{"schema":"discover.me/profile.v1","id":"ce62f4c1-38f4-477f-ba01-d4d901e398bd","handle":"mike","updatedAt":"2026-06-21T07:23:32.611Z","onboardingSource":"mcp","profile":{"id":"ce62f4c1-38f4-477f-ba01-d4d901e398bd","handle":"mike","name":"Mike Veldsink","headline":"CEO at Top.gg, Serial founder of many projects","bio":"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.\n\nMy 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.","location":"Netherlands","avatarUrl":"https://cdn.discover.me/avatars/VPSS0QK7rjtIDFuiBc0dmavWQ7ZlmpHR/720ffbcf-3dd0-4ce7-9403-4cc8ce3f322a.png","availability":"Open to collaborations, advising, selective investment conversations","status":"listed","visibility":"public","viewCount":90,"uniqueViewCount":51,"listedAt":"2026-06-21T07:23:32.611Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-21T07:23:32.611Z"},"links":[{"id":"ca1f3a1a-706b-4c6e-83b3-921b25d816e8","label":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com/velddev","sortOrder":0,"verified":true},{"id":"8e2bebb3-a5ca-4a2d-9c76-a779175e6609","label":"X","url":"https://x.com/velddev","sortOrder":1,"verified":false},{"id":"a4849710-14f8-4bc0-bb4a-0d2f58e5c1fc","label":"LinkedIn","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/velddev","sortOrder":2,"verified":false},{"id":"3f8eddd1-78a3-46dd-b380-67ff5ab0f6f5","label":"Top.gg","url":"https://top.gg","sortOrder":3,"verified":false},{"id":"34596667-b206-46f2-8627-e7854342fdc9","label":"Miki","url":"https://miki.bot","sortOrder":4,"verified":false}],"projects":[{"id":"949c33bd-c796-4f08-8960-7fa38d4e7f86","name":"Top.gg","url":"https://top.gg","repoUrl":null,"description":"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.","proof":"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.","status":"Active","tags":["gaming","creator tools","discovery","Discord","marketplace","search"],"sortOrder":0,"images":[]},{"id":"668c5a3e-faaa-44eb-9122-5006ef20a2f5","name":"Miki","url":"https://miki.bot","repoUrl":"https://github.com/veldtech/miki-bot","description":"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.","proof":"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.","status":"Active product; public repo archived after move into private monorepo","tags":["Discord","bots","community tooling","C#","gaming","creator tools"],"sortOrder":1,"images":[]}],"skills":[{"id":"a33bdd31-6c57-479d-b232-62f177fa68ec","name":"Search and discovery","category":"Product","context":"Top.gg: rebuilding discovery for Discord bots, apps, servers, announcements, analytics, and creator growth beyond simple vote rankings.","sortOrder":0},{"id":"786baded-d8b1-4ef3-bcef-ad5cc0347ad9","name":"Platform engineering","category":"Engineering","context":"Top.gg and Miki: TypeScript/Next.js frontend systems, C# backend/API services, Discord integrations, queues, cache layers, and production developer workflows.","sortOrder":1},{"id":"f996c5fc-0334-4bbd-a085-725f096ccd04","name":"Discord ecosystem strategy","category":"Community","context":"Built Miki as a Discord community bot and leads Top.gg, a large discovery surface for Discord bots, apps, and servers.","sortOrder":2},{"id":"3ffa1b68-bbed-462f-8d9c-d4c01f4f5a70","name":"Creator growth systems","category":"Product","context":"Top.gg: voting, analytics, announcements, ads/monetization, and ranking/discovery loops for bot and server creators.","sortOrder":3},{"id":"1b3ad7e1-7fe4-4adc-8b83-070b0f4407b7","name":"Community product leadership","category":"Leadership","context":"Top.gg public AMA recaps show direct community feedback loops, product direction, safety standards, creator support, and platform roadmap communication.","sortOrder":4}],"offers":[{"id":"af837d1d-8483-4b1b-aafa-8d17d9fe3ff4","title":"Collaborate on gaming and creator discovery products","description":"Open to serious collaborations around gaming communities, Discord/creator tooling, discovery surfaces, marketplace mechanics, and products that help builders reach the right audience.","kind":"collaboration","availability":"limited","availableFrom":null,"commitment":"flexible","locationMode":"remote","priceLabel":null,"priceCents":null,"pricePeriod":null,"sortOrder":0},{"id":"3edabf01-7e73-4578-bdec-e56f05f24c69","title":"Advise Discord, gaming, and creator-tool startups","description":"Advisory conversations for teams building in Discord, gaming communities, creator monetization, discovery/ranking, community safety, or marketplace-style growth loops.","kind":"advisory","availability":"limited","availableFrom":null,"commitment":"flexible","locationMode":"remote","priceLabel":null,"priceCents":null,"pricePeriod":null,"sortOrder":1},{"id":"ff7855b9-4834-4c0c-a188-492056b35612","title":"Selective investment and angel/advisor conversations","description":"Interested in selective conversations with founders building in gaming, creator platforms, community infrastructure, Discord ecosystems, discovery, and adjacent AI-enabled tooling.","kind":"investment","availability":"limited","availableFrom":null,"commitment":"flexible","locationMode":"remote","priceLabel":null,"priceCents":null,"pricePeriod":null,"sortOrder":2},{"id":"5c099b1c-921f-4758-b62b-aa08e62e70ba","title":"Hiring and team-building conversations","description":"Open to meeting strong builders, operators, product people, and community-minded engineers interested in large-scale gaming and creator discovery work.","kind":"collaboration","availability":"limited","availableFrom":null,"commitment":"flexible","locationMode":"remote","priceLabel":null,"priceCents":null,"pricePeriod":null,"sortOrder":3}],"posts":[],"press":[],"experience":[],"education":[],"verifications":[{"id":"f220face-8d87-4054-9593-586bf0ec6f48","subjectType":"github","subjectValue":"velddev","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/velddev","verifiedAt":"2026-06-21T07:19:40.595Z"}],"achievements":[{"id":"c5c47c66-9ed2-4896-b703-fef0166dd977","kind":"growth-milestone","source":"reddit","label":"Miki reached 6,000+ Discord servers after seven months","value":"6,000+ servers","sourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/54wdjp/hey_can_you_give_me_some_feedback_on_my_bot_miki/","badgeImageUrl":null,"occurredAt":null,"verifiedAt":null,"verified":false,"sortOrder":0},{"id":"34da88fb-6bd0-4b0b-a9b0-c3ec5d753949","kind":"downloads","source":"nuget","label":"Miki.Discord.Gateway.Distributed NuGet package downloads","value":"15.0K total downloads","sourceUrl":"https://nugetprodusnc.azure-api.net/packages/Miki.Discord.Gateway.Distributed","badgeImageUrl":null,"occurredAt":"2026-06-21T00:00:00.000Z","verifiedAt":null,"verified":false,"sortOrder":1}]}