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by tb303 576 days ago
Hi. I use shortwave (AI email built on top of Gmail) but I’m growing frustrated with it. I’ve never really gotten into telegram as an assistant. Would you mind sharing why telegram is the preferred interaction medium of choice here?
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A easy webhook to respond to and then supply a prompt is the likely response...
On Telegram It's just very fast to create a bot and getting started. I've tried WhatsApp before but too complicated and Signal was also complex. I'd say that Telegram was the easiest to get a poc working.
Did you consider Zulip? I've always wondered why Zulip isn't used more often by communities. Seems like it could be a great hybrid between Discord and Telegram.
Frankly telegram is the easiest to integrate with bots… I know, I’ve been down the same rabbit hole