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tele

a telegram desktop fork, kept as a queue of patches on top of upstream releases and built automatically

Details

External ID
1388134031
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
tele
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Sept. 25, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
11
Upvotes percentile
0.33858570330514987
Tags
client, patchset, tdesktop, telegram
Fetched at
Sept. 29, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 29, 2026, 1:02 a.m.

Enrichment

Theme
systems tools and desktop utilities
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Communication
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
custom telegram desktop fork
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial Managing Git patches is trivial, but compiling and maintaining a custom fork of Telegram Desktop (a massive C++/Qt codebase with complex submodules) requires substantial build-system expertise.

What it would actually take: The project relies on a CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions) automating `git rebase` / `git am` patch queues onto Telegram's `tdesktop` repository. The primary hurdle is managing the notorious compilation dependencies of Telegram Desktop (custom Qt fork, WebRTC, custom OpenSSL patches, OS-specific toolchains on Windows/macOS/Linux). It demands deep familiarity with C++ CMake builds, submodule orchestration, and resolving upstream merge conflicts in large C++ projects.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 1066 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #656 of 1067 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.

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