ksaitor

Hey HN! I decided to geek out and build a simple telegram bot that would help people (individually and in chat groups) search and get notified about latest jobs in the blockchain industry.

You can play with it here https://t.me/cryptojobslistbot

> A brief overview of its modest functions.

In private mode (when you are messaging the bot directly):

  - do `/start`
  - then just type any keyword to search for it. E.g. `developer`
  - you can also filter by location, by typing in `developer in singapore` or `marketing in new york`
  - you can also filter remote jobs by typing `remote` or `remote developer`. That should work

In group setting (when you add the bot to your chat group):

  - do initiate it by typing `/search@CryptoJobsListBot`
  - further on, you should be able to just type `/s developer` or `/s developer in new york` or
  any of the abovementioned commands, but with `/s ` prefix and get your results.

I have not built that many chatbots before, so not sure what are the best practices are. What features could be useful? What can I improve?

Hi HN,

Like many of you, I found myself discovering dozens of great posts on HN and never actually finding the time read them. I used to save every cool link to Pocket, but… well… same story — I rarely found the time to read them.

So I thought it'd be great to listen to the top articles, the same way I listen to podcasts. Initially, I tried out narrating articles with latest text-to-speech synthesis from Amazon and Google, but it was still pretty bad. Especially with long form content. So I thought I'll do this with real humans, real voice actors. So I made ReadByHumans. [1]

We are starting out by narrating top articles from HN and some longer cryptocurrency white-papers. Giving away 3 top articles from last week and we’ll be sending one more audio article weekly.

In future and at scale, we’d love to narrate any article or a document, on demand and with only a few hours turnaround time.

Would love your feedback! What type of content would you like us to narrate? Is it easy to access the podcast feed?

Thanks!

[1] https://readbyhumans.com