Show HN: Telegram AI assistant with projects, images and background jobs

Category: ai-ml

Tags: telegram-bot, openai, typescript, ai-assistant, sqlite

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

A private TypeScript Telegram assistant built on OpenAI that supports text/voice conversations, image generation/editing, document analysis, persistent conversations, projects, explicit memory, usage budgets, and durable background jobs. The codebase demonstrates non-trivial concurrency handling, SQLite-backed state, and a broad feature surface, making it a feature-rich personal AI bot rather than a novel paradigm.

Target audience: backend developers and power users building personal AI assistants

Repository: https://github.com/watscho/chat-gpt-telegram-bot · TypeScript · MIT · 17 stars

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