Hi, I am Harsh. I work on open source projects at Epicenter (YCs25) and part-time as a community support engineer at Cognee. I specialize in frontend development and building practical developer tools.
I've worked at startups before, so I'm used to switching between roles and responsibilities.
I am managing a discord community with over 1k+ members I found some people would regularly put spam links or message on all the channels and this been repetitive it's just take time deleting them one by one or reposting them into the specific channel. So I build a discord bot that would make this lot easier it catches the spam message post them into actual channel and also delete spam links. It's open source and easy to setup.
My name is Harsh Kumar. I maintain open source projects at Epicenter(YCS25) and a part time technical community engineer at Cognee. I am interested in Open source projects and startups hiring for remote role in web dev and community domain.
discord is still great if it's handled well. I'd start by DM'ing a few of my active users and asking what they actually want from the server now what topics, formats, or activities they'd find valuable. that feedback alone can guide your direction.
also you could also try launching something lightweight but consistent, like a weekly dev/hacker discussion, office hours, or casual show-and-tell. Regular events give people a reason to come back
Servers usually don’t die because of Discord they die from lack of purpose. If you redefine that, you can revive it.
you can use a multipurpose bot like sapphire https://sapph.xyz for moderation, anti-spam, logging, and automations.
to reduce junk, spam stuff you could try adding onboarding/verification questions before granting access also can se AutoMod + keyword/link filters
and rate-limit new users
this won’t remove 100% of spam but it'll drastically reduce it some manual moderation will still be needed.
Full-stack developer and open-source maintainer at Epicenter (YC S25).
Experience building AI-integrated web apps and reviewing 450+ frontend projects on Frontend Mentor. Enjoy building tools like Seeva, CCUX and AlertFrame.
i built something similar for my own site but with a macOS vibe - https://thisisharsh7.github.io