VELA
Your own AI assistant in Telegram, ready in 5 minutes
Details
- External ID
- 1237396
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- VELA
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Telegram, SaaS, Virtual Assistants
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
VELA turns a blank Telegram bot into your personal AI assistant powered by Claude. No code, no API keys: paste the token from BotFather and it works. Weather, reminders, notes, web search, photo and document analysis, flights, Google Workspace, Notion and many more. Basic plan free forever.
Enrichment
- Theme
- task-specific ai agents and assistants
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- personal ai assistant for telegram users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Connecting a Telegram bot via the BotFather API token and piping incoming messages through Claude with tool calling and standard third-party API integrations is easily vibe-coded.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 163 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 164 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
- Personal AI Manager · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- AskOra · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Data2AIBot · ph · 2026-09-28 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Elite Touch AI · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Talkolia · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FiveMinChat · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- BotForCreators · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Botfay · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.