rubenlagus/TelegramBots

This project is a ready-made toolkit that lets developers quickly build automated bots for Telegram, the popular messaging app with over 800 million users. It handles all the complex communication between your bot and Telegram's platform, so teams can focus on building the actual features and conversations they want their bot to have.

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§ 1 — what it does

This project is a ready-made toolkit that lets developers quickly build automated bots for Telegram, the popular messaging app with over 800 million users. It handles all the complex communication between your bot and Telegram's platform, so teams can focus on building the actual features and conversations they want their bot to have.

§ 2 — why it matters

With over 5,000 stars and more than 1,300 teams building on top of it, this library signals strong market demand for Telegram as a customer engagement and automation channel — rivaling SMS and email for certain audiences. For founders and PMs, it lowers the cost and time to deploy Telegram-based products like customer support bots, notification systems, or community tools, making Telegram a viable go-to-market channel worth serious consideration.

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