200k sats lol. That's insane.
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Sounds like you need to find someone that values their time less than you value the bots existing!
I'll just live without it lol. But I think stuff like this makes nostr a better place culturally but I definitely don't care enough to pay that much for it lolol. I have no skin in the nostr game and I barely have a job. Would be mad of me to pay lolol
Crowdfund maybe. I'd throw 1k ϟ at a good bot
Don't worry, I've stopped caring now lolol
writing bots isn't that hard to learn either, if you have some reasonable experience. but you won't be able to do much complicated before a few months of tinkering. it really depends on how accessible the protocol the bot has to speak is, and how well you know that protocol's support in your chosen language.
the hard part is not the chatter but what it computes for you. databases and statistical analytics are not so easy to grasp at first.
I have no experience lol. It's fine, I just thought it would be cool..but the price doesn't match how much I care and how much money I can throw at something just for fun lol:)
I imagine it's 2-3 hours of their time, up front and ongoing... what do I know. Does seem high I guess. Maybe 100k
my pay grade is what your estimate says, and i build servers, it's about lower-middling in that range, can be up to nearly twice that in some places, or for specific, uncommon types of work