Unity Developer Andriy Mahas talked about the creation of the IndieSafe Telegram bot, which helps IT professionals looking for a job in game development. What are its capabilities?
Unity Developer Andriy Mahas talked about the creation of the IndieSafe Telegram bot, which helps IT professionals looking for a job in game development. What are its capabilities?
According to Andriy, he was inspired to create the bot by a case when one of the subscribers of the UA Game Development group asked if anyone had information about a company working in game development.
«There is zero information on the Internet, silence in the group. I sent him a few more groups, and in one of them he did find a blacklist where this company was already mentioned as a scam. He found out the truth, thanked me, and said that without this information he could have gotten into an unpleasant situation», — Mahas wrote.
After that, he created the IndieSafe bot, which has a blacklist of studios and recruiters that developers have complained about. Andriy Mahas promises that he will regularly update this list based on data from open sources such as Telegram and LinkedIn. IndieSafe also serves as a platform for finding jobs.
«The main idea of the bot is to allow everyone to quickly check suspicious companies in game development so as not to fall for a scam. To make the bot even more useful, I added the ability to find work or performers as a bonus», — the IT expert explained.
According to him, IndieSafe is completely free; to use it, you need to be subscribed to the UA Game Development channel.
