# I needed a simple Discord bot. Val Town made it fun!

DevFeed: [I needed a simple Discord bot. Val Town made it fun!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-needed-a-simple-discord-bot-val-town-made-it-fun-5973.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://turso.tech/blog/i-needed-a-simple-discord-bot-val-town-made-it-fun-bf8339ab>)

Author: Glauber Costa

Published: 2024-01-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Turso Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/turso-blog.md>)

Topics: [Val Town](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/val-town.md>), [Discord bot](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/discord-bot.md>), [Discord](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/discord.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [application-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application-development.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [discord](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/discord.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [val-town](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/val-town.md>)

## AI overview

The author describes building a simple Discord bot with Val Town to notify Slack users about new messages in active Discord threads. Val Town's scheduled function execution made the project practical within a limited time, while the code was organized into higher-level logic and an independently testable inner function.

## Source excerpt

Creating a Discord threads notification bot for Slack using Val Town.