We use AI to build Detraly

Hey! I’m Sanel. I built Detraly with my friend. I’ve been programming hobby projects since 2020, and some Roblox games with Finn. We used to make a bunch of Minecraft servers in Minehut and some Roblox games and a Steam game as well.

When we used to run servers ourselves, we always wondered what our peak player was tonight (cus when Americans were awake, we used to be asleep), we tried various plugins but they just never worked with our workflow, they all required ports but our hosting never supported ports, it came to a point where we decided to create a plugin on our own, originally Detraly started as a small project in late 2024, but we eventually lost our motivation but we still had the drive to make something big.

As life moved on, I got into college, he completed his high school and we really wanted to do something this time. Since we worked on Detraly, I have been doing many freelancing projects, collecting web development experiences and some going as far as to production to serve over 500 users of traffic, (small but it meant something to me). We eventually got that spark again and with all the knowledge we accumulated over time, we decided to recreate Detraly.

We want to be upfront: we use Claude to assist us to build Detraly. We decided what Detraly does, how it works, we read every text it spits out, we had a proper CI/CD pipeline, we run tests on every change before it ships.

We know how a lot of people feel about AI, and we honestly we get it. There’s too many low effort AI slop, websites that have critical vulnerabilities every day, so many bugs that nobody checked, and not just that, it’s also about how AI models are trained and what it costs the environment. We’re not disagreeing with that our countering it. We just want you to hear about Detraly using AI from us, unlike others who hide the use of AI. AI disclosure is important.

We know how bad AI is with security. It makes mistakes some really dumb ones, it feels like the code is good but usually has holes in it. We want to point one thing out, most of the time it’s not really the AI, it’s usually the person behind it. If someone types one prompt, never reads the text it spits out, never runs single tests, never worked on real software in production, of course it’s gonna be a mess.

We try to be more responsible with AI, I spend a lot of time reading every line it spits out, run proper tests on everything it does. I know the code inside out, every system and how they all work.

Even then, we’re just two people, we are going to miss things. If you find a bug or a vulnerability, message us at support@detraly.com or raise a ticket in our Discord server, if it’s real, we’ll fix it ASAP.

If you have ANY question about how we built Detraly, what it does, your data’s security, ask us and we shall respond.

— Sanel

(psst, i enabled indexing and follow on this article, we are not scared to hide AI usage and we understand it's importance unlike some of those Discord Bots 😉😉)