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VELA

Your own AI assistant in Telegram, ready in 5 minutes

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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.

PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views

Niche: ai personal assistant software · 354 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • B2C
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Telegram
  • SaaS
  • Virtual Assistants

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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 : 488 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #66 of 489 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Personal AI Manager · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Apps Father · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • AskOra · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Data2AIBot · ph · 2026-09-28 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • AOVA · ph · 2026-10-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Veduta · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Elite Touch AI · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Relayn — AI Support for Telegram · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45

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