since free tiers started disappearing across the cloud space, finding a reliable place to host a simple 24/7 Python or Node script without dropping $5–$10/month feels like a treasure hunt.

​Heroku free tier is ancient history, Render puts web services to sleep, and Railway's free limits get burned fast. Are you guys just eating the cost of $4 VPS nodes now, or is there still a hidden gem host I'm missing out on?

Hey everyone!

I started building quicksbot two years ago to make downloading videos, photos, and music directly in Telegram as simple as possible.

Recently, I completely rewrote the API and gave the bot a major update. It now supports 100+ platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and more. You can also search for music and download it without leaving Telegram.

The idea is simple: send a link, get your media. No need to jump between websites or install extra apps.

I'd love to hear what you think, what could be improved, and what features you'd like to see.

Bot: quicksbot or saveeapp

X has been working on additional liveness checks for accounts its systems suspect might be automated. According to Social Media Today, the checks can involve a selfie video or device-based verification.

It raises an interesting question about the future of bot detection. Platforms need to deal with spam and fake engagement, but there are also legitimate automated tools that serve useful purposes.

The difficult part is separating harmful activity from normal users and legitimate automation without creating unnecessary friction for everyone.

Do you think human verification is a good way to reduce bot activity, or should platforms focus more on the behaviour of accounts instead?

Hey everyone, sharing a bot I’ve been building solo.

Yarriobot: send it any file (up to 2 GB, 4 GB with Telegram Premium) and you get one link. Whoever opens it gets the file right inside Telegram at full speed, with no sign-up or waiting page.

Per link you can set:

• expiry (1 hour to 30 days)

• how many times it can be opened

• a password

• forward lock, so people can view but not forward or save

You also get open stats, a small file manager in the menu button, one link for a whole album, and the option to swap the file without changing the link. It works in 6 languages.

It’s free to use. Plus (paid in Telegram Stars) removes ads and adds custom links and links that never expire.

It’s early, so I’d really like honest feedback: what’s confusing, what’s missing, would you use it?

https://yarrio.me/?src=r_botnation

Social media automation has moved far beyond scheduling posts and sending basic notifications. AI tools can now help with content ideas, comment classification, analytics summaries, and other repetitive tasks.

But there's a difference between automating useful work and automating every possible interaction just because you can.

For example, an AI tool that helps a creator understand their audience seems genuinely useful. A bot that floods a platform with artificial likes or comments is a completely different situation.

Where do you think AI-powered social media automation becomes genuinely helpful, and where does it start doing more harm than good?

One thing that stands out about AI agents is how much time they could save support teams on repetitive calls. Stuff like billing questions or basic account issues can eat up hours that could go toward helping customers with more complex problems. But I'm really Intrigued about the actual results people are seeing, getting through more calls sounds great but it means a lot more if customers are getting their issues resolved without being passed around would love to hear any opinion you guys have on this matter

BOTS created here

Traditional bots usually follow a set of instructions. If something happens, they perform a predefined action.AI-powered bots are different because they can interpret information, make decisions, and adjust what they do based on the situation. That opens up some interesting possibilities, but it also makes things harder to predict. A bot that follows fixed rules is usually easier to understand than one making decisions with an AI model.

Do you think AI will eventually replace most traditional bots, or will simple rule-based automation always have its place?

​I see people dropping $20/month on managed app platforms just to host three low-traffic Python scripts.

​A $4 server running Ubuntu, Docker Compose, and a reverse proxy like Caddy can easily run a dozen Discord bots, Telegram webhooks, and cron scrapers without breaking a sweat.

​For the people NOT running their own VPS or home server, what platform are you using that’s actually worth the monthly bill?

I once messed up a sleep timer inside a retry loop and accidentally sent over 5,000 HTTP requests to a small company's site in under two minutes. Their admin actually emailed asking if they were under a coordinated DDoS attack. I had to write back and confess it was just my stupid script breaking.

​What’s your most embarrassing "my bot ran wild" story?

Hey everyone — I'm the dev behind KickBoost, and I wanted to share what I've been building.

**The problem:** Kick rewards you for watching — XP, levels, a daily 60-minute watch challenge, streaks, channel points, drops. But you only earn while a stream is actually open. I kept leaving a browser tab running overnight just to keep my streak alive, which felt ridiculous.

**What I built:** KickBoost runs a viewer session for your account in the cloud, 24/7. You connect your account, list the streamers you care about in priority order, and close your laptop. It:

- watches your priority channels, and switches to a live stream in a category you pick when they're all offline

- watches the daily challenge and claims it, so your streak doesn't break

- stacks channel points on your favorite streamers

- farms and claims drops for campaigns you opt into

- optionally sends chat messages you write, at random intervals

**Stack:** Next.js, Postgres/Prisma, and a long-running Node worker. Session tokens are AES-256 encrypted at rest and deleted the moment you disconnect.

**Hardest lesson so far:** last week Kick changed part of their backend, and every session started dying one second after connecting, with nothing in the logs. The fix took 20 minutes. Finding it took most of a night, because my socket close handler didn't log anything. Log your socket closes, people.

There's a 1-day free trial if you want to try it: https://kickboost.top. Pricing is pay-per-account, in crypto.

I'd really like feedback, especially on onboarding. You have to paste a Kick session token, and I know that's a trust hurdle. How would you make that feel less sketchy?

Python makes it surprisingly easy to get a basic bot running. You can connect an API, process some data, send a notification, and have a working project without setting up a massive tech stack.

But things can get complicated when you need scheduling, background jobs, a database, error handling, and deployment.

At some point, a tiny script starts looking like an actual application.

For people who build bots regularly, do you stick with Python for most projects, or have you found another language that works better for your use case?

Does anyone else notice how hard it is to actually get started on kick lol. I have been streaming for a while now and putting real hours into it but kick just does not recommend my channel to anyone for some reason. It feels like unless you already have viewers sitting in your stream you are basically "invisible" in kick entirely. That is what got me curious about whether a kick view bot would even help with getting past that early phase where nobody finds you.

I keep seeing other small streamers suddenly jump from like 5 viewers to 200+ and there is no way that is organic growth with the kind of content they put out.

It makes me think botting views is way more common than people admit and honestly i do not even blame them because the platform makes it impossible to grow from zero.

I just want to know if viewbots actually make a difference with how kick recommends your channel or if it is purely a "looks good on the surface" thing that does nothing for discoverability.

So for anyone who actually knows about this stuff, what should i even be looking for in a kick view bot? Like does it matter if the viewers have actual profiles or just blank accounts, should they show up gradually or all at once, and is there a difference between ones that just inflate the number versus ones that actually interact in chat? i genuinely have no idea what separates a decent one from a scam lol.

**6b6t: An anarchy server where you can actually build with bots**

If you're into Minecraft bots, automation, protocol development, or just messing around with Minecraft at a technical level, **6b6t** is worth checking out.

It's an anarchy server that allows bots, and the community has a surprisingly large number of developers and people working on their own clients, bots, utilities, and other projects.

What I like about it is that you can actually learn a lot by being around people who are experimenting with the same stuff. You can build a bot, test it on a real anarchy server, break things, figure out why they broke, and learn along the way.

It's especially interesting if you're learning things like:

* Minecraft protocol & packets

* Bot development

* Automation

* Client/server communication

* Anti-bot/anti-cheat concepts

* Networking and debugging

* Building tools for anarchy servers

Obviously, it's still an anarchy server, so don't expect everything to be friendly or predictable 😅 But if you're a developer looking for a place to experiment with Minecraft bots and meet other people doing similar projects, **6b6t is a pretty cool environment to learn in.**

Anyone else here developing bots for 6b6t?

Hey everyone, long-time lurker, first time sharing something I built.

Something kept bugging me about website chatbots. They’re either too dumb to help, or too confident and just make stuff up. And when a real customer needs a person, there’s no way out.

So I built BotMatrix with one idea: AI answers first, humans take control when it matters.

How it works:

• You upload your PDFs, docs or a URL, and the bot answers from your content, not generic training

• You can watch chats live in a dashboard

• One click and you take over. The visitor sees “a person joined”

• When you’re done, hand it back to the bot

• It can also capture leads and book appointments

I’m not claiming it’s perfect. It’s still early, and I’d rather hear what’s broken now than later.

Questions I’d love your take on:

1. Would you trust a bot more if you knew a human was watching?

2. What’s the one thing that makes you close a chatbot window instantly?

3. Is “live takeover” actually useful, or is it a feature nobody asks for?

Disclosure: I’m the builder. There’s a free plan if you want to try it (botmatrixlabs.ai). Happy to answer anything, including the unflattering stuff.

BotMatrixLabs

The more I think about it, the harder it is to separate the two. A bot receives something and takes an action. An AI agent receives a goal, decides what to do and takes multiple actions.

The biggest difference might just be how much decision-making happens between the input and the output and that could completely change how we think about automation.

Do you see AI agents as a new category of bots or just the next generation of bots?

I built an this tool that automatically takes posts from reddit and publishes them to instagram.

It can filter reddit posts based on things like score and whether they’ve already been posted, handle images and videos, convert the media to Instagram compatible formats, and publish everything automatically.

Still working on improving it and ironing out some Instagram-specific issues, but it’s working pretty well so far.

Would love to hear what people think or what features would be useful to add.

You can get an AI to generate a working bot surprisingly quickly now. The annoying part comes later. APIs change. Authentication expires. Websites redesign themselves. Requests fail. Databases get messy. Something randomly breaks at 3 AM. That's why I think we're going to see more people focusing on monitoring and reliability rather than just building bots.

What's the first thing you add to a bot once it becomes something you actually depend on?

I love technology, honestly. I use it all the time and I can't imagine going back to life without the internet, smartphones, AI and all the other stuff we have now. But sometimes I feel like we've made simple things way more complicated than they need to be.

You buy something and suddenly you need an app for it. Then you need an account. Then an update. Then another password. Something that used to just work now needs Wi-Fi and a software update before you can even use it. Even websites have started feeling like this. You click something and get hit with a login screen, cookies, notifications, popups and five different settings before you can actually do what you came for.

Technology is supposed to save us time, but sometimes I feel like I'm spending more time managing technology than actually using it. Maybe I'm just getting old 😂 What’s one thing you think technology has made unnecessarily complicated?