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How I built a Discord 'ship-tracker' bot in a weekend (and the 3-process architecture that keeps it alive 24/7)

DEV Community·Chalom Ellezam·25 days ago
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Disclosure: I'm a senior backend tech lead and I run HostingGuru. This bot runs on HostingGuru's Pro tier — but the architecture (web service + worker + scheduled job) works on any platform that supports those three primitives. I'll point out where each piece runs. I co-run a small Discord community for indie founders building dev tools. About 220 members, mostly early-stage SaaS people, lots of Claude Code / Cursor enthusiasts. Every Monday I used to manually scroll through the previous week's #i-shipped channel and write a digest message: "this week we shipped X, Y, Z." It took 30 minutes every Monday morning. After 5 weeks of it I did the math — 30 min × 52 weeks = 26 hours a year of me doing what a bot could do better. So one Saturday I built ShipTrack , the bot that's been keeping my Mondays free for 6 months now. This is the build log.…

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