Urbit Alpha Chatbot

Get crypto charts in your Urbit channels instantly. Current state: POC.

Development: How to set up

This bot is designed to run on a moon. You may want to run it persistently on your server of choice. Additionally, you will need to have Rust installed.

1. Copy .env-example into .env and add your own AWS credentials. You'll need an S3 bucket with public read permissions and a IAM user with permissions to write to that bucket. S3 is used to store images of charts.
2. On your first cargo run the app will create a demo ship_config.yaml file. Fill that file with info about the ship you want to use for the bot (can be a moon) .
3. On your second cargo run the app should connect to the moon and start listening for messages.
4. To accept payments make sure that bitcoin-wallet is configured to a working provider node.

I needed to invite the moon to a channel so I can issue the commands.

The commands

Similar to Alpha Bot on Discord, you can write c <symbol> <timeframe> and get a screenshot of a TradingView chart.

TODO

Current phase

• Non crypto exchanges
• Open image without prompting download
• Spawn chatbots in any chat
• Help menu
• Helpful errors
• Add welcome message (this means listening for invites to groups & joining channels)
• Clean up the code

Next phase

• Add tests (?)
• Accept payments
• Build out premium features (?)
• Optimize bot reply time – currently takes up to 10 sec

Conceptual

• Figure out cloud hosting
• Figure out S3 costs (maybe automatic cleanup of images older than 1 month?)
• Figure out a proper roadmap

Bugs

• c btcusd 1mo: doens't show enough history (binance)