Website is down and I'm bored.
There's one thing left to do.
Write a botmaking guide.
Now, im not gonna repeat all the basics. If you have zero idea what to do, go ahead, NTR me by reading Nick's guide.
My guide will focus on the higher aspects, as in, the mindset and how to get into trending.
But before we do that...

who do you write for and where my good ol' friend Nick is wrong

Recently, shep said 80% of the audience is on mobile. Before that, i heard the number that 80% of people use JLLM.
I dont know the exact overlap %% but it doesn't matter. What matters is, that just like with any other entertainment platform, the majority of userbase is casual.
Now, you might think, but shouldn't you focus on them? No.
The casual user is most likely to sort by popularity and just play those 50 million chats old bots. Even if they do somehow find your bot or profiile, they're extremely unlikely to leave a follow or be a repeated customer.
That's just how it works on every platform. I don't see why jai should be an exception.
Why does it matter?

Because a lot of Nick's so called "guide" is focused on writing for a dumb model like JLLM.

He gives "there's no elephant in the room" example. Go ahead and make a bot with just this line and test it on a PROXY.
If we take the 20% of the userbase who use proxy, it's gonna be majority deepseek, along with glm, gemini and grok.
All of these models are advanced enough to never spawn the fucking elephant.
There are nuances, of course. You'll still get characters mentioning "the room". They even might mention the absence of elephant.
But at no point the elephant will be present.

What should you do instead?

The best way is to reverse engineer bots. If you played a bot and some aspect of it just works in the way you didn't see in others, look in the defs and try to figure out what made it work in this way. I have defs open on all my older bots. There are ways to check the closed defs im not sure i can name because of TOS.
But what i can say, is that literally anything works.
I had defs ranging from a wall of text with the lack of any punctuation, to neat, organized sheets. Both work equally fine. AI is not a human. It just works, as long as your words form some kind of sentences. This is it.

Final preamble: how to tell a fake expert

The next chapters will feature a lot of "i don't know"'s
I remember watching Paul Harell's video on the topic of spotting fake experts.. If you don't know who he is, he is considered the most knowledgeable gun youtube personality. He passed away recently.
In his presentation he outlined the most obvious sign: a fake expert never admits they don't know something. They'll invent some bullshit on the spot(almost like a LLM sometimes does) and use their authority to gaslight as if they're speaking gospel.
This is why our good ol' friends guide seems big but a lot of information are best case assumptions, or just straight up lies.

actual guide begins?

Open defs vs closed defs: what gives you more interaction?

If you want to make male or wlw bots, the answer is easy, open defs all the time every time.
Women do longer roleplays on average, with time skips, having kids, up to dying of old age holding hands together.
This means they're more picky in picking the exact kinda character they want to roleplay with.

But if you're reading this, it probably doesn't apply.

If you make female bots for anypov/malepov your audience is 95+% male.
For male demographic, my answer is...i don't know.
I had a period where i posted closed defs, then when i was afraid Nick's gonna ban me i posted with open, so people could easily copy it to their private bots.
Haven't noticed any significant difference.

Write for your demo.

Bots made for men and women differ a lot. Even if you make anypov, you still have your main demographic.
Non-WLW Female bots are almost always premise based. Doesn't mean other bots don't have one, but it's not at the forefront.
Put premise in the title. "Vittoria Moretti" is for WLW bots. "Mafia boss dommes you" is for malepov/anypov.
Watch when the cutoff is and fit the hook before cutoff. Something like "You owe a debt to a Mafia boss" might get cutoff in the thumbnail to "You owe a debt to a M..." and it just ruins it. Find shorter words, omit articles, change the word order. "Mafia bitch owns you" would be better. Even if "you" is cut off, your brain can autofill from the context.

Premises: old or novel?

I don't know. Both work.
This website has a bunch of characters, tropes, and situations that were done a thousand times already. Yet, you open the trending page every day, and there they are. Sometimes you even see the comments, "sheesh well ain't i seen this crap a thousand times", yet there they are, getting views. We'll talk about one major reason why later.

All of my characters with highest views are rehashes of popular tropes from trending but with a novel touch.

The freeuse bot started because there was a basic freeuse bot getting absolutely massive numbers in trending and lots of comments complained how they're bored of the same thing. The penis inspection bot was because i liked the premise of another bot but the character was a bit flat and it wasn't really avoidable. The one with a steel pole is an amalgamation of five or so trending bot ideas.
Get inspired. Improve. Make it trend.

Intro messages

Intros are tricky.
Intro is simultaneously the least and the most important part of the bot.
Least important, because with the correctly written definitions, (i.e.: first person dialogue defs, a line defining the length of replies) the actual contents of the intro don't matter that much. You could get away with a very bland, short intro.
Just be ready for people to not like it.

Jai users have a certain expectation when it comes to the token values.

For some reason, most people have the mythical number of 2k tokens that differentiates the high effort bots from the slop.
If your bot isnt pure smut(more on pure smut later) then you should aim for that number. This means if your perm is at 1.5k, its generally a better idea to bloat your 400 token intro with an extra hundred.
Don't ask me why or where's the logic. I don't know. This is literally the part of the general Feng Shui of this website. You either know and follow it without asking questions or don't, but then don't complain why you don't trend.
For the smut the expectations are lower, but I've seen anything under 1k called slop so be ready for that.
I recently moved some base prompts to a lorebook for convenience, and for single character bots, even using first person defs, 1k feels a lot to fill already. Same prompts out of lorebook would bloat a few hundred extra tokens, but at this point i value convenience more. You do you.

The general, most trending intro range for non-wlw female bots is 300-500 tokens.

Less, and people call slop. More and people fall asleep.
"But intros are hard/boring to make." Yes. I know. This is why i leave them for last, although I've known a person who rawdogged intros first.
One thing you should absolutely NOT do is write an intro using the AI. It will ruin your bot. Trust me. Im not gonna go an AIslop rant or we'll be here forever.
Yes, that also includes writing the hook manually, then using AI to bloat it to a desired token value. Yes, I'm looking at you, Kalzk.
Speaking of hooks...

It's a good practice to include the main hook at the end of the intro.

A hook is a something that character does, or more often says, that gives an easy way to progress the plot, the more possible branches, the better.
Yes, sometimes a hook is not possible, as in a fully freeform cyoa RPGs, but even then, sometimes a preset intro or two might boost the engagement.
I've played some amazing bots that took the "ignoring the user" rule too much. Just a bit of handholding, please? Who am i? What am i supposed to do?

A trendy intro should be playable without reading the bio.

This is a rule many people ignore. Sometimes even i forget this and pay the price in chat numbers.
I'm not saying loredump everything. But the most important plot points must be mentioned in the intro.
A recent example: Leguy 2.0 or whatever he's called. Had a bot where a stepmom bitches about you spending your dad's money.
I glanced through the bio. Intro starts with her complaining about dad's credit card. Basically put her in her place/be her bitch kinda bot. Easy, right?
I tell her to fuck off. Not her money, not her issue. It's between me and my dad.
She then goes, honey, are you deranged? Dad had kicked the bucket. She controls all his money now. Whoops.
Yeah, just a minor inconsequential detail that not only is missing from the intro, but the intro implies they're still married (it mentioned you using his card specifically)
When i pointed this out in the comments, his reaction was a meltdown starting from "just read the bio" to calling my bots slop.
Don't be like Leguy.

bot bio or janitor users can't read

They can't. You'll have to deal with it. Anything in the bio that's not in the thumbnail and not a picture might as well not exist for 90% of users. Like it or not, that's the fact.
Don't ruin it with the AI. Assuming youre a normal person who writes manually, this is like running 40km of a marathon then jumping on an electric scooter to cheat for the rest of the run. You're almost there. Why ruin it at this point? If i see AI written bio i assume the entire bot is aislop. I'm just not going to double check it.
The space right at the top of the bio is a part of the thumbnail. You used to be able to write a quick snippet what the bot is about, but since the image library update most people use it for an extra pic or a gif.

If you want your bot to trend, you'd always place a GIF here.

This is the #1 meta pick on the current patch. If you want to make smut bots, ignore everything i said before, just drop a lewd pic and a gif and you're good to go. I'm sure everyone had seen people like Taaxr and Insaeres trend day after day. Name one thing they do that the bot that dies at page 40 with 100 messages doesn't. It's certainly not anything the defs or the depth of characters. It's the lewd GIF.
Human eye notices a moving thing in the landscape of static things. No, a good static pic or any kind of text clickbait cannot compete. If you're willing to spend extra time/effort, always go for a gif.

As for the main pic, not much i can say.

The meta changes quite often. Don't use realistic, and be as lewd as you can be without breaking tos are two rules i can give you. Upclose portraits sometimes work even if not lewd, but lewd is always more trendy.
Art styles are 100% FOTM. Right now every does Incase because of Nick's alt. Few months ago every other bot used ratata. Generic noseless, big eyes anime style always works.
People expect high quality art in general now. Perchance pics just don't cut it. You'll have to use Tensor or other alternatives.

time to drop

Most people use a specific scheduled time to drop their bots.
As any English speaking website, the audience on janitor is predominantly American. Whether it's better to drop it at 2pm when school's over or later during a more conventional "prime time", i don't know.
Just make sure you're not dropping it when Americans are asleep. I can't tell you the best time but i told you the worst to avoid.

NTR or the cheatcode for easy trending

It's not a secret the NTR ragebait gets trending every single time. I won't discuss reasons here, just give an opinion whether to use this trick.
From a purely numerical follower perspective, you'll reach a 1000 from 0 with NTR faster than 0 to 100 without NTR.
Even if 10% of NTR players are interested in other types of bots, you're already equal. Besides, if you ever plan to make NTR bots, might aswell begin your grind with them.
Understand that Anti-NTR is a cult. I've seen big creators branch with the most tasteful, nonragebait ntr. Their comment section is immediately full of cultists publicly denouncing and declaring how they unfollowed another one who fell to the ntr plague.
As for the effort, NTR bots have a mirrored correlation where the more low quality, low effort it appears, the higher engagement it gets. Use it.

Pulp fiction writing

I always was puzzled how come some of my lowest effort bots i wrote in less than half an hour had more engagement than some of the deepest, high effort ones. Yesterday i watched a yt vid on forgotten pulp fiction writer techniques and it clicked.
Those bots were over the top, energetic, and not super serious. The same vibe those old timey novels had. There is definitely a market for those types of bots.
Think of it: sometimes you're in a mood for something serious, and sometimes you just want something dumb. You'd think that "serious" is always better than dumb for an "artistic value" or something, and that's a whole other debate, but you can't argue that dumb things are sometimes just fun.

This is all for now. Its already a decent chunk of information to digest and use. I'll update it later. Thanks for reading ❤️

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Pub: 05 Dec 2025 16:03 UTC

Edit: 27 Dec 2025 10:31 UTC

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