Hey everyone, 2 years ago on the 24th of January 2021 I created Rynx, a multi-purpose bot mainly built for analysing hypixel skyblock ingame stats.
Today, it has reached an incredible amount of 157 servers with a total of 56495 members.

Originally it had just one command, retrieving and calculating the networth of any given skyblock player. But everything worked so well, I was soon motivated for more.
I was seeing lots of posts from people linking their profile on reddit and asking for what stage they're in, so the next command I implemented was to automatically look up their profiles for an educated guess. I experimented a lot, with the most complicated features I released being the networth and stage calculation, a complete server activity analysis, and a full scan for known scammers.
I expanded and maintained these features over time, spending hundreds of hours implementing new ideas, improving the bots calculations, building its own website, and (last but also least exciting) fixing bugs and solving problems.

From the beginning on I hoped for people supporting my project, and indeed I received lots of positive feedback and ideas for improvement, however I never received a single donation. I didn't want to add paywalls for users or pay lots of my own money for hosting etc., so I struggled with unstable free hosts, sponsored servers and free credits. This april, the last $100 of student credit will run out on my current hosting.

All good things come to an end, and I have moved on from playing skyblock for a while now. The bot has become rarely used by anyone anymore so there just isn't enough motivation for me to continue it and spending time I could spend otherwise. With these last $100 credit running out, I will be taking it down forever.
It was a great experience from which I learned a lot, but Rynx has now reached its end of life.

Cheers,
Ruben (17th of March 2023)