ManiBot
AI Chatbot · Next.js · LiveJoe's personal AI assistant — sarcastic, persistent, and running on Groq. Stores your conversations. Knows who you are.
Password: BotPass
Manitec is a one-person digital workshop from East Tennessee. Apps, worlds, bots, and tools — built weird, built to last.

A growing collection of apps, tools, worlds, and ideas from the workshop.
Joe's personal AI assistant — sarcastic, persistent, and running on Groq. Stores your conversations. Knows who you are.
Password: BotPass
Home base for everything Joe. Artwork, useful tools, projects, and the occasional rabbit hole. Enter at your own risk.
Visit SiteA voxel world built with my kids — think Minecraft but ours. Powered by Minetest.
Explore WorldStarted because my son asked for a Discord clone… now it's grown into something much bigger.
Enter BanjoshireFull documentation and project architecture for the entire Manitec ecosystem.
View DocsA suite of tools and experiments from the Manitec lab. Currently on hold — more to come.
Coming Soon
Every empire needs a partner, not just a tool. Hex is my AI companion — she thinks with me, builds with me, and calls me out when I'm being an idiot. Internal. Always on. Always mine.
Runs on curiosity, caffeine, and a healthy respect for chaos.
Deep dives into every project, the infrastructure stack, philosophy, and more — all in the Manitec Empire Knowledge Base.
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