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Michael Seibel

Dots for Discord - Build custom bots for Discord with no-code

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Dots is a no-code automation builder that helps mods build great member experiences in their Discord servers, and understand member insights! Use Dots to automate manual tasks such as welcoming new members, providing support flows and sending custom surveys.

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Sanket Chauhan
Maker
Hi everyone! We’re excited to launch Dots - a powerful no-code automation builder used by prominent Discord servers such as the NBA, Chainlink, Splice and Braintrust! We help folks scale their communities on Discord by automating common tasks like onboarding new members, providing customer support, and discovering insights on your most valuable members. The product consists of: 🤖 a no-code bot builder: You can pick a trigger (e.g when a user joins a community, or when they click a button), and define various actions to fire off after (e.g. send a message, send a survey, assign roles). You can think about it like Typeform for Discord, but on steroids! 📈 deep member analytics: Tag members into segments directly from Discord and identify key community members (or members about to churn) Here’s a quick 3 min demo on how you can create a rich automation in Dots: https://www.loom.com/share/67334... If you run a Discord, we would love, love, love your feedback! You can sign up at https://app.dots.community/signup with no credit card required. We have a broad free tier and our paid pricing starts at $29 / month and up for more advanced features and very large communities. Join our Discord to see a flow in action (or hang out with other 350+ Discord mods!) https://discord.gg/WJFTPtvGGw
Markus Sigel
@sanketchauhan Congrats on the launch! Super interesting, especially for people like me that don't code. What is the ideal community size?
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@markus_sigel Communities with more than few hundered members benefit the most from Dots! We do have some very small communities using it (such as surveying members), but generally we recommend most communities to do things manually to learn what resonates in the community before you automate specific tasks. Was there a usecase where you felt a custom Discord bot would have been ideal for you in the past?
Markus Sigel
@sanketchauhan Interesting. Would it be possible to auto-forward alerts from external sources, let's say Tradingview, directly to my Discord group?
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@markus_sigel Just checked that tradingView has support for webhooks, so in that case yes we should be able to! Would love to chat more on this. I can't find your twitter, want to DM me on twitter so we can grab a time to chat? https://twitter.com/sanketchauhan
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@josh_chainlink thanks for the feedback. Appreciated all the feedback you have given us as we improved the onboarding of Chainlink's Discord
Jorge Casals
This is awesome @sanketchauhan !! Congratulations to you and your team for the launch! Really useful - Will proceed to implement it in one of my discord channels.
Pranav Badami
Maker
@sanketchauhan @jorge_casals let’s gooo!! Any particular use cases that stick out to you? Also would love to have you join our Discord :) https://discord.gg/WJFTPtvGGw
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@jorge_casals thank you! Would you be able to share a bit more the use case where you think Dots can be helpful in your Discord server?
Jorge Casals
@sanketchauhan @pranavbadami I was thinking of using this as a personal use case, for online gaming, my go-to game has changed servers from a local forum to discord, I was planning on creating surveys, questions and strategies on our discord channel with this. I hope this could be possible with your software.
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@pranavbadami @jorge_casals Yes, we have a pretty extensive support for surveys/questions, and you can easily track the results (or export it to a csv or google sheet for example) Essentially anything you can do through Google forms or Typeform, we support that but natively on Discord. What do you mean by strategies btw? Like getting suggestions on best game play?
Jorge Casals
@pranavbadami @sanketchauhan Exactly, or asking what days are most people available to plan strategies etc, so leaders are aware automatically without having to behind everyone individually.
Advait Ruia
We're power users of Dots.community. Its helped us engage and onboard our Discord community members. Thank you @sanketchauhan and @pranavbadami !
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@advait_ruia thanks for being one of our earliest customers, and all the feedback!!
Pranav Badami
Maker
@sanketchauhan @advait_ruia love it, thanks so much Advait! Y’all were instrumental in helping us build our analytics out :)
Carl Vitullo
I'm really excited about what Dots can do for Discord communities — I've been really disappointed with the capabilities of most (other!) Discord bots I've investigated, and have ended up writing a lot of custom code to support the behaviors I want. Dots looks like it will be able to replace a ton of these specialized bots with something I don't have to run a server for. I've played around with it for a couple of weeks, and I'm really excited about what it can do now, and the potential it has in the future 🚀
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@vcarl Thank you for the candid feedback. We definitely will make the bot more stable so you can use it for complex use cases in the future. Thanks for being patient as we squash the bugs!
Pranav Badami
Maker
@vcarl thank you so much for your support! It’s been incredibly helpful so far and I really appreciate you helping us debug stuff early on too 🙌🏽
Jagath Vytheeswaran
Neat! How does this compare to tools like Mee6?
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@jagath_vytheeswaran Thank you! Our key differentiator is the highly customizable no-code builder. The no-code builder can support a variety of different triggers, actions, and even complex conditions. That isn't quite possible with existing bots, and will most likely require you to code. We also integrate with external tools to help push that info to systems you already use. Curious if you have used any other bots?
Pranav Badami
Maker
@jagath_vytheeswaran thanks! Good question, Dots is a lot more customizable and user friendly in Discord than tools like Mee6. We also offer much better analytics on your members versus a tool like Mee6, that pretty much just does role management.
Arnob Mukherjee
Congratulations on the launch Sanket 🚀 I have been running a discord community for Olvy, would definitely come on handy. Love the example of step-by-step onboarding flow, which usually we do it with mee bot which is obviously not very customisable. Gonna give it a try soon 🙌
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@iamarnob6543 thank you. Curious if you can share the biggest challenge you have currently in running this community? We are happy customers of Olvy!
Pranav Badami
Maker
@iamarnob6543 really excited to get your feedback, thanks Arnob!
Arnob Mukherjee
@sanketchauhan I think the biggest one would be building engagement, announcing new stuff, just entered your discord, love the onboarding there. Without even getting into the product, I just saw the possibilities 🙌
Pranav Badami
Maker
@sanketchauhan @iamarnob6543 thanks so much for joining the discord and for your feedback!
Devon Chulick
I got to use dots pretty early on and have loved how the team has grown the product. Discord is great for communities, but the native tools are terrible for automation and scale. Dots has helped a lot with that. Really excited for what they're doing now and next!
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@devochulick Thank you for sharing your experience using Dots for Total Party Chill's discord! Appreciated all the feedback you have given us in the past
Pranav Badami
Maker
@devochulick this means a lot, thank you!
Esteban Perez Martinez
@devochulick wow love to hear that Dots has been a game changer for you! Thanks for your early support Devon
Nirbhik Jangid
This is super awesome! Community onboarding needs a fix - big time.
Pranav Badami
Maker
@nirbhikjangid appreciate it nirbhik! That’s what we’re out to accomplish :D
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@nirbhikjangid agreed! What communities come to your mind with the best onboarding flows?
Arjay Ruggles
Our team at HomeRoom has been working with the Dots team for two months now, and we couldn't be more excited about this launch! We specialize in building Discord servers for large organizations, and Dots is our #1 go-to for anything related to community onboarding. Can't recommend this incredible tool enough!
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@lifewitharjay Thank you for the comment. We have enjoyed working with your team, and thanks for all the patience as we squash the bugs!
Pranav Badami
Maker
@lifewitharjay you’re the best! HomeRoom FTW as well, y’all have been giving us such awesome feedback :)
Oscar Martinez
Maker
@lifewitharjay Thanks for choosing Dots to build your organizations, customer as you are the reason we are so committed to making great things!
laksh
congratulation! on the launch
Alexandra Cavoulacos
Congrats on the launch, Dots team! Happy customer over here :)
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@acav thank you so much Alex! Appreciated all the feedback you gave us as we built out the first version to support complex approval flow for MetaAngels Discord!
Pranav Badami
Maker
@acav thanks so much Alex! The whole Meta Angels community team was instrumental in helping us shape the product. So grateful!
Stephen Caudill
So good! We’ve been using it on our discord server at Orange DAO and it’s been super helpful in improving our onboarding flow! 🧡🧡🧡
Pranav Badami
Maker
@stephencaudill amazing Orange DAO has provided such great feedback along the way, thank you!
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@stephencaudill @pranavbadami Thanks for the thoughts! Can't wait to help automate more things at Orange DAO!
Jay Bensal
I've been super impressed with the Dots product and team so far. I haven't been able to find any comparable tools out there for managing a Discord community. excited to see where the product goes!
Pranav Badami
Maker
@jbensal thanks so much for the kind words Jay, and please keep the feedback coming!
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@jbensal @pranavbadami Thanks Jay! Besides the use case you had mentioned about conditionals only when someone post on channels, curious if you have any other feature requests?
lorraine ye
I'm a big fan of DOTS and the DOTS team! With highly skilled builders, they're able to make a lot of your dream Discord automations happen. We've been able to use the DOTS integration to create automation for many of what were manual processes on our Discord.
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@lorrnft Thank you for the feedback! Looking forward to improving the product such that the level of customization helps automate more tasks
Vishal Godhwani from Brew Money
@_abhitweets check this out. Can be used in our Discord community
Pranav Badami
Maker
@_abhitweets @vishal_godhwani hey y’all, good to meet you! Would love to have you both take dots for a spin :) you can join our Discord server too for a quick demo! https://discord.gg/WJFTPtvGGw
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@_abhitweets @vishal_godhwani Thanks for tagging! Is this for the Brew Money Discord? And what aspect resonated the most here? (btw just tried to check out your Discord from the home page but got an invalid link fyi)
Vishal Godhwani from Brew Money
@_abhitweets @sanketchauhan yes for Brew. Currently, it's a closed group. Thanks for pointing out the website bug. We always wanted insights into community engagement. I think Abhilash is already using a tool..he will be able to respond better
Shubham Pratap Singh
Congratulations on the launch🎉🎉
Pranav Badami
Maker
@pratap_tech thank you!! Give us a shot if you have a discord :)
I love automation canvases, and I love chatbots! This is a delight! :D
Pranav Badami
Maker
@florin_biro amazing, thank you for your support 🙏🏽
Nick Shklovsky
Have been using Dots for about 8 months, and it's been a blast collaborating with the team to bring the best community experience to our growing ecosystem!
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@nickster440 Thank you Nick for the feedback. We have enjoyed getting all the feedback from you and the Quicknode team, and appreciated all the patience as we fixed all the bugs!
Pranav Badami
Maker
@nickster440 @sanketchauhan one of the OGs, your support has been absolutely invaluable Nicky! 🙌🏽
Victoria Mary
First of all, love the guys at Dots! Their willingness to receive feedback and iterate with status updates was integral to the integration of their product to the slack community I ran. I mostly used the bulk messaging, automated onboarding, and viewed low hanging fruit insights to our community. highly recommend!
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@victoriamary Thank you so much for all the feedback you gave us in the early days! Also, the session on community management in general were helpful for us to learn more about the space.
Pranav Badami
Maker
@victoriamary hanks so much for your support and I’m so glad we got to meet IRL at CMX Hub this year :)
Philip Dam
Very interesting - helps Discord becomes a bit more viable for large groups. Large community group platforms don't really have a great platform solution yet, imo, and need apps like this to take them a step closer. Thoughts?
Pranav Badami
Maker
@phdam3 totally agreed! People end up getting lost in large communities and it’s hard to guide people through certain processes and campaigns at scale. That’s where we’re moving the needle!
Sanket Chauhan
Maker
@phdam3 Another thing is instantaneous nature + the fact that so many people use Discord already - it makes it accessible to a lot of people. Something about chat is just a better version to communicate than forums for certain types of conversations & connections