This walks you through creating a simple slash command bot from nothing to actually replying in your server.
- Create the project. From your Dashboard, click New Project, name it, and choose Discord Bot.
- Connect it to Discord. Follow the on-screen setup to connect your bot to a Discord application, see "Connecting your bot to Discord" for the full walkthrough if you get stuck.
- Create your first command. Go to the Commands tab and click Create the first command. Give it a name (e.g.
/hello) and a short description, members will see this description in Discord's own command picker. - Build its behavior. Inside the command editor, build what happens when it runs visually, for a first command, a single block that replies with a message is enough to prove everything's connected.
- Optional: react automatically. Explore the Events tab if you also want your bot to react to things happening in your server without a command being typed, see "Commands, Events, and Modules explained."
- Start the bot from your project's dashboard.
- Try it for real. Open your actual Discord server and run your new command, you should see it reply exactly as you configured.
Turn this into a video
A short script you can record with simple screen-capture software (OBS Studio, Loom, etc.) while following the steps above:
- Create a new Discord Bot project and show the Discord Developer Portal connection step.
- Create a first slash command from scratch, naming it and adding a simple reply action.
- Start the bot from the dashboard.
- Switch to Discord and actually run the new slash command live, showing the bot's reply.
Keep it under 3-5 minutes, screen-record your own editor while narrating, viewers learn faster watching a real build than reading steps alone.