Generate reaction message that can be easily copied

[gauthsvenkat]

First of all, loving this bot. I'm getting hits much faster than other paid alternatives!

One feature I'm missing is the ability to copy a personal reaction message to a listing that I can submit along with my application.

If this is in the scope of this program, let me know, and I'd love to work on this feature. Any tips on where to start are also welcome.

(Also, how do I easily set up a local development environment? I'm trying to docker compose up and it is unsuccessful as I don't have pull access)

[wtfloris]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion! But I'm not sure I understand the added value instead of just copying this from your notes app or something like that. Would you have like a template in which you dynamically put the address? Let me know what you have in mind.

You can use the build.sh script to build and set up the image (it's not publicly available, just built locally): ./build.sh -y

[gauthsvenkat]

But I'm not sure I understand the added value instead of just copying this from your notes app or something like that

Yeah, ofc you can have a template and manually fill in the response letter yourself. But why waste precious seconds when you can be reacting to apartments 😉 .

Jokes aside, you're right; it is a "luxury" feature, but I think would be a nice QoL improvement.

Would you have like a template in which you dynamically put the address?

Yeah, exactly what I had in mind.

[gauthsvenkat]

Hey @wtfloris, can you add instructions on how to set up and run Hestia locally?

I built the image locally using ./build.sh -y and run into errors (on all containers).
The main one seems like the PostgreSQL container fails with

Error: Database is uninitialized and superuser password is not specified.
       You must specify POSTGRES_PASSWORD to a non-empty value for the
       superuser. For example, "-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password" on "docker run".

       You may also use "POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust" to allow all
       connections without a password. This is *not* recommended.

       See PostgreSQL documentation about "trust":
       https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-trust.html

Not quite sure what the right way is to set up a password, since we're using compose and not docker run.

In general, I'm trying to figure out how to set up a local instance so I can develop the feature I'm talking about as a PoC.

Thanks!

[gauthsvenkat]

I've put together a rough draft of how such a feature could look like in #88.

I couldn't test this myself as I can't host, but I did manage to test the two main functions (setresponse and showresponse) in a sandbox.

It would require a change to the db schema though, but I can't seem to figure out a way around that.

Let me know if you have any comments about this.