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by ciferkey 2866 days ago
Very exciting! I made a simple bot to scrape lunch specials menus off Instagram and post them to my company's slack (http://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/projects/2018/05/07/Soup-Bot...).

One point point was making custom lambas to spin up/down the DB and everything that was needed to use it (a NAT on EC2, and an elastic IP since the default NAT aww provides is pricey). The bot only needs to run for an hour on weekdays so there's no point keeping everything running 24/7. Excited to try replacing all of that with this!