How I built a RAG-grounded Discord brain in 5 weeks (solo, ESL, no funding)
Peng, a solo founder and ESL teacher, developed Acortia, a Discord-native tool designed to improve knowledge retrieval within communities. The product aims to address the issue of lost information in Discord threads by allowing users to save and ask questions about previously shared content. Acortia is set to launch in mid-June for $99 per month, with a focus on providing grounded, cited answers from the server's saved knowledge.
- ▪Acortia is a tool that helps Discord communities retrieve institutional knowledge effectively.
- ▪The product features three main commands: /save, /ask, and /sources.
- ▪Peng built Acortia without funding or a team, working on it during nights and weekends.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3914325) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } pengspirit Posted on Jun 3 How I built a RAG-grounded Discord brain in 5 weeks (solo, ESL, no funding) #discord #rag #supabase #indiehackers Day 14. The fourth time. A user in our Discord asked, for the fourth time that week, the same question. Same wording, almost. The first three answers were buried somewhere in a thread, a pinned message, and a Notion page nobody bookmarked. A mod typed it out again. I watched it happen, opened Cursor, and started typing.
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