Silicon Valley Hacks Discord Bot

A simple bot for managing an online hackathon over Discord. It can be deployed using Heroku entirely in the free-tier. All data is persisted in a Redis instance to ensure maximum efficiency give the small amount of data.

Features

The features include reporting, team management, and mentor requests. All commands are prefixed with ~ and can be accessed in any channel that the bot has read access.

Command List

• Team Management
  • ~join <team number>
  • ~leave <team_number>
• Mentor Requests
  • ~mentor request <description>, [<link>]
  • ~mentor list
  • ~mentor complete <id>
• Reporting
  • ~report <message>
  • ~emergency [<message>]
• Administrator
  • ~shutdown

Deployment

While being able to run entirely on the Heroku free-tier, you can also run it on your own server. All configuration is done through environment variables. The .env.example can be used as reference.

Heroku

Custom

1. Have a Redis instance running that is accessible by the project
2. Build the Rust project with cargo build --release
3. Copy it to your server
4. Configure your .env file using .env.example as reference

Contributing

1. Fork the repo
2. Make your changes
3. Format with rustfmt
4. Make a pull request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, which can be found in the LICENSE.md file.