I make PluralKit[0], a FOSS[1] Discord bot designed as an accessibility tool for plural systems [2]. A lot of people say it's really helpful to them, some even say essential, so it probably fits under meaningful :p
It had massive growth the last couple years, going from 20k discord guilds to almost 500k now, making it one of the largest bots on the platform.
I was always interested in computing (to the point of asking my dad how to install linux when I was 6, not that he knew how to help lol) but only got started with programming (at about twice that age) when I started getting annoyed at how exactly computers worked, and figured out I can make them do different things with code.
I started working on PluralKit itself a few years ago - already a year or so after someone else created it - because I was struggling to find my own identity and this project helped a lot, and I guess I stuck with it!
I hope to make it a full-time job soon, but I am very much not a business person and it's a bit of a struggle to figure out the details.
For me, code is of course a tool to make machines do things I need it to, but more importantly it's art - what I do is something that helps people rather than harm them (cough adtech cough), and I think that's beautiful.
I was always interested in computing (to the point of asking my dad how to install linux when I was 6, not that he knew how to help lol) but only got started with programming (at about twice that age) when I started getting annoyed at how exactly computers worked, and figured out I can make them do different things with code.
I started working on PluralKit itself a few years ago - already a year or so after someone else created it - because I was struggling to find my own identity and this project helped a lot, and I guess I stuck with it! I hope to make it a full-time job soon, but I am very much not a business person and it's a bit of a struggle to figure out the details.
For me, code is of course a tool to make machines do things I need it to, but more importantly it's art - what I do is something that helps people rather than harm them (cough adtech cough), and I think that's beautiful.
[0] https://pluralkit.me [1] https://github.com/pluralkit/pluralkit [2] <https://morethanone.info>