Case study
Tameris
A Python library for building and controlling Discord bots. I maintained it for over two years, with a small but steady community of bot developers around it.
- Role
- Maintainer
- Period
- 2021-01 → 2023-09
- Status
- Shipped
- Topics
- 4
The short version
A Python wrapper around the Discord API. Async-first, designed for small-to-medium bot projects. I shipped releases, triaged issues, and answered the occasional "why does my bot crash on reconnect" thread for about two and a half years.
What I owned
- The library itself: an async-first wrapper that exposes the Discord API as something a hobbyist bot could actually use without wanting to give up.
- A small release cadence, bug fixes, and enough of a community presence that the issues got read and the questions got answers.
What was hard
Sustained maintenance of a library whose primary audience is hobby projects. The hard part was not the code, it was the steady drip of issues, the version churn from the upstream Discord API, and the discipline of cutting scope to what the community actually needed instead of what would have been fun to build.
What happened next
The repo is in maintenance mode. The library still works against the Discord API versions it was pinned to, and I'd be happy to hand it over to anyone who has the time.
What I took from it
The project I'm most proud of here is one I never shipped: I learned the difference between "the code is fun to write" and "people are actually using this," and that gap is where real product work happens.