This week I saw a tweet suggesting a joke bot and decided to see if I could make it a reality. In about an hour I was able to make a simple version of the idea in a website but unfortunately not a bot.

The idea came from this Tweet saying ‘bot idea: “you’ve heard of elf on a shelf, now get ready for” and then it puts a random transparent image on top of a random image of a scene’. This idea struck me because it was similar to an existing app I made called Scene Creator that had random characters float over a random background. In about an hour, I was able to use pieces from that app to create the joke website here.

It is a simple Angular site on GitHub Pages. Not much to look at, but it was fun to create a spontaneous project that people actually checked out and enjoyed. This would be really remarkable if I could make it into a Twitter Bot, but I have no idea how to get a bot to create html images (or any images). I’ll have to investigate that in the future.