r/BotNation

Everything is a subscription now.

Cloud storage. AI tools. Editing software. Automation platforms. Password managers. Streaming. Developer tools.

One service is cheap.

Ten services quietly become a lot.

That's why I find self-hosted tools more interesting lately even though they're obviously more work.

How many tech subscriptions are you paying for right now?

I keep seeing people talk about AI agents and automation like they've already built the next big thing but when you actually look at the project it's usually just a landing page and a chatbot API I'm more interested in the stuff that took some effort to get working.

Maybe you built a discord bot that actually gets used or a telegram automation that saves you time every day Maybe you connected an AI model to a few APIs and made your own little workflow Even a messy script that started as a weekend experiment counts

I'm curious what people here are actually building instead of just talking about.

What's one AI or automation project you've built that you're genuinely proud of?

I’m curious if it’s even possible to use Tiktok follower, like and views bots (artificial engagement in general) to grow your page on tiktok safely? 

I’ve been told that this has been around forever and many Tiktok pages personally bot themselves to make them appear bigger wondering how true this is and where they even buy or them from and how it works? What I can't figure out is whether it’s actually safe and effective. Does it genuinely help you grow and is it a long term solution?

Would appreciate some suggestions and help.

I've been using Claude more lately and sometimes it feels like I'm talking to someone who has an opinion about everything

I'll ask something pretty normal and instead of just answering it sometimes I get a whole explanation about why I should think about the situation differently.

I get why safety rules exist but sometimes I just want a straightforward answer without feeling like I’m being lectured.

Does anyone else feel this way with Claude or am I just using it wrong?

I actually like Instagram but sometimes scrolling it makes the internet feel fake. Everyone seems to be doing better than you. Someone is travelling every week someone just bought a new car someone is making crazy money and another person is suddenly an expert at everything Then I open Reddit and it's completely different. People talk about things that went wrong. Failed projects bad days awkward situations getting burned by a client or just struggling with something normal. That's probably why I find the difference interesting. Instagram shows you what people want you to see while Reddit usually shows you what people actually experienced. And with AI content bots and automated engagement becoming more common on social platforms I'm starting to wonder how much of what we see is even genuine anymore Do you think Instagram has become too polished or is Reddit just a different kind of internet?

I actually don't mind AI being used in content.

If someone uses AI to remove background noise, clean up footage, brainstorm a hook or speed up editing, who cares?

The annoying stuff is when someone uses AI to produce something with absolutely nothing original behind it and then pumps out 50 versions of the same idea.

And now there's another weird problem where some creators are even dealing with content being wrongly treated as AI generated.

Where do you personally draw the line?

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Content creation is eating many hours a week between ideas, shooting, editing, captions, and scheduling across platforms. There has to be a way to cut the manual labor in half without killing quality

what tools and systems are people actually using?

So I have used different tools to build automations and AI agents(not those complex ones but simple repeated tasks).

And likewise people smarter than me would make complex AI agents and build it to cause harm like steal data, cause server overload etc etc.

This was my understanding, BUT what I just found out was there is something called a human backed AI agent.

Let me explain this as simply as I can. So it's a bot or an AI agent that carries your ID. These bots do the work on your behalf, carrying your ID. So for example, your bots would go to sites like booking a movie or buying something from Amazon but only way these sites know that it's you not some anonymous bot is through your ID. Pretty smart way to run your AI agents, I must say.

It's like you give orders (prompts) to your army (AI agents) and they do your bidding.

And apparently there is a lot of research going on and a lot of companies are pouring big budget on this.

It's blown my mind and I don't know what to think but I do sure wanna try it😂

I've started looking at comments before followers.

I'd rather see 500 people actually talking than an account with 500k followers and three comments that all look automated.

That's probably why fake engagement bothers me more now.

A follower number is easy to look at but it doesn't really tell you whether there's a community behind the account.

What do you personally look at to decide whether an account is actually popular?

There are way too many now
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini and like 10 more

I keep seeing people swear by different ones, so now I’m curious, which one actually works best for you when it comes to content?

Not looking for the best AI answer Just curious what people are actually using and why.

I can get an AI to generate a working prototype surprisingly quickly now.

The difficult part is explaining exactly what I want.

If I don't understand the problem properly I'll just get a very impressive solution to the wrong problem.

That's something I've noticed more and more while using Claude and ChatGPT Maybe the valuable skill isn't knowing every line of code anymore. Maybe it's knowing what you're actually trying to build.

Do you feel the same way?