red-kun
📊 Project Summary
Red-kun was my contribution to the Red-DiscordBot ecosystem — a powerful, modular Discord bot framework built with Python. Red-kun focused on simplifying deployment by offering a one-click Heroku setup, making it easier for new users to get started without worrying about hosting or server configuration.
Think of it like this:
Red-DiscordBot + Heroku = Red-kun
🚀 What Red-kun Did
- Enabled Heroku one-click deployment for Red-DiscordBot
- Abstracted away the trickier parts of setup, such as environment configuration and token management
- Served as an on-ramp for non-technical users to start running their own Red bot instances
🤖 About Red-DiscordBot
Red-DiscordBot itself is a highly modular framework for building feature-rich bots. It supports installing and managing custom cogs at runtime, which makes it incredibly flexible. Over the years, I ran multiple Red instances and:
- Installed and tested third-party cogs from the wider community
- Developed my own custom cogs to meet specific moderation and automation needs
- Helped maintain communities — sometimes with over 5,000 users — powered entirely by Red
I spent a lot of time fine-tuning configurations, experimenting with new workflows, and helping others navigate the more advanced parts of the framework. Red’s cog system is powerful but not always beginner-friendly, so having the right config made all the difference.
💾 Sunset of My Cog Repository
At one point, I maintained my own public cog repository — but eventually chose to remove it. The community around Red-DiscordBot had grown significantly by then, with no shortage of talented cog developers. Rather than maintain my own slice of the ecosystem, I focused more on using and configuring the platform to support large communities.
🌱 Community Impact
Through Red and Red-kun, I helped several Discord communities grow and scale, offering tooling that automated moderation, role management, content delivery, and more. It was a hands-on way to blend code, infrastructure, and community building — all within the Discord ecosystem.
While Red-kun was a relatively small tool, it served as a gateway into a much larger framework that taught me a lot about bot architecture, modular design, and supporting large-scale online communities.
