On: Hours

[maroonblazer]

If I knew how to write bots this would be a fun side project: Create a virtual partner.

The domain seems narrow enough that it would be feasible to put together something effective enough to achieve the desired effect - focus.

I'm a hobbyist developer so am probably underestimating the effort.

[RankingMember → maroonblazer]

The power of this technique is that there's a real person on the other side.

[mifreewil → maroonblazer]

lot of tools these days to create bots without a lot of effort. slackbot was mentioned, check out google's dialogflow

[gumby → maroonblazer]

You could write a small slackbot.