Lespy started as a leveling bot for a small server and turned into the thing I test every new idea on before it goes anywhere near a real project. SQLite for state, a cooldown system that took longer to get right than I'd like to admit, and just enough admin tooling to not regret it later.
rejs came out of the same itch, except this one watches a game server instead of a chat. different problem, same shape: poll something, store what changed, tell the right channel about it.
neither one needed to be a Discord bot specifically, that's just the interface I already had lying around: a chat window people check anyway, a place to push a notification without building a UI for it.