Disboard alternative?

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Disboard alternative?

fschmidt
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Disboard is a Discord server search tool.  It is very poorly run.  They started doing manual reviews before new Discord servers are accepted, and this takes weeks.  There are a number of Disboard alternatives, but they are incredibly bad, totally unusable.  So there might be an opportunity to make a Disboard alternative.

My idea would be to copy the Disboard UI but to try to also support other chat services.  So this would be a general chat server search engine.

The challenge is in marketing this to end users.  New server owners would easily use a new service because they are frustrated with Disboard.  But end users probably don't even notice the problem.  So the challenge is marketing this to end users.  I suspect Google ads would be the best way.

I have no time to work on this idea.  But if others could do it, I could finance it.  The first task is figuring out the marketing.  If there is a marketing strategy that makes sense, then we could look for a programmer to do this.  The programming is actually fairly simple.  I could probably do it in about 2 weeks, which means that a decent programmer should be able to do it in a few months.

I am just putting this idea out here to see what happens.  Of course my expectations are low, I know that people generally do nothing.  But at least I have described the idea here.
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fschmidt
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My server has been under review for more than 2 months.  The opportunity here is growing.
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fschmidt
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I will go ahead with this as a hobby.

https://discord.gg/tCwTJDSatu
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I finished programming the core of this and I will leave finishing this as an exercise for anyone who wants to learn reactionary programming.

http://test.disearch.org/tools/why.html