I’ve been following Coinbase’s Toshi for a while — but never built anything. If you’re unfamiliar with Toshi, it’s a hybrid of a wallet, app platform and secure messenger — available for iOS and Android. Checkout this post if you want more detail.

Building simple apps on ethereum has — at least for me — been daunting to get started with. However, it turns out it’s super easy with Toshi.

How did I get over this daunting-ness? Well of course I started by finding a tutorial. This meant following the pretty great docs and tutorial over at https://developers.toshi.org/docs/creating-a-token-app - I ended up building something, testing it and getting it deployed in about 2 hours end to end!

So, what did I build?

A faucet I found at https://pixabay.com/p-113399/. Imagine it’s ethereum coming out of it. That’s what I made.

A super simple ethereum testnet faucet chatbot. It will send you small amounts of tokens, and also thank you if you send it tokens too!