Indeed,
I've been wanting to start a bot of my own, but realize its a bit more of a financial commitment then I have available at this time. .
Thanks for this info though! I've looked around a bit for more and there's really only a few select sources available on bots. As the community is very bipolar it seems on them.
Thought theory: What do you think will be the next evolution of bots here on steemit?
Yeah, it can be quite the investment unless you know you are able to acquire delegation. And I'm not really sure what the future of bots will be her on Steemit. I really see upvote bots as not really bots.. but promotional tools. And I've seen a lot of other applications being built on Steemit to provide similar opportunities. I know there's one app that just launched which serves as a social media management service for big accounts on Steemit. Sort of like an ad agency of sorts.
We're really in the wild west here on the Steem blockchain and the sky is the limit. All of these developers and programmers are really shaping the community for what it will become.