NetflixAddicts

NetflixAddicts started as a Discord server for people who watch a lot of series, and grew a bot to go with it. The ency command searched a catalogue of shows by title or by genre and returned paginated embeds, while a suggest command let members propose the entries that were missing. The catalogue was never scraped from anywhere: it was whatever the community had bothered to add. Around the bot came the usual community plumbing: private voice channels created on demand and torn down when empty, audio playback, presence management, and a Twitter bridge for announcements. The bot was written in TypeScript on discord.js and published under Apache 2.0. A showcase site was designed alongside it. The home page was laid out, the encyclopedia page never got past a wireframe, and the whole thing stayed a prototype. A Go API was started to back it and abandoned three days later. Two rewrites were planned and never written: a client/server split in late 2020, and a Next.js front in early 2021. Both repositories still hold nothing but a README. The six repositories were archived, and the project stands as a reminder that a community can outlive the software written for it.