Fascinated by the beings that roamed this Earth million of years ago and dismayed by the lack of due interest. We present you- Dinocord!
Dinocord is a discord bot for aspiring paleontologists and pre-historic enthusiasts. With many fun features and useful tools. this powerful #1 bot for all of your dino needs! It has the following features:
- Sends dinosaur memes!
- Myths vs Facts game: the user is prompted with text and they have to guess if it's a myth or a fact
- Dinosaur fact: enlightens you with a random dinosaur fact
- Classification: used AutoML to return the class of prehistoric species when the user uploads an image
- Search engine: Helps the users find info about prehistoric and dinosaur
- Used HTML, CSS, JS, and Bootstrap to create the homepage
- We used the Discord.js package to create a discord bot with Node.js
- Used Google Cloud Platform's AutoML to implement the classification model
- Uses 0Auth for authentication
- Used CockroachDB for storing user details
- Used Google Cloud Platform to deploy our hack
- Couldn't integrate the AutoML with the bot
- Getting our dataset was a long and tedious job
- We had trouble limiting the search engine only to pre-historic facts
- We were stuck with the deployment of our app
- Happy to get our bot working and deployed
- Created a homepage with a beautiful UI
- Implemented most of our features
- Learned how to use GCP's tools and deployment
- Used CockroachDB for the first time
- Learned and used Discord.js library
- Learned about dinosaurs and the prehistoric age!
We have the following plans for the future:
- Add a user rating system
- Implement Encryption
- Add more text-based games
- Do aesthetic changes to the bot
- More dinosaurs!
- Improve the ML model
- Make the necessary UI/UX changes to the frontend
- Add a chatbot for the homepage
- Add a customer support functionality