I live in a small town and it's hard to find friends. I decided to create a bot for finding friends based on my perspective (as a family person).
Using claude desktop, I gathered similar applications and information about their functionality through research, sketched out a concept and description of the functionality, and created a technical specification.
I fed the technical specification into Claude Code, which I launched directly in the server console where I wanted to "host the bot". After some cosmetic adjustments, voilà.
Here is the bot for non-romantic dating @myfriendconnectbot
I shared the bot link in local groups - people started registering and getting to know each other!
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I continue to work on the functionality in my free time from other projects.
