If you’ve got a Charlie Brown Christmas tree in need of some love and decoration, then check out DIY Bot for some last-minute ornament ideas. The projects range from the brilliantly easy, like configuring Scrabble tiles into festive messages (pictured above), to more complex ones, like a reindeer and Christmas tree inside a bottle. Same basic idea as a ship in bottle, but much easier!
Just in time for the holidays, here are the five most popular bots this past week, as they appear on Botlist. Give them a try and let us know what you think.
5. Ainstein
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Ainstein tracks your progress and preferences and helps you learn more efficiently from the best eLearning platforms out there, such as; Treehouse, Egghead, Frontendmasters, Khanacademy etc. Best of all — the more you learn, the smarter he gets
Ainstein helps you to build a habit of getting shit done
It’s just a beginning and we are working very hard. Soon Ainstein will have the following features:
Daily Q&As on a topic of your interest, so you can prove yourself that you are doing well with the particular subject.
Daily Tips&Tricks on a topic of your interest.
Available on Messenger
4. DIY Bot
Find bright ideas and DIY tutorials for home decor, fashion projects, kid-friendly activities and Beauty DIY. Some ideas are famous while others are lesser-known treasures. Visit every one and get outstanding tutorials and ideas that rock!
Available on Messenger
3. Trivia Blast
The game is simple!
1. Play the Bot: Choose a topic and answer 7 questions.
2. Climb the ranks to become the Top Player in the world: Each good answer scores 1 point. The user in the world with the more points is the ultimate winner.
3. Make Friends: Chat and Challenge the Top Players in a super fun browser game experience. Play with tons of quizzes and topics: General Knowledge, Kpop, Movies, Technology, Sports, Literature, 90s and more!
Available on Messenger
2. INSDRbot
INSDRbot is a simple service that allows you to subscribe for daily updates on your stocks Insider activity.
Available on Messenger
1. GanePay
GanePay combines the peer-to-peer money transferability of Venmo with instant in-store spending through mainstream NFC Tap & Pay services like Apple Pay. Add in the effortless coupon redemption and you have a real game changer.
Send and receive money. Pay instantly at 1000’s of merchants. Discover, share and collect exclusive deals. GanePay is everything you have been looking for in one beautiful place, your phone.
The GanePay bots allow you to view your account activity, share the offers that you have collected, and send money and gift cards to your friends.
For Messenger, say hello to Gane and you’ll get the options to 1) Check your balance, 2) See recent account activity, and 3) See and share offers and gift cards. Messenger bot currently in Beta
For iMessage, click the app store icon next to text entry and select Gane, then you’ll get the options to add Gane to your conversation by 1) Sending money and gift cards, or 2) Share offers.
Available on Android, iMessage, iOS, Messenger
Popularity of the top 5 bots on Botlist is based on web traffic to individual bots’ pages appearing on the site, which currently lists more than 11,000 bots. The bot directory says it receives more than 200 submissions each week and tests their purpose, functionality, content, and overall quality before accepting them. This week’s rankings were for the period December 12-18, 2016.
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