Bots are pretty much a big part of the hive ecosystem. They are everywhere here and you've most likely gotten a vote from one of them.
But if you venture out into the world of Discord, you'll see quite a few bots. I've made a few of them and let's talk about my favorites of them.
The first one I want to talk about is the SBI lookup bot. Instead of needing to do !sbi status on chain, I made a bot that lets you lookup your SBI info right in the SBI discord channel. Pretty useful, and it keeps spam off the chain as well. Who doesn't like that? I'm quite proud of that one, as it works quite well. Now SBI units are incorporated in the PeakD wallet so you can view it there.
I'm also behind the On-Demand-Boosting bot in SBI. That one's based off my Votefun. Votefun is used in quite a few other servers(that I know of, there might be even more that I don't know of since its open source and has got a pretty good guide on how to get started with it). This one works on both hive and steem at once and I like that. While the workaround I used for it was quite stupid(hey if it works, it works), it does the job and it does it quite well so who's complaining?
There's also the hidden GiftGiver bot in the discord server. While this is something that not everyone is going to see, and even less people are going to interact with, it's going to be a good start to
's curation, once I get around to setting that up. Right now curation with giftgiver isn't done so I can focus on improving the faucet and incorporating something new to it(should be out soon, users of it will definitely like it).
I'm testing out with this post. Let's see how it goes. Here's a post with info on them: @buytopics/want-to-sell-your-writing-to-us-on-hive. I set them as 100% beneficiary and they pay me the predetermined amount for my next post. As shown by this post: @buytopics/re-buytopics-q99e32, I was offered 10.5 HIVE for this post.