Case study
Tameris
A Python library for building and controlling Discord bots. Active for over two years, used by a small but steady community of bot developers.
- Role
- Maintainer
- Period
- 2021-01 → 2023-09
- Status
- Shipped
- Tags
- 4
Summary
A Python wrapper around the Discord API, async-first, designed for small-to-medium bot projects. Maintained it for over two years, with a small but steady community of bot developers using it.
What I built
- A Python library that wraps the Discord API and exposes it as an async-first interface suitable for small-to-medium bot projects.
- Releases, bug fixes, and community support over a roughly two-and-a-half-year maintenance window.
What was hard
Sustained maintenance of a library whose primary consumer audience is hobbyist projects. The hard part was not the code; it was the steady drip of issues, version churn from the upstream Discord API, and the discipline of cutting scope to what the community actually needed.
What's next
The repo is in maintenance mode. The library still works against the Discord API versions it was pinned to.
What I learned
The thing I am most proud of here is the project 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.