Supporting what we use

At Doras, we utilize a lot of open source technology to achieve what we've built here. So much of what we build and do is thanks to the open source community, like many other companies. We believe that anything that can be open source, should be open source. And anything you can support, you should. So much of the world is built up on top of things built my people in their free time, and even the smallest donation can help. Below is a tally of open source projects and creators that Doras supports through either sponsoring/donations, or my contributing back to the original source code. Unsend is what Doras is using moving forward as our email provider. It is an open source emailing system built on top of AWS that can be self hosted with your own credentials or utilized through their cloud offering. Doras both supports Unsend with a monthly sponsorship on GitHub, as well as contributing to the source code. Exeldro is one of the most known OBS plugin developers, building such plugins like the , , and many more. As a community of streamers and content creators, we wanted to help these tools flourish and help the development of these amazing tools. Doras supports Exeldro with a monthly sponsorship on GitHub. Doras literally could not run without Coolify (built my coolLabs), as our primary infrastructure and deployment management solution. Coolify helps us do what we need to do, and cut our hosting bills by being able to drop Vercel as our hosting provider. Additionally, a lot of us at Doras use Coolify at home for our homelab services too. It's the perfect tool. Doras supports coolLabs with a monthly sponsorship on GitHub.

Bluesky @handle as your Doras domain

Bluesky: The Future of Social Media with Custom Handles In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, has emerged as a promising platform that's redefining how we interact online. At its core, Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging service that bears a striking resemblance to Twitter/X, allowing users to share short posts, images, and videos. However, what sets Bluesky apart is its innovative approach to user identity and verification through custom handles. Understanding Custom Handles on Bluesky Unlike traditional social media platforms where usernames are typically confined to the platform's domain, Bluesky introduces a revolutionary concept similar to Mastodon: custom domain handles. This means that instead of being limited to a handle like @username.bsky.social, users can utilize their own domain names as their Bluesky identifiers. For instance, if you own the domain "example.com," you could potentially use @you.example.com as your Bluesky handle. This feature is not just a cosmetic change; it's a fundamental shift in how online identity is managed and verified. The Importance of Custom Handles Custom handles on Bluesky offer several significant advantages: 1. Verified Identity : By using a domain you own, you're essentially self-verifying your identity. This builds trust and credibility among other users. 2. Brand Consistency : For businesses and content creators, using your brand's domain as your handle ensures consistency across different online platforms. 3. Improved Discoverability : A unique, branded handle makes it easier for others to find and remember you on the platform. 4. Portability : In the decentralized world of Bluesky, custom handles offer unprecedented account portability. You can potentially move your account between different providers without losing your identity or followers. Doras.to: Empowering Users with Custom Handles This is where Doras comes into play, offering a seamless solution for Bluesky users. By allowing people to connect their Doras subdomain (username.doras.to) as their Bluesky handle, Doras is providing a valuable service that enhances users' online presence. Here's why this is fantastic: 1. Simplicity : Not everyone owns a personal domain, but Doras makes it easy for anyone to have a custom Bluesky handle. 2. Consistant Appearance : A handle like @username.doras.to can be more consistent and will directly show your users where your link in bio is. 3. Community Building : By using Doras, users become part of a community of like-minded individuals who value their online identity and proudly promote their Doras profile. 4. Future-Proofing : As the decentralized web grows, having a custom handle through Doras positions users to take full advantage of future developments in the space. Embracing the Future of Social Media Bluesky's approach to custom handles, combined with services like Doras, is paving the way for a more user-centric, decentralized social media experience. It's not just about having a unique username; it's about owning your online identity and having the freedom to take it with you across the digital landscape. By offering the ability to use Doras subdomains as Bluesky handles, we're not just providing a service – we're empowering users to take control of their online presence in this exciting new era of social media. As Bluesky continues to grow and evolve, those who embrace custom handles will find themselves at the forefront of this digital revolution. With Doras, you're not just joining a platform; you're staking your claim in the future of online interaction. Check out this awesome video by Get yours today In order to get started, simply log into your Doras profile and add it from the Command Center.

Bluesky, Analytics, and even more awesome updates just dropped

Doras v0.3.3 just dropped with some amazing updates we're so excited to share with you all! From being able to add your Doras domain to your Bsky account, to helping you drill into your analytics and so many QoL updates this time around. 🦋 Bsky handle = your Doras domain You can now connect your Bluesky account to get your Doras domain on Blusky! This basically means that you can have a Bsky handle like mine: This has been a requested feature since Bsky started taking the world by storm, and we're delighted to bring it to all our users. To get started, simply head over to the Command Center, or . 📊 Analytics Overhaul One of the most common complaints about Doras was our analytics. We get it, it absolutely wasn't in a great place. And while there's absolutely more work to be done, we're absolutely delighted to bring these changes. You can now specify specific dates to see what's going on, see where your traffic is coming from, calculate your click through rate percentages, and even break down where your users are located. There's still more to come, like bringing in other analytical data such as from your short links & blogs, but we're heading in the right direction and the release today helps us shape the path to what's to come. We know how important analytics are for creators, businesses, and everything in between, and we're determined to strengthen this section of Doras to help you build your brand. 📱 Mobile Improvements I can personally say, I hated using Doras on mobile. We work around the clock, and that sometimes means I get a ping while in bed to take a look at something. 9 times out of 10, it resulted in me needing to get up out of bed to grab my laptop because Doras was just so unusable on the phone. With this release, we've greatly improved mobile navigation and how certain pages work to make it more user friendly no matter what device you happen to be using. I'm sure I won't be the only person to appreciate the hours spent on this. ⌨️ Command Center Overhaul In version v0.3.0 we launched the Command Center. You know, that popup with the sidebar that happens when you click certain items on the sidebar? Well, before even launching it we we're already cooking on a v2 that's finally been released. Now you can access so much more like some basic profile settings and options. You'll rarely ever need to head to a settings page again, it can all be accessed on any page! 📝 Blogging Make Easier We've introduced some awesome quality of life fixes to how blogging works. Most notably you can now see a dashed line between columns when writing a blog post, helping you understand the current layout of your blog post. Additionally, we've brought back the "Back" button on all blog posts, not just for brand account blogs. Going further, we initially didn't allow free users to edit existing blog posts once they hit the 5 post limit. This has been reverted after some user feedback! 🚀 Homepage Improvements We've updated many pages in this release, mostly the main doras.to homepage, and /admin on both user and brands. Let's break it down piece by piece! We're committed to keep bringing the awesome updates coming, and know that 2025 is going to be a massive year with so much more awesome and amazing tools coming. Stay tuned, let us cook.

Awesome updates never stop coming at Doras

Blogging has always been a vital and important part of our progression, and we're so delighted to bring it to all of our amazing users. We've loved reading your blogs, and sharing them across our social platforms, and we look forward to seeing more and more of them! There's been some improvements to the feature too over the last few weeks, such as the ability to delete categories, a brand new editor, and a better way to visualize them! We've also been playing around with RSS feed compatibility, but it's still a little "under-cooked"! We'll have more on this in the future, but you can feel free to test it out like this: Our asset manager got a major facelift, closing out some bugs and feature requests! It's not a lot more mobile friendly, reactive, but also has folder support as well as different viewing options between viewing items in a list vs the standard grid! We've greatly improved our StreamerBot integration for our Doras users who stream on Twitch. This enables any streamer the ability to do away with their terrible chat bots for auto posting social links an utilize their link in bio for their chat bot! It's super configurable, and very simple to implement. Check out our docs and tutorial video on the matter if you need it: We're always looking for feedback, as well as promote you! If you're interested in leaving a testimonial for Doras for us to potentially place on our homepage for all to see, consider taking a few moments to check it out here: Our holiday sale continues! Use code HOLIDAYS at checkout of any paid subscription to get 50% off your next three months, no questions asked! Keep up to date with everything by following our socials, and join our Discord!

Streamline Your Social Media Promotion with Doras Streamerbot Integration

As a content creator, promoting your social media presence is crucial for growing your audience across multiple platforms. However, manually updating and posting your social media links in Twitch chat can be a tedious and time-consuming task, especially when using traditional chatbots like StreamElements or Nightbot. Let's explore why this process can be frustrating and how the Doras Streamerbot integration offers a superior solution. The Challenges of Traditional Chatbots When using StreamElements or Nightbot to auto-post your social media links, you often encounter several issues: Introducing the Doras Streamerbot Integration The Doras Streamerbot integration offers a game-changing solution to these common pain points. Here's how it can improve your social media promotion: Benefits for Streamers Implementing the Doras Streamerbot integration offers several advantages: Getting Started To take advantage of this powerful integration, simply set up your Doras profile with all your current social media links and ensure you have Streamerbot installed and connected your Twitch account. Once you've done that, simply head over to our GitHub and download the latest version. In Streamerbot, click "import" and either upload the file you just downloaded, or copy/paste the import string. From the sub-actions, simply replace add your Doras username where it tells you to. Press Save, and enjoy! 🚀 We may update the integration from time to time, but we'll always let you know when new features are available! Keep an eye on our and social medias and we'll keep you in the know!

Earn Money with your Doras profile today!

Become a Doras Affiliate We're thrilled to introduce the Doras Affiliate Program. By joining our growing Doras family, you'll play a crucial role in connecting us with the vibrant communities we've all worked so hard to build. Our program is tailored for inspiring creators, startups, and community leaders who aren't afraid to share their thoughts and help us enhance our products for everyone's benefit, while showcasing how Doras can elevate any creator's or SMBs presence online! What does it mean to be part of the Doras Affiliate Program? 1. 🎭 Exclusive Access As a Doras Affiliate, you're not just another face in the crowd – you're an extension of our team! You'll get early access to our latest products and features, ensuring you're always at the cutting edge of what's out there, helping shape the way to the best service out there. 2. 🚀 Amplify Your Growth We're always committed to your success. Our program offers unique opportunities to boost your visibility, including featured spots on our website, social media shoutouts, and collaborative projects with fellow affiliates. Your success is our success! 3. 💡 Shape the Future Your voice matters! As an affiliate, you'll have a direct line to our development team. Share your insights, suggest improvements, and help shape the future of Doras products. 4. 🎁 Rewards and Perks Enjoy a competitive commission structure on sales generated through your unique affiliate link. All of our affiliates receive a special affiliate link and discount helping you earn 30% on every subscription, every month! Plus, receive exclusive Doras merchandise with special discounts on our merch range. Our merch is sold "at cost" for our affiliates to help it get into your hands. 5. 🤝 Community Building All affiliates are granted a special Discord role at the top of our server as well as having access to an "affiliate only" channel where you can network with like-minded creators, share tips, and get first-hand support from the Doras team. 6. 📣 Brand Ambassador Opportunities Stand out from the crowd with chances to represent Doras at events, participate in product launches, and be featured in our marketing campaigns. 7. 🎉 Exclusive Giveaways Engage your audience with Doras giveaways, helping you grow your community while showcasing our innovative solutions. ✨ Perks For Doras Affiliates ✨ (TL;DR) How Do I Apply? Ready to join the Doras family? We're always on the lookout for passionate creators who align with our vision. Click the button below to submit your application. Our team will review it and get back to you soon! Join us in shaping the future of content creation with Doras!

Blogging For Everyone

Blogging is now here for everyone on Doras! Blogging is a super important feature for us at Doras, and we're so happy to bring it to everyone. You can learn more about blogging below. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to us in our Discord, or on a ticket.

October Updates

We've been quiet, but we've been cooking! As always, it's Tom here from Doras, and I want to outline some important changes coming on November 16th! Important things first The update on November 16th is no usual update. Majority of us on the team will clock in at 11pm on November 15th GMT to prepare for a major change... Swapping hosting providers & moving over to our own servers. A few months ago, we brought in a new team member and the first thing we started discussing was getting off of for hosting. While it was helpful at the start, as we grow, so do our costs, and Vercel is being one of the latest dents in this. Even though we've limited the amount we rely on them, they lock some pretty helpful and needed features behind paywalls we just can't fathom, especially with a lot of us on the team work with hosted infrastructure in our "real world jobs". We can't see metrics we'd want, troubleshoot as we'd want, or even dump our logs to an external service without paying a premium. We've spent about 4 months working on this, and now we're ready. We've built up our own infrastructure, fail-overs, backups, logging, and even APIs and internal tools to build and publish Doras the best we can. And although right now it's "technically" more expensive than what we had with Vercel, we have enough headroom to grow tenfold without needing to worry about costs increasing. Why are we telling you this? We build in public! We figure there's some of you out there interested in our progression, our processes, and how we do things. Being open about these things is really important to be honest, I love reading things like that. BUT , there's more than just that. If you have a custom domain, listen up! You were sent an email a few weeks ago, but I'll reiterate it here: If you have a custom domain and it's pointing to the "A" record 76.76.21.21 you'll need to update this! There's a very important post that you can find out more from . Here's how we'll be notifying you all about the changes: Inlcuded with the DNS update, we're also adding a "domain verification" TXT record that users will need to add, but we'll be making sure that it isn't required initially for the migration. Some more awesome updates The migration isn't just an update to the hosting, we've also got some awesome UI improvements and features heavily requested being added! Sidebar improvements The sidebar has had a major overhaul, with better layout of options, being more dynamic and updating in real time, and it can now even be shrunk down to the icons should you want to work that way. The sidebar is an integral and very important part of Doras and how you utilize all the tools, and I'm so happy to have something to reflect it. Command Center We had a lot of feedback with people not knowing where their QR Codes are, the Twitch Panel image, or our integration with StreamerBot is located. Basically, anything inside the "Share" button at the bottom of your sidebar. Well come November 16th, we're introducing the "Command Center". It can be opened by some icons on the sidebar that would have previously gone to specific pages or opened single use popups, but now we're integrating a lot more into this. The "Command Center" will house some basic profile settings, a quick place to see all your brand accounts, sharing options, and even a native search option to find anything on Doras! This is just the beginning, and we plan on bringing more and more power into here as a single place to find and control all the things. QR Codes for Shortlinks Shortlinks will finally have QR codes assigned to them, allowing you to create a QR code for any link you'd like, not just your profile! This has been a crazy few months We're so excited to bring this forward, and have so much more to do. Being busy is always good, and getting to show you all the work we've done is always fantastic. With this update, the process of incorporating Doras as a legitimate company, and all the opportunities we've had so far, we can't wait to bring more to the table. I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it, we're nothing without you guys, and to all of those who support us, seriously, thank you. ❤️ If you don't have Doras Pro yet, try it out for free using the code K1ODEWNA . That's Doras Pro, free for one month! This has been a long one, signing off! , Co-founder of

Updates to DNS

Today we sent out an email to all domain holders about changes to our systems. From November 15th, we're moving hosting providers from Vercel over to our own self hosted solution. This affects users who have custom domains set up with A records pointing to 76.76.21.21 . What do I need to do? Once this is completed, your custom domain should comeback within a few minutes. FAQ What happens if I don't update my domain? There's an option for A and CNAME records, do I do both? My DNS provider won't allow me to use the CNAME method on the root domain Is there any documentation regarding this? Why are we migrating hosts? We will be keeping the FAQ up to date as questions and concerns come in! If you have any questions, please feel free to jump into the and we'll be more than happy to help. If Discord isn't your thing, we also have a built in where a member of staff will be able to help.

Livestream Announcements In Your Discord Server

Livestream Announcements To Your Discord Introducing the Doras Discord App, bringing content creators more power and control and enhancing how you interact with your users. The Doras Discord App/Bot can be added to your Discord with a single click, or it can even be hosted on your own systems! It's fully open source, and fully built with community in mind, like everything we do around here. What can it do? Twitch The Doras Discord App makes it super simple to add it to your server and manage as many livestream notifications as you wish! VOD support When you add a stream, you can choose if you want it to disappear when the stream is over, or have it remain as a VOD link. Most bots don't dynamically update, so it's quite hard to tell if the stream is still live hours later. With the Doras App, it's super simple. Role pings As you add a streamer, you have the choice to have the bot mention any role, or even @everyone should you desire. Custom messages You can additionally customize each live notification message, adding some additional flare to each notification you send out!