Bapcsbot is Retiring

After 6 years I’ve decided to retire BapcsBot. It started as a project while I was learning programming, and I decided to keep it running on an old MacBook with a cracked screen all this time.

It mostly ran on its own, but anyone who has worked with software knows that something unexpected will eventually cause your app to fail, so every few months I’d need to restart the “server”, make a small bugfix, or add new recognized products to stay up to date.

Hopefully someone out there can create a replacement (and likely a much better one). I think it’s a pretty solid project for someone learning to code, and it taught me a good deal about software resiliency and dealing with nonsense user inputs (that’s you guys). I’ve always thought it would be cool to back the bot by a simple website rather than Reddit messages, so maybe one of you can do that

Good luck,

BapcsBot