V-Host: Minecraft hosting with a Discord bot that's actually wired into the server

I run Minecraft servers for my own friend group, and I got tired of the same gap in every hosting option out there. The ticket-queue hosts (Aternos, Apex, Shockbyte, Hostinger) can spin up a server fast, but they have no idea what's happening in your Discord. The tools that live in Discord don't actually touch the game server, they're just chat bots bolted on the side.

So I built V-Host. It's Minecraft hosting plus a Discord bot with real access to the live server: whitelist requests handled by reaction, live status and player count on demand, playtime tracking and a two way chat bridge so your Discord and your Minecraft server are actually talking to each other. Since I'm the one running the servers, if something breaks, you're talking to the person who can fix it.

Right now I'm doing something a bit unusual before I commit to spending on a bigger server. Instead of a free "I'm interested" form, I'm asking for a 5 euro fully refundable deposit. If 10 people reserve by the end of September, the real production server gets built and that deposit counts toward the first month. If it doesn't hit 10, everyone gets refunded automatically and nothing else happens. I'd rather find out now whether there's real demand than guess and build the wrong thing.

It's very early, the counter is genuinely at 0 right now since I just opened this, so I'd love feedback both on the product and on the deposit approach as a validation mechanic. Has anyone else here used a paid deposit instead of a waitlist to test demand before spending on infra?

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