Butt as a Service

what if everyone had a friend in the bot family?

Butt as a Service helps you provision and monitor Scuttlebutt bots in the cloud.

business

most people seem happy to pay $5 / month.

if we prove a successful value flow, we can scale the ecosystem of Scuttlebutt bot providers, in order to support the ecosystem of Scuttlebutt organizers.

job stories

• when i want to start a bot,
  • if i haven't been here before: i can register, setup a monthly payment, and name my first bot
  • if i have been here before: i can sign in
• when i come home, i can see a dashboard for my bots
• when i want to monitor a bot, i can see visual data about the pub service
• when i want to update the bot's status, i can stop or restart my bot
• when i want to update the bot's code, i can upgrade or rebuild from the bot's source
• when i want to export a bot, i can retrieve my secret, gossip, log, or blobs

design

landing

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=  butt.nz
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[start]

start

----------------
v start        x
----------------
- email
- password

[yes]

newbie

----------------
v newbie        x
----------------
welcome!

- name
- payment
- bot
  - name

[yes]

dashboad

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=  butt.nz
----------------
- [my.butt.nz] #alive
- [your.butt.nz] #alive

bot: actions

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=  your.butt.nz #alive
----------------
[**actions**] | [status] | [invites]

- [invite]
- [restart]
- [stop]
- [upgrade]
- [rebuild]
- [export]
- [delete]

bot: status

----------------
=  your.butt.nz #alive
----------------
[actions] | [**status**] | [invites]

status: alive
uptime: 100 days
disk usage: 10 GiB
bandwidth usage: 100GiB
memory usage: 100 MiB

bot: invites

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=  your.butt.nz #alive
----------------
[actions] | [status | [**invites**]

- used
  - alice: ...
  - bob: ...
- unused
  - carol: ...
  - dan: ...
  - eve: ...

data

agent

• type
• name
• description
• service

belongs

• sourceAgentId
• targetAgentId

services

• public http server
  • /authentication/sign-in
  • /authentication/register
  • /agents
• private http server
  • /agents
• each person agent has many bot agents
• for each person agent, run
  • cloud compute
  • cloud storage
• for each bot agent, run
  • for each pub
    • docker service

modules

• public http server
  • feathers
  • feathers-authentication
• private http server
  • feathers
• cloud provider: scaleway
• cloud orchestration: saltstack
  • get config: salt.pillar.http_json.ext_pillar