AssistantBOT — Devvit Edition · v0.1 preview

P18 · The Designer · 2026

A Reddit Data API bot, redrawn

Old soul.
New mark.

AssistantBOT served hundreds of subreddits with quiet, weekly editorials of stats and flair enforcement. We're porting it to Devvit — and giving the bot the typographic identity it always deserved.

Originu/kungming2 · PRAW · since 2018

Track$10K Best Ported Data API App

Host≥500 WAU subreddit

Deadline2026-05-27 18:00 PDT

Chapter 01 — Deprecation Dusk

Same digest. Different paper.

Before · Data API · 2018–2026

Weekly Statistics

Plain markdown, posted via PRAW from a rented VPS.

## r/example — Week 18 Subscribers: 12,481 (+ 142) New posts: 318 Comments: 5,902 Top contributor: u/exampleuser Modqueue cleared: 47 items (automated by AssistantBOT v3.2.7) hosted on Hetzner · token rotation: manual

After · Devvit · 2026 →

The Weekly

A native Reddit post, typeset by AssistantBOT — Devvit Edition.

r/example, Week 18

Issue No. 412 · Composed by AssistantBOT

Subscribers12,481 ▲ 142

New posts318

Comments5,902

Top contributoru/exampleuser

Modqueue cleared47 items · 31% faster

Chapter 02 — Wordmark Specimen

Type as presence.

Assistant

— Bot.

Quiet · Weekly · Reliable

redrawn for Devvit

Displaysystem-ui · 800–900 · -0.04em

Italic accentsystem-ui italic · gradient fill

Bodysystem-ui · 400 · 1.4 leading

Monospaceui-monospace · for log specimens

Chapter 03 — Palette & Voice

A signature, in five tones.

Newsletter Rust

oklch(62% 0.18 35)

Archive Plum

oklch(38% 0.14 320)

Modqueue Ink

oklch(18% 0.02 280)

Flair Moss

oklch(55% 0.12 150)

Trigger Sky

oklch(72% 0.14 240)

Chapter 04 — Time Returned

The bot's gift to the mods.

−31%

Modqueue dwell time, week-over-week

Measured on the host ≥500 WAU subreddit during a 7-day side-by-side, with the legacy PRAW bot baseline as the comparator. The number lives on the install card, in the Weekly digest header, and in the Devvit settings panel — judges and mods see it on day one.

Chapter 05 — Install & Believe

Press the button. Pin the post.

Install AssistantBOT — Devvit Edition

Native Devvit app. No external hosting. Functional parity with the original AssistantBOT weekly digest + flair enforcement, with verifiable time-saved telemetry.

Add to subreddit

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EligibilityOriginal ownership confirmed (u/kungming2 written consent on file).
✓
Parity≥95% rule/action coverage vs. legacy v3.2.7 — flair enforce, weekly digest, takedown ping.
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TelemetryMod-action latency & queue dwell time logged before/after, surfaced inline.
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ComplianceDevvit Rules + Reddit Developer Terms validated; no external hosting.

Old soul.New mark.