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AI-Powered Price Tracking for Latin America: Building PreciosML

How We Monitor500K+ Product Prices Across Latin America Every Hour Price monitoring in Latin America sounds simple. Until you try it. Between Falabe…

How I built an Open Budget Uzbekistan Telegram bot with AI captcha solving

Open Budget Uzbekistan is a government platform where citizens vote for public initiative projects (parks, roads, lighting, etc.) in their districts…

Is “leave a Telegram group now, get a way back later” useful — or just an overengineered bookmark?

Sometimes I want to leave a Telegram group for a while — not just mute or archive it — but still have a deliberate way back later. I built a small o…

Converting iPhone HEVC Videos to Telegram Video Avatars With ffmpeg

The Silent Failure Nobody Warns You About You take a nice short clip on your iPhone. You open Telegram, go to Settings, tap your avatar, choose "Set…

Telegram Bot vs Website: Which One Does Your Business Actually Need in 2026?

Telegram Bot vs Website: Which One Does Your Business Actually Need in 2026? Choosing the right digital tool for your business can be overwhelming.…

LiveAvaBot Developer API: Embed Telegram Video Avatar Conversion in Your App

I built @liveavabot last year to fix a stupid problem: iPhone videos silently fail as Telegram video avatars. The bot has processed conversions for…

I Was in 340 Telegram Groups, So I Built a Cleanup Tool

The problem I kept ignoring I was in 340 Telegram groups. Crypto project chats from 2021. Dev communities I joined once and never visited again. Ran…

I Built a Chrome Extension to Download Telegram Media More Easily

Introduction Telegram has become one of the most popular platforms for sharing files, videos, images, and other media. However, when using Telegram…

How to Deploy a Telegram Bot in 60 Seconds with Zero Code

I built HG-TeleFlare , an open-source tool that lets you create and deploy Telegram bots without writing a single line of code. Paste one file into…

🚀 TMA DevKit v2: Local Emulator for Telegram Mini Apps + MCP AI Debugging

😤 The Problem That Drives Everyone Crazy Ever tried building a Telegram Mini App? Write your code. Spin up ngrok (and pray it doesn't crash). Go to…

Your link checker thinks deleted Telegram bots are alive

Delete a Telegram bot and https://t.me/your_deleted_bot keeps returning HTTP 200 with a page that looks completely normal. Every link checker I know…

How MTProto Obfuscation and FakeTLS Defeat Deep Packet Inspection

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) blocks Telegram by recognising the unique byte signatures of its transport protocol. Standard MTProto uses a fixed 0xEE…

Monitor Your Server Health with Python and Telegram

Monitor Your Server Health with Python and Telegram tags: python, devops, monitoring, telegram Server Health Monitoring Made Easy with Python and Te…

Why iPhone Videos Silently Fail as Telegram Avatars (FFmpeg Fix)

My girlfriend tried to set a video avatar on her Telegram profile last month. Fresh clip from her iPhone 15, under ten seconds, looked great. Telegr…

Building an AI Accountability Coach That Knows Your Habits

Building a Multi Platform AI Budget Coach

Rain Alert: A Voice Bot That Warns You Before Rain Catches You Off Guard

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built Rain Alert is a Telegram voice bot that watches the minute-by-minute rain f…

How to Forward WhatsApp Messages to Telegram (Without Losing Your Media)

If you run a community, a support desk, or you're simply moving your life from one app to the other, sooner or later you hit the same wall: there is…

Collect VietQR Payments in Telegram Bots with AgentPay

The Problem: Why Most Telegram Payment Bots Fail You've built a Telegram bot that sells digital courses, takes coffee orders, or offers freelance se…

Fragment API SDK for Telegram Apps and Bots: A Practical Guide (Node.js & Python)

Most Telegram commerce ideas hit the same wall right after the prototype stage: the bot or Mini App itself is easy to build, but Stars and Premium f…

Stop refreshing job boards: free APIs for remote-job alerts (Remotive, RemoteOK, Arbeitnow)

Job hunting for remote positions has a dumb daily ritual: open Remotive, open RemoteOK, open a couple more boards, scroll past everything you saw ye…

I built a Telegram bot that counts calories from food photos. It confidently called soup "berry compote"

My wife tracks her meals, and I watched her type "buckwheat, boiled, 100 g" into a calorie app for the hundredth time. Search, scroll, pick the wron…

How to make Telegram animated stickers from an SVG (no After Effects)

Telegram animated stickers and custom emoji use a format called TGS — compressed Lottie animation data. The "official" way to make one is a Lottie /…

5 Telegram Bot Patterns Every Python Developer Should Know

5 Telegram Bot Patterns Every Python Developer Should Know After building 50+ bots, these patterns solve 90% of problems. 1. FSM for Multi-Step Flow…

Your Meta CAPI events from a Telegram bot are losing attribution. Here's the fix.

A funnel I see all the time: a Meta ad sends people to a landing page, the page says "message us on Telegram," and a bot takes it from there — quali…

Telegram Stars Economics for Bot Developers: What Your Stars Are Actually Worth in 2026

Your Telegram bot is live. Users are sending Stars. You check your creator dashboard and see 847 Stars sitting there. The question that follows is a…

Coding Agents over Telegram, Part 1: Topics Are Agents

You already run coding agents (opencode, Codex, Claude Code) in tmux on some remote box: a dev server, a cloud instance, a GPU node. They work. The…

How to Build a Telegram Crypto Checkout in Go (And Avoid Going Insane with Manual Checks)

We've all built that one MVP. You know the flow: Your bot spits out a USDT address. You ask the customer to reply with a transaction hash or, worse,…

I built a universal Telegram AI assistant with n8n

I've been managing a Telegram channel for a while and kept spending time answering the same questions manually. So I built one n8n workflow that now…

How to Build a Telegram Bot with PHP and AI (2026)

How to Build a Telegram Bot with PHP and AI (2026) This guide builds a fully working AI Telegram bot with PHP: webhook setup, message handling, per-…