Standup Bot 🤖

Discord bot for Scrum daily standups

How-To:

Test out locally

• visit https://discord.com/developers/applications
• New Application -> Enter name
• Bot -> Add Bot
• Reveal and copy discord bot token
• copy .env.sample into .env file
• Set discord bot token into .env and run docker-compose up
• OAuth2 -> choose bot scope -> choose permissions: Manage Channels, View Channels, Send Messages, Read Messages
• Copy that link and use it to invite bot into your own personal discord server

Disclaimer:

This bot is not meant to replace your daily standups outright. It is more of a helper for your meetings. Instead of spending time going around asking the same questions everyday, time can be reserved for more important non-repetitive discussion and help.

Initial Setup

Click Here to add the bot to your server. You'll need to fill in YOUR_CLIENT_ID with your bots client id.

Note that the above requires you to have the Manage Server permission in this server

The bot will then create an entry in the MongoDB database for the server, create the text channel #daily-standups and send an introduction.

Warning: if the bot does not have a valid MongoDB connection when it joins the server, you will have to kick it and re-invite it.

Commands

The prefix for this bot is !

Name	Description	Usage	Server or DM
help	Shows all commands	!help [optional command name]	both
list	List of all members participating in the standup	!list	Server
am	Adds a new member to the standup	!am @<user> @<optional_user> ...	Server
rm	Removes a member from the standup	!rm @<user> @<optional_user> ...	Server
reset	Resets the standup	!reset	Server	Use with caution, resets everything
show	Shows standup prompt	!show	both
reply	Reply to standup prompt	!reply @<optional_serverId> [message]	DM	optional_server_id: for multiple standups
view	View your standup response	!view @<optional_serverId>	DM	optional_server_id: for multiple standups

Usage

Standup time is set to 10:00:00 PM CST every weekday

Anytime before the standup time, added members must DM the bot with the reply followed by their message. The bot will then upload this response to the database.
Come standup time, the bot will create an Embed with all collected member responses and will include a Hooligans section with mentions of members who did not participate.
This message will be posted to #daily-standups.

After the message has been posted, the bot will delete all member responses, thus members will have to DM for the next standup.

Made with

• Discord.js and node-schedule for cron jobs
• MongoDB with mongoose
• Heroku for hosting
• ❤️

Screenshots 📸

Text channel creation and initial message on join (1920x1080)

Private messaging bot with commands (1920x1080)

Daily standup message example with hooligans (1920x1080)