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Hey Rees! Hope you're doing well.

I recently launched an "App Store" of sorts for GroupMe bots, which you can check out at https://mebots.io. Like you, I built GroupMe bots as a fun project, but became frustrated with the limitations of GroupMe's bot infrastructure. As you know, GroupMe has no straightforward way to manage a bot across multiple groups. The simple system of maintaining a constant bot ID and only running bots in one group places serious limits on how useful GroupMe bots can ever be, and leaves GroupMe lagging behind other platforms like Discord in this area.

So, I developed the bot management and indexing system GroupMe has been missing (and massively upgraded it in recent weeks). MeBots provides a simple API that you can integrate your bot with easily (I even made a node package for it). All you need to do is add an API call (demonstrated in this example repo) to get the bot ID that corresponds with the group a message came from, and then use that bot ID (instead of an env var) to send a reply back to GroupMe. That's all that's needed on your side, and with that implemented, anyone will be able to go to https://mebots.io/bot/opbot and click just a couple buttons to add the bot to their own groups.

I would love to see your work on MeBots, which would no doubt expose your great work to more people! One of my bots that I created as a joke several years ago blew up once I launched it on MeBots and now has over 225 groups and thousands of people using it—I wouldn't be surprised if the same happened to yours, since it's a fairly versatile and publicly appealing bot. I am happy to help with the integration process and anything else that would be useful. Just let me know.

Appreciate the consideration, and have a great week! :)