How I created the best discord meme bot.

Over the past few weeks, life has been very chaotic on my end, mostly due to the announcement of OpenBB last week which you can read the full story on here.

When I started OpenBB Terminal, all my focus was on building, building and building. Once I made the project open source and contributors started to appear, I slowly saw my time shifting from building a product to building a community. This community ultimately would end up building the product, but from my end, I need to be able to pass on my passion to the project and vision.

Developing features for the terminal only took me a couple of minutes, whereas the connection with the community is a long-time game. You don’t become close with someone you’ve never met within couple of minutes. Instead you need to put effort into the relationship and consistency is key.

The community on our Discord was growing day by day. And so was my relationship with the people in it. The truth is, we were not only sharing insights about the platform, but were laughing and bonding together whilst building it. And memes/gifs are a big part of these interactions.

For people who know me, they know how much I love memes and how I can always create memes for every situation (honestly, all the time I spent on Instagram is finally paying off).

Although I believe that we have one of the most exciting open source projects going on, I also strongly believe that our fun culture (i.e. memes) is what makes contributors…