CEO at Top.gg, Serial founder of many projects

I build B2C products specifically inside of gaming. I am the CEO of Top.gg, a discovery platform for Discord bots, apps, and communities, and I previously built Miki, one of the first viral Discord bots.

My work sits between product, engineering, creator growth, search and discovery, and platform operations: turning noisy community ecosystems into something people can trust, browse, and build on. I am especially interested in collaborators who care about gaming communities, creator tooling, and scalable systems.

Projects

Products, platforms, and prototypes.

Top.gg

A discovery platform for Discord bots, apps, servers, and gaming communities. The work spans creator onboarding, search and discovery, voting, announcements, analytics, moderation workflows, monetization, and the backend/API systems that keep a large community marketplace useful and trustworthy.

Top.gg's public site describes the product as a place to explore millions of Discord bots and apps. Top.gg's September 2025 and December 2025 public AMA recaps name Mike Veldsink / Veld as CEO and discuss the platform's search/discovery rebuild, analytics, announcements, and shift toward more proactive discovery.

Active

gamingcreator toolsdiscoveryDiscordmarketplacesearch

Miki

A long-running multipurpose Discord bot for community building, reportedly used in roughly 255,000 guilds: leveling, role management, leaderboards, achievements, profiles, currency, games, custom commands, and related social systems for Discord servers.

A user-provided Discord profile screenshot shows Miki#6045 was created on 17 Mar 2016. Mike reports current usage at roughly 255,000 guilds. Miki's Top.gg listing shows the bot, current feature set, 4.75 rating, and public usage signal. The public GitHub repo describes Miki as a Discord community bot and shows 158 stars, 45 forks, and 1,378 commits before being archived in 2024. A 2016 Reddit post by velddev says Miki had reached 6,000+ servers after seven months of work.

Active product; public repo archived after move into private monorepo

Discordbotscommunity toolingC#gamingcreator tools
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Proof

Milestones, rankings, and results.

Skills

The work Mike is useful for.

Search and discovery
Platform engineering
Discord ecosystem strategy
Creator growth systems
Community product leadership

Work with Mike

Selected advisory and build work.

Collaborate on gaming and creator discovery products

Collaboration

FlexibleRemote

Open to serious collaborations around gaming communities, Discord/creator tooling, discovery surfaces, marketplace mechanics, and products that help builders reach the right audience.

Custom

Advise Discord, gaming, and creator-tool startups

Advisory

FlexibleRemote

Advisory conversations for teams building in Discord, gaming communities, creator monetization, discovery/ranking, community safety, or marketplace-style growth loops.

Custom

Selective investment and angel/advisor conversations

Investment

FlexibleRemote

Interested in selective conversations with founders building in gaming, creator platforms, community infrastructure, Discord ecosystems, discovery, and adjacent AI-enabled tooling.

Custom

Hiring and team-building conversations

Collaboration

FlexibleRemote

Open to meeting strong builders, operators, product people, and community-minded engineers interested in large-scale gaming and creator discovery work.

Custom