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Posted by dandano 6/28/2025

I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric(blog.danpetrolito.xyz)
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anigbrowl 7/1/2025|
tl;dr author finds Discord better than Signal for online socializing
CHUCKEESH 7/4/2025||
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pyfan878 7/1/2025||
hogged to death :/
dangus 6/28/2025||
Do you have a link to the bot?
dandano 6/28/2025||
I don’t sorry - I could clean up the repo and make it public. But if you follow the discord py tutorials it’s very simple to implement.
dangus 6/28/2025||
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pchangr 6/28/2025|||
From the guidelines: “Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”

I think this satisfies my intelectual curiosity.

aspenmayer 7/1/2025|||
Also from the guidelines, HN is not primarily for (self) promo. This isn’t a Show HN, though, so it’s not necessary for us to have something we can hold and play with. Look with your eyes and enjoy OP’s thing vicariously.

In the vibe code era, is it gauche to ask for code?

Considering that OP hasn’t made any other posts or comments in any other threads, it’s fair to assume that they are like 90% of users who don’t post or comment, but they did in this thread about their stuff, so it is sort of a legitimate criticism.

dangus 6/28/2025|||
I understand the guidelines, I am not claiming the post violates guidelines.
pchangr 6/29/2025||
I didn’t claim it violated them either. I just thought having a curious story was a good enough value for this post to exist. I don’t think it needs code or a product.. in fact .. I wish more people did this kind of posts.. and just encourage people to do stuff for the sake of it .. be it a notification system for your friends … or just a story about friendship.
SonOfLilit 7/1/2025||||
Man, what.

This is something that Claude will get right in a single prompt. It's the idea that's valuable, as well as the experience report.

lukan 7/1/2025||
And .. there is actually code for the bot inside the story.

Serious advice, some people don't work so well with heat and get angry fast (there is a heat wave in europe right now). Drink a lot and splash your head with water helps ..

andrewaylett 7/1/2025||||
Fixing a social problem by technical means? That's rare enough to merit shouting about it, even if it's not generally applicable.
dizhn 7/1/2025||||
I don't get it. What in the post did you find so novel that you want a full solution based on that? It's just a notification service which you can whip up in half an hour with any messaging service. It would probably take 10 minutes to do it using telegram. 30 if you need to create a brand new bot.
matkoniecz 7/1/2025|||
> So what value is the audience getting out of this article?

getting idea that they can replicate or confirmation that such idea worked for someone

xyst 7/1/2025||
It’s literally in the post, m8.

Perhaps read it, use one of the many discord wrapper apis, and replicate it. He just hooks into one of the many events discord emits and bot sends a message.

Even one of the LLMs can very easily vibe code this…

catigula 7/1/2025|
It strikes me: is anyone else sick of people calling developing software "building"? Even as a software developer, it feels very supercilious.
Retric 7/1/2025||
No, build “#3. To develop or give form to according to a plan or process; create”

There’s a line between baking a cake and building a wedding cake where it stops being about the ingredients and starts being about the desired form. https://shunbridal.com/article/how-tobuild-a-wedding-cake

It’s in that context where building software makes sense. You need to link a bunch of different components together to make a greater whole.

catigula 7/1/2025||
I figured someone would attempt to use the technical definition to make their case.

The problem isn't one of technical definitions, it's one of performative definitions.

I am technically an Online Communications Solutions Integration Architect, and also a guy posting on an internet forum.

Retric 7/1/2025||
I was going by vibes with building a wedding cake. I don’t think writing a 3 line bash script is building software.
whatevertrevor 7/1/2025|||
For small projects I tend to use write because that's what it feels like. For bigger things where there is a design element, I'll usually say designed and wrote X instead if I want emphasize its non-triviality.

I didn't think of it before but you're right building feels like implying more weight than it feels right. But also I concede this is quite subjective.

elendee 7/2/2025|||
I think there's a difference between software and scripts too. Unrepentant scripter4lyfe here
bongodongobob 7/1/2025||
Yes. Especially things like "solutions architect".