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built the bot on node + slack bolt in socket mode, so it talks to slack over a websocket with no public url. made the slack app from a manifest (auto-adds the slash commands, scopes, socket mode and the @mention event), generated the app-level and bot tokens, dropped them in a gitignored .env, and verified both against the slack api — “bot is running! now connected to slack”.then made it better: 11 commands now, all prefixed /sripin- so they don’t collide with other bots — ping, help, catfact, joke, quote, weather (wttr.in, no api key), define, 8ball, roll (NdM dice), flip, choose. every api call has a timeout and try/catch so a dead api can’t crash the bot, and a couple have offline fallbacks. fun commands post in-channel so everyone sees them. also fixed a real bug where the little http health endpoint would kill the whole bot if its port was taken, now it just disables itself — and added an error handler, clean sigint/sigterm shutdown, and a line that logs every incoming command. last step is deploying to hack club nest so it stays live 24/7 with my laptop closed.
day 1 on my stardance slack bot. started by reading through the whole guide so i knew what i was building - a slack bot that answers slash commands. first thing i actually set up was builting the bot itself - a node project using slack bolt in socket mode, so it talks to slack over a websocket and doesn’t need a public url. wrote four slash commands: /sripin-ping replies with the bot’s latency, /sripin-help lists the commands, and /sripin-catfact and /sripin-joke pull from public apis with axios and have try/catch so a dead api doesn’t crash the bot. also added a tiny http health endpoint on port 3000 so there’s still something to open in a browser, plus a systemd service file for deploying on nest later. set up the git repo, wrote the readme, and pushed everything to github. next up: make the actual slack app, get the xoxb + xapp tokens into .env, run npm install, and test it live in #bot-spam.
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been improving serenityos lately and honestly it’s in a way better place now. gave the whole thing a fresh look, clean type, calm colors, feels like one cohesive product from the landing all the way into the desktop. also shipped 3 new features: a browser you can actually surf in, a paint app for doodling (save as png too), and a new animated ui with word-by-word reveals and buttons that drift toward your cursor. cleaned up a bunch of old jank along the way. more soon :)
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built my own personal website from scratch. it’s where i show what i’m working on and what i’ve shipped. the homepage has all my main projects, and each one clicks into its own page with the full story, what i built, and what happened. there are 8 in total, from startups to school projects to random experiments. added a real contact form that actually sends emails to my inbox when someone fills it out, with spam protection so nobody can send more than 3 messages a day.
did a full security check and patched every vulnerability, ended at zero.
not trying to make it perfect, just trying to make it real.
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finally started making my portfolio feel like my own instead of another template. rebuilt the homepage, replaced all the placeholder content with real project stories and metrics, fixed a bunch of annoying UI bugs, and added dedicated case study pages for every project. also rewrote the about page and added small details like page-specific preloaders that make the site feel a little more polished
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I started with a simple website scraper, but it quickly became clear that it only worked well for tech startups. So I pivoted hard: I added parallel sub-page fetching for contact and about pages, built Wikipedia integration to pull founding data, and spent a lot of time fighting ugly wikitext template parsing bugs. I also expanded industry detection from 5 categories to 20+, which made the scans much more accurate across different kinds of businesses.The UI got a full redesign too, from something vibecoded into something much more editorial, with a dark hero section, Cormorant Garamond serif text, and electric blue accents. The most important addition was the “Ask AI” button: Groq’s llama-3.3-70b now fills in missing founders, revenue, and key products on demand, but only when clicked, so there’s no latency penalty during normal scans. After setting GROQ_API_KEY on Vercel and deploying to production, the project became a full intelligence tool that can generate detailed reports for both Stripe and local businesses. Ship the thing.
got feedback that the readme sounded too AI-generated. stripped it down, rewrote it in first person, added a screenshot, trimmed features to 6 bullets. removed the corporate FAQ, the exhaustive tech stack list, everything that felt like a template. readme now sounds like i actually wrote it instead of a marketing team approving it. added a “how it works” section that tells the real build story instead of listing libraries. shipped it.
Devlog — Killed the Grok API Dependency
clarification questions were broken. Grok API wasn’t recognizing any model names (grok-2, grok-beta, grok — all failed). spent 15 minutes debugging dead ends.
gave up on the api. switched to hardcoded template questions instead. built question templates for each category: research gets different questions than business, different from writing, etc.
now when user hits execute → instant questions pop up → no api calls, no latency, no failures. just works.
same feature. actually reliable. 🚀
OneShot Dashboard Redesign
Spent the week tearing down the OneShot dashboard and rebuilding it with a clean black/white aesthetic. Text was disappearing, colors were fighting each other, and the whole thing felt half-baked.
Went through five pages and standardized the color system: solid white for primary text, opacity variants for secondary, and proper contrast everywhere. Same features, completely different vibe.
The real win? Design isn’t decoration. When a page is polished, users assume the engineering is solid. Now it actually looks like I care about the details.
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I improved the UI to make the project look more polished and intentional, with cleaner spacing, better visual hierarchy, and a smoother overall experience. I also rewrote the README so it felt more human and easier to understand, instead of sounding like a wall of technical notes. On top of that, I added a few new features that make the app feel more complete, more useful, and closer to something people would actually want to keep using.
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I started with a simple website scraper, but it quickly became clear that it only worked well for tech startups. So I pivoted hard: I added parallel sub-page fetching for contact and about pages, built Wikipedia integration to pull founding data, and spent a lot of time fighting ugly wikitext template parsing bugs. I also expanded industry detection from 5 categories to 20+, which made the scans much more accurate across different kinds of businesses.
The UI got a full redesign too, from something vibecoded into something much more editorial, with a dark hero section, Cormorant Garamond serif text, and electric blue accents. The most important addition was the “Ask AI” button: Groq’s llama-3.3-70b now fills in missing founders, revenue, and key products on demand, but only when clicked, so there’s no latency penalty during normal scans. After setting GROQ_API_KEY on Vercel and deploying to production, the project became a full intelligence tool that can generate detailed reports for both Stripe and local businesses. Ship the thing.
built an AI execution engine. you describe what you need, it gives you professional results in seconds. rewrote the README to sound human (last one looked AI-generated). fixed UI readability, added progress bars, implemented retry logic for API stability. it’s live at oneshot-chi-nine.vercel.app and actually works. and my vercel kept deploying my old deployments so fixing that took me a long time i also added a progress bar feature so users dont get stuck on the screen showing nothing and yea some of the previous buttons weren’t working or were glitched so i fixed those too.
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