There are hundreds of thousands of people around the world with social anxiety and difficulties in handling social situations. I did this project to help people practice their communication skills in a safe and comfortable environment.
Note: this project was done for a Russian audience, so all messages in the bot are written in Cyrillic. However, all notes and comments in the code are in English.
I created a Takie telegram bot to help people practice their communication skills.
After a short questionnaire, you will be offered to learn a little bit about how communication works. For this purpose, I created a website and posted articles on the topic. The site no longer exists because the project is frozen. But I did a few screenshots to show you the idea.
When you read the theory and get some advice bot will offer you to arrange a meeting with another user of the bot to practice your skills in an online meeting with some interesting tasks. And that is the key: you practice your communication skills in a safe environment with a person who is also interested in the topic and do some tasks created by the psychologist supervisor.
To create the bot I used the aiogram library - asynchronous Telegram API library written over asyncio.
To store the data I used SQLite database and SQLite3 python library (note: this was my very first python project, so database structure and logic are written very poorly. Now I see it 😅).
Handlers All message handlers are stored in /handlers directory. They are divided by bot modules and menus.
Midlewares There is only one middleware that helps to run online support chat with the admin of the bot right in the bot interface.
algorithm.py There is an algorithm that matches users into pairs every day at 7 p.m. Idea is to first match users with a smaller amount of available matches, then users this lots of matches. So everybody will have a pair.
app.py Runs bot, and scheduler and creates a database
loader.py Defines the key entities of the bot
bot_commands.py Set the user's command for the bot
config.py Gets credentials from .env
keyboards.py Store all keyboards
sqkite.py Code for operating SQLite database
This was my first Python project, I did it a year ago. I got almost 100 users, but only a few of them were active weekly. So I stopped the project for some time. I hope somebody will find this code useful themselves.
Oh, and there is mindmap of bot's logic after the user has a match for a better understanding of the structure (it's in Cyrillic, but).