After my last post about feeling overwhelmed by information in Telegram, I started thinking more concretely about what I actually want from a tool like this.
It turned out to be surprisingly simple.
Two core things.
The first one is getting answers to specific questions.
Instead of reading hundreds of messages, I want to ask: was this discussed? is there anything relevant here? — and get a clear answer.
Basically, someone (or something) reads the chat for me and extracts what matters.
The second one is not missing important things.
There are chats and channels I care about, but I don’t have time to constantly check them.
So I wanted some kind of digest — maybe once a day — with only the things that are actually relevant to me: key topics, signals, or updates based on what I’m looking for.
To test if this idea even works, I started with a very minimal version.
No attempt to build a full product — just enough to see if the core loop makes sense.
And honestly, the result surprised me a bit.
In some cases, I don’t need to read the chat at all anymore.
I can ask a question, get a usable answer, and only open the chat if I want to go deeper — instead of scrolling through everything.
That changes the whole experience.
That said, there are still a lot of open questions.
How reliable can these answers be?
How should prompts be structured?
How to make “subscriptions” useful instead of just adding more noise?
At this point, I feel like this can’t be solved in isolation — it needs real usage and real feedback.
So I’m curious:
If you had an AI assistant for Telegram —
— what tasks would you give it first?
— and would you be interested in testing something like this on your own chats?
Would really appreciate any thoughts 🙌
I happen to know a couple of early adopter indie hackers personally. They'd probably be willing to answer any questions you have about this if you want.
they try to do something like I'm doing? okay, sure, you can give me the contacts!
You could find the people you're looking for through "replyz". You just post your question, describe the type of person you want to hear from, and members with matching backgrounds can respond directly. The community works on reciprocity, so people are also expected to share their own insights and experiences with others. Happy to help if you need anything getting started.