While Heroku isn’t the only kid on the block, it’s one of the most popular, between the ease of getting a new server up and running and the fact that it’s free tier supports running a single bot server 24/7 (after validating a credit card and without running anything else). They support a wide variety of services like running a Node.js server or spinning up a new Postgres database.

Heroku is a platform that allows developers to deploy apps to the cloud. This can include info about the host, the guest, simple shortcuts for links, or even some kind of game that let’s the audience interact with the stream.īut either way, that bot ultimately gets deployed to a server where it “lives” and can actively keep running, listening to that Twitch stream, which is where Heroku comes in.

Part of the fun with chat bots, whether for Twitch or any other platform (like Discord), is these bots can be used to provide more interaction and self-help for the stream. It can also be used as a mechanism to regularly send updates to the chat, such as if you wanted to help update the audience about the stream or if you wanted to promote something every so often. That chat bot is essentially a server that’s hosted somewhere on the internet, that will “listen” to the chat, reading each message, and trying to understand it, to determine whether or not it needs to take action on that message or respond. If you’ve spent some time watching some Twitch streams, you may have noticed users posting with the word “bot” in their name or some sort of automated system that could be used for anything from ads to custom commands.

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