Dane Parin

Shipped v1.3.0 today with a significant pricing restructure Old: Free (7 days) → Paid $4.99/mo New: Free (5 days) → Basic $2.99/mo → Pro $7.99/mo The old $4.99 single tier wasn't working. Too cheap to feel serious. Too expensive for impulse buy. Now there's a $2.99 entry point that's easy to say yes to. Add free → https://top.gg/bot/1482225606761386085

Just shipped v1.2.0! 🚀 Biggest change: Ko-fi payments now auto-activate. Previously I had to manually grant paid tier after every payment, not scalable. Now when someone pays on Ko-fi and includes their Discord Server ID in the message, the bot detects it automatically and activates their subscription instantly. Also added /announce so I can broadcast updates directly to servers that opt in,...

Things I learned shipping a Discord bot this week: 1. Railway's restart policy can cause rapid reconnects → Discord IP ban. Set restartPolicyMaxRetries to 3, not 5. The fewer restarts, the less likely you get rate limited. 2. SQLite is fine for a Discord bot. WAL mode + aiosqlite = zero issues so far. You don't need Postgres until you're at hundreds of servers with heavy concurrent writes. 3....

Hello Product Hunt! 👋 I built Heatmap Bot because I kept posting in my Discord server at the wrong time and getting zero engagement. Turns out most servers have a very clear activity pattern, weekday evenings are usually peak time. But Discord doesn't show you this anywhere. With one command: /heatmap, you get a full 7×24 activity heatmap directly in chat. There's much more command. What's...

Hello Product Hunt! 👋 I built Heatmap Bot because I kept posting in my Discord server at the wrong time and getting zero engagement. Turns out most servers have a very clear activity pattern, weekday evenings are usually peak time. But Discord doesn't show you this anywhere. With one command: /heatmap, you get a full 7×24 activity heatmap directly in chat. There's much more command. What's...