Hi friends,

First of all, I want to thank @yabapmatt & @drotto for creating bid based voting bots in Javascript & Ruby. I want to give special appreciation to @yabapmatt because his work on the javascript upvote bot is truly amazing, user-friendly & feature-full. As I am not too well-versed in javascript or ruby, I decided to create my own upvote bot in Python. I thought maybe my work can be of some help to the Steemit community as many Steemians who prefer python can start their upvote bots and further help transform the minnows out there to big blue whales.

Here's the link of my first open-source project: Bid Based Upvote Bot (First Beta Version) in Python.
Github: https://github.com/outlier89/pybidbot

#### Existing Features:
* Automatically refund invalid bids for: 
   * Max Post Age Exceeded
   * Invalid URL
   * Post already upvoted
   * Min Bid amount not received.
* Accepts Steem
* API Enabled
* Bids placed during voting will not be missed & will be carry-forward to the next round.

Currently, the features are quite less as compared to the current voting bots but I will be updating them as and when I get time. Meanwhile, feel free to fork it on github & contact me on discord in case of any issues.