Hello there! My name is Basti Ortiz. I build projects that make people's lives easier—one app at a time. I am best known as the creator and lead maintainer for...

• Spectro: a free and open-source multi-channel confession bot for Discord. Boasting over a hundred daily users across several university Discord servers, Spectro is an invaluable service to those who rely on anonymous message posting for their daily dose of technical discourse, academic inquiries, heated rants, quick-witted quips, and other social opportunities.
• Typscord: a free and open-source Discord bot making typesetting with Typst accessible and convenient to @everyone. Typscord is used by students to enrich academic discussions and online study sessions.
• Chrozone: a free and open-source Discord for timezone utilities. Chrozone is used by international collaborators across borders to synchronize work and deadlines.
• DRAP: the Draft Ranking Automated Processor of the University of the Philippines - Diliman (UPD), Department of Computer Science (DCS). DRAP automates the annual draft and lottery of lab assignments for incoming senior computer science students. Managing over a hundred student rankings, multiple rounds of research lab drafting, and hundreds of emails every year, DRAP takes a huge weight off the shoulders of DCS administrators.
• Basti's SvelteKit + Tailwind Template: a minimal but highly opinionated starter template for new SvelteKit + Tailwind projects. This repository is an influential template among web developers at the UPD DCS, where I was best known for teaching and popularizing the Svelte framework during my term as the Director for Engineering at UP Center for Student Innovations.

Now, hosting these projects are fortunately still within the limits of most free tiers by cloud hosting providers—albeit with constrained resources and spotty reliability at times. This is where you can help.

By supporting my GitHub Sponsors, you will be directly funding my runway for hosting these apps (present and future!) in higher tiers—ultimately making the experience better for everyone, especially the students who rely on my apps every day for their daily work and community interactions.