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by tgdn 2212 days ago
I'm not sure how this works, I installed the bot, sent /start

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The bot is simply down. I would say 90% of all bots are down all the time and most of them completely go offline within the first 3 months.

There are a lot of reasons for that. like - no revenue - made by beginners with no scalability in mind so it simply cant handle the traffic if a bot gets popular - lose of interest in developing if it doesn't "blow up" soon - every good idea is instantly copied especially if the code is public there will be clones all over the place. - no official way to promote your bot. Most large groups will directly ban you if you tell em about the bot you made. Some even have bots to auto-ban if you name another bot. Everything is considered advertising/spam very toxic behavior in a lot groups. As with everything free on the internet there are the 0.1% who create and all other consume and give back nothing.

Source: I'm on Telegram since nearly day one. I run roughly a dozen completely free to use bots since many years. Some of them with thousands of daily users.

I will definitely try to keep this up running for the longer term. Also I have not planned to make this monetary and keep it free from advertisement. I know initially things are slow, but I have jumped in to the game with long commitment. Also the source code is completely written by me and the motivation was to learn spring boot. I have not copied it :) And thanks for taking some time to review it. I really appreciate that.
Thats great! If you have any trouble or questions about telegram bots/the bot API I suggest you to join https://t.me/BotDevelopment
handshake failure is happening with certificates, I will look into the issue tomorrow, and we should be good :) thanks for trying.