Hi — we're building BotShade.

Hello.

Thanks for finding this page.

We’re the BotShade Team, the people building BotShade.

Going forward we’ll be writing more pieces like operations notes and incident reports too — but if that’s all there is, the thinking behind the product gets lost. So we wanted a place for lighter posts like this as well.

Table of contents:

• About us
• Why we’re building BotShade
• What’s next
• If you’d like

About us

We’ve been running Discord servers and building Discord bots for a long time, and we’ve thought, more times than we can count, “why does building a bot have to be this stressful?”

Endless errors in Python (discord.py), patch after patch, and by the time it actually works you’re already burnt out. As a break we tried a few existing no-code bot makers — and each time something didn’t quite reach where we wanted, so we’d end up writing the thing ourselves anyway. That cycle, again and again.

BotShade started from that simple frustration.

Why we’re building BotShade

There isn’t a grand mission statement.

We just want to strip out the unnecessary stress involved in building a bot, as much as possible.

Trying existing services, we’d notice small things adding up — getting tired by an English-only UI every time, guessing our way through unintuitive settings panels, feeling that the same kind of bot would come out no matter where you built it. Lots of tiny snags piled on top of each other.

There’s a binary right now: people who can code DIY their way through, and people who can’t aren’t even at the door. We want that gradient to be a little smoother. We want a place where you can think of an idea, shape it, run it — and have that simple loop feel good to keep doing.

That’s the unglamorous reason we keep building BotShade.

What’s next

BotShade does not guarantee enterprise SLAs or zero downtime. Instead, we’re putting weight on keeping operations as open as possible:

• Live status is always public at status.botshade.com
• When something breaks, the incident report goes up — no hiding
• Maintenance is announced ahead of time on Discord, the dedicated page, and in-site notifications
• On this blog too, we’ll write about progress and what we’re thinking, plainly

We want this to be a product without lies.

If you’d like

If you try BotShade and have any reactions, please drop by the Discord server and tell us anything.

Praise, complaints, feature requests — all of it is fuel.

We’ll keep writing here, gently and honestly.

Thanks for being here.