Overview

Meya provides a suite of tools, components and flows that help you build a bot that can execute tasks or say things on a defined schedule. Meya supports the following scheduling features:

Features

1. Delays: Add a relative or absolute delay between state transitions or bot utterances. This can be short (a few seconds for UX), or longer (minutes, hours, days, ..) if your use-case calls for it
2. Periodic flows: Start a periodic schedule (see meya.schedule) that executes any one of your flows on a schedule using intervals or cron syntax. You can stop already running flows using the bot or the Web development environment.
3. Rate limits: prevent runaway loops, bad actors, or malicious behavior

Use-cases

1. Bot builder wants to delay a series of messages for a few seconds for a better UX.
2. Bot delays a message to a pre-defined point in the future (> than a few seconds):
   1. relative time (in 1 hour)
   2. absolute time (at 2pm tomorrow)
   3. these times can be hardcoded or read from datastore.
3. User subscribes a series of 1 or more recurring events. Examples: 1) receive updates throughout a basketball game using polling, 2) get morning updates from a blog, 3) provide daily summary of some statistics or reports, 4) allow for complex schedules using polling

Try out an example periodic bot: https://meya.ai/affirmationbot

..or view it's source code: github/affirmationbot