Steve. L

WAGMII

[Lux Moreau ✨ @MentionLux]

Rick on Telegram can see images now (but only if you want him to)

Opens up many new (and fun) ways to speed up your research.

GN 💤

[Steve. L @Theonlystevee]

@JayGemzCalls imma need a new rating scale g

[Steve. L @Theonlystevee]

@BhadBhabie What is this garbage

[𝖈𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖞𝖕𝖙𝖔.𝖊𝖙𝖍 @collinscrypto_]

If you held $TRUMP for the past 15 minutes you just outperformed everyone holding ethereum for the past 5 years

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

My NEW Official Trump Meme is HERE! It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING! Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW. Go to https://t.co/GX3ZxT5xyq — Have Fun!

[Steve. L @Theonlystevee]

Early alpha.

[glympse.fun @glympsedotfun]

Introducing @glympsedotfun

The first attention marketplace built on @solana tokenizing the virality of users and their content with a twist

Post images, videos, and music, or simply let others speculate on your mindshare—and start earning from your attention

https://t.co/SzvEIV3F6w

Where social media meets crypto speculation powered by attention lotteries

[Lux Moreau ✨ @MentionLux]

gm, ready for 2025?

Highly recommend u set a /clantag on @RickBurpBot if you used Rick in your group in 2024

when u done that, run /rank 🫡

[Lux Moreau ✨ @MentionLux]

🎄 Ho ho ho! I've been working on the Holiday Update for Rick.

No one likes reading change logs, so I'll try to keep it as straight forward as possible!

[Steve. L @Theonlystevee]

@MentionLux @telegram @RickBurpBot Telegram is nothing without rick!!

[Lux Moreau ✨ @MentionLux]

Ok no clue wtf just happened but apparently @telegram deleted @RickBurpBot?

I am not informed about anything, the bot is simply gone from BotFather

[BONK!!! @bonk_inu]

Meet Dew The Moonbear❗️❗️❗️

Get ready to go an adventure with Team BaoBao and Dew soon in an upcoming episode!🐾

[Steve. L @Theonlystevee]

@AMBEROnSol Fix tg link

[V @VNR1xx]

THE OFFICIAL $AMBER COIN IS NOW LIVE! 🦧

OFFICIAL CA:
AwQejo6QzwXVhoqnQa4pDaYiFCnMEhpMeSr32vbkpump

WE WILL NEVER CONTACT YOU FIRST. DO NOT FALL FOR SCAMS.

$AMBER IS HERE TO STAY.

[Steve. L @Theonlystevee]

@Jacksonm_GMI Stoploss on pumpfun?? Wtfff

[Yous @Yous1902]

The only problem you will have is that you didn't buy more degen coins

[Lux Moreau ✨ @MentionLux]

About 1.5 years ago, I started @RickBurpBot on Discord.

Now, Rick is currently serving over 7,000 servers and 12,000 groups; this journey has been amazing—thank you all!

A short story...

Initially, it began as an AI chatbot (10 times more toxic than he is now, by the way) as I was just playing around and learning how to code. At this point, I had one simple goal: to make an AI chatbot that "lives" in your group. After this was achieved, I started to explore crypto features; at this point, my goal was to simply make a good pricebot.

After the Discord bot went public, it didn't take too long for users to ask me to make a Telegram bot. I was not a fan of developing on Telegram; in my opinion, Discord seemed much easier to start with. Considering I was still a beginner, I wasn't really comfortable doing Telegram, but 2-3 months after the Discord launch, I started porting to Telegram anyway.

My goal was never to dominate this space, especially on a saturated platform like Telegram; I really had no expectations and was doing this for my users. My approach was unique, and people were used to other bots. I never really thought about this and was doing my own thing because I was never focused on growth.

Fast forward, and things like Active Token Tracking, leaderboards, and $cashtag querying quickly became a standard for all bots, and not long after, most other bots began implementing similar functionality.

Rick has changed a lot of things for this space in a positive way, and I'm very proud of that; for me, this is quite an achievement.

I was simply building tools I personally use on a regular basis, and other people seemed to like these.

How did I do this?

I never did any marketing, and all growth has been organic. Other than some basic Linux/sysadmin experience, I couldn't code in Python (or any other language except simple Bash), but ChatGPT has taught me a lot. Use it right, and it can be a personal teacher with unlimited patience.

While the bot was growing, challenges would spawn out of nowhere, forcing me to learn something new almost every other day (yes, sometimes this sucked, as the timing was not always perfect). But what was the key to Rick's success?

It was mostly just listening to every little piece of feedback I got. We call this complaint-driven development. To read about this approach, visit: https://t.co/sNbZQUSuQQ

As a solo developer, this approach helps me to stay focused on what matters instead of chasing every feature request as soon as possible. This allows me to ship fast and make improvements where they are needed the most.

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I'd like to thank all of you for the support and encouragement. I have had a lot of people asking me about how or why I started Rick, so I figured now is a good time to get the story out. I hope you enjoyed reading.