TwilioHackathon 2020 chat bot app

A chat bot that connects people who submit confessions with people who answer them.

See the post on DEV.

PostgreSQL runs on alwaysdata. Node server runs on render.

Deployment

• You need an underlying Twilio Autopilot that uses endpoints in index.js.
  • Support for Autopilot will be discontinued on February 25, 2023, and the product will no longer be accessible starting August 25, 2023.
• After integrating the Autopilot with WhatsApp, set SENDER environment variable.
• Create a PostgreSQL database and set DATABASE_URL environment variable.

Overall, you need to specify the following environment variables:

TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=************************
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=*************************
SENDER=whatsapp:+123456789
DATABASE_URL=postgres://**********