I was 15 and my world was straightforward. School, homework, Clash of Clans.
When my friend group drifted I went looking for competition elsewhere. Found a war league on the Supercell forums. Followed a Discord link. Downloaded an app I’d never heard of just to stay in the game.
That’s how I found Discord.
I wasn’t looking for a career. I was looking for a clan.
But somewhere in a Clash Royale alliance called Legend Family I saw something that changed everything. A bot. Running in a server. Responding to commands. Hosting games people actually played. The footer said: Bot by GR8 | Titan.
I didn’t know what it was built with. I didn’t know how it worked. I just knew someone had built it.
Someone from my state mentioned it was a modified version of something called Red bot. Showed me briefly on his PC. I had no PC of my own.
So I opened Google Cloud Shell. Free. Browser based. Figured out enough to get it running.
The core commands worked. Some things broke. But it was online.
I was 15. No PC. No teacher. No roadmap.
But something was online that I had touched.
That was enough.