[Suggestion] Reddit Mention Bot

[webchick]

Short description

Suggestion from @tomwheeler :

Create a reddit bot that sends you an email with links to posts that mention a specific topic of interest (such as the name of your favorite band) that were added in the past N minutes/hours/days. Bonus points: Use Temporal Schedules to make it run at fixed intervals.

Existing material

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[forbiddencoding]

Hi everyone!

I'd like to put forward my approach/solution to this suggestion.

It has the following features:

• Users can create schedules to receive email notifications for new Reddit posts
• Users specify a keyword and subreddits for filtering posts
• Users can set multiple recipients
• Utilizes Temporal Schedules for user defined schedules
• Utilizes Temporal Child-Workflows with Continue-as-New for fetching and paginating posts over multiple subreddits

You can find the project repository here: https://github.com/forbiddencoding/reddit-post-notifier

The project is a modular monolith written in Go, and it exposes a REST API for creating and managing schedules. There's also a web frontend available here for a more convenient interaction.

I hope this fits the suggestion and is a good demonstration for various Temporal features.

Looking forward to your thoughts!