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CoffeeChat Bot

Automated networking events for your Discord community

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Keep your community alive and provide value via automated networking events in your Discord server. Automated scheduling, partner matching, and voice channel assignments.

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Thank you for checking out my launch! I built this because my journey of becoming an entrepreneur has been extremely isolating. I decided to join a few Discord servers geared towards tech entrepreneurs, but found they were either dead, or full of spam and scams. CoffeeChat Bot solves my issues with Discord: I hate monitoring text channels all day, and I hate when voice channels are too full to make a real connection with others. You can set up an event with just a few short steps: 1. Log into coffeechatbot.app with Discord 2. Add the bot to your server via our UI 3. Create an event in our UI 4. Thats it! Just show up to the voice channel when the event starts, and the Discord bot handles the rest. If you think this is a cool project, but don't have a Discord server yourself, I'd love for you to join https://startupchats.willness.dev. I am running my own networking chats twice a week, geared towards tech entrepeneurs. Join for a 15 minute 1on1 chat with a random entrepreneur! - Every Tuesday at 9AM PST - Every Sunday at 5PM PST Features right now: - Dashboard to add bot, set up events - Integration with Discord Scheduled Events (handles registration, calendar integration, push notifications) - Creates lobby voice channel - Bot reads out instructions to participants - Distributes users between voice channels, using history based matchmaking (prioritizing matching users who haven't been matched before) - Supports multiple rounds (think speed dating, but for networking) - Dashboard has data and metrics (+ export) for each event

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I like your idea Will, let me know how you will progress. I'm mapping community industry, and next steps can be great to make the similar thing for other fast growing community platforms. Skool, Circle, Discourse, but also many WhatsApp, and Telegram groups can use it as well. Good luck.

Great idea! It looks simple to set up and versatile enough for a wide range of communities. I'm sure many servers will find creative and valuable ways to incorporate it.

Just browsed CoffeeChat Bot’s landing page and love the “just paste a link, spark a conversation” simplicity. It feels like a lightweight ice-breaker engine for remote teams who miss those spontaneous kitchen chats! ☕

A couple of things I’m curious about after the walkthrough:

  • Match logic: is pairing fully random, or can admins weight matches by team, timezone, or shared interests so introverts ease in gently?

  • Calendar glue: any roadmap for Google Calendar or Outlook auto-invites so the chat slot lands in everyone’s diary without copy-pasting?

  • Privacy switch: some folks prefer first names only until they’ve had a call; can organizers toggle what profile data is shared?

  • Pulse check: I finally think that a quick feedback emoji after each chat (👍 = great conversation/👎 = didn’t click) would generate insights on culture health over time.

Anyway it's nice to see a tool tackling human connection rather than yet another task tracker. Cheers on the launch! 🚀

Loved it! Community events are key to strongly build it. I'm sure CoffeChat is gonna change that game in the best way. Wish you all the best here Will!

I was also thinking whether something like this could make sense for Slack (but then realised that some people want to spend as little time as possible in work channels). 😀 so I like this Discord version as the primary channel. :)

Automating meaningful interactions right inside Discord is such a smart way to keep communities active and engaged. Makes networking feel effortless and way more fun.