imrobotmaker's comments

On: Window Pong

[imrobotmaker]

Please remove this link. The link points to a porn website. How can this get through HN ?

[a-priori → imrobotmaker]

Eh? Worked as advertised for me, no porn.

[huhtenberg → a-priori]

No porn, but didn't work as advertised.

It wanted to pop up four windows and then it wanted to move them around my desktop ... jeez, I almost felt sorry for it :)

[fharper1961 → imrobotmaker]

It sent me to a windows pong game...

On: How to monetize this AIM robot idea ?

[imrobotmaker]

Thanks for your advice. At work I do tech support so I create an AIM bot that gave people quick answers to the most frequently asked questions. It was menu based and everyone in the company loves the bot, I also included a company directory , we have over 200 employees and remembering everyone's extension or even email addresses was difficult so I built a company directory using AIM.

thank you for all the ideas you are giving me.

On: Ask YC: What do you scrape? How do you scrape?

[imrobotmaker]

I use curl, wget and links to retrieve data from sites and then I filter it with old sed and grep.

I created a mashup of AIM + Flicker.

If you use AIM 6 or AIM lite send a message to MyPictureBuddy

then send a message and enjoy.

basically You type a keyword and it gots to flicker and retrieves image information to display pictures right inside your AIM chat session.

I also have another Bot that parses HackerNews XML and then display it on the chat session. The bot name is

HackerNewsYC