MarkinK

I recently built an open-source ChatGPT Telegram bot using the Telegraf framework.

You can deploy it to Heroku with just one click.

The bot handles text, voice, and photo messages, converting them to text for processing via OpenAI's ChatGPT.

It also uses PostgreSQL for data storage and optionally integrates with Pinecone for long-term memory.

The repository includes Docker and Docker Compose support for easy deployment.

Feel free to check it out, and let me know your thoughts!

Thank you!

I just made it for myself and share it here. For me it is better to control by button and aute deactivate feature than with manual control.

This is exactly what this extension does

But for LinkedIn and other sites, I still have to turn it on sometimes. But only for a few minutes. So I have the auto disable feature.

What do you mean?

Interesting, thank you!

I'm afraid that AGPL is not an actual open-source launch test. As a developer, I wouldn't contribute to such a product.

We'll see! I'm curious to see what comes out of all this

That's a counterintuitive and interesting thought, I'll have to ponder that, thanks.

Yes, I understand the risk, but I really care about trying something new and risky and getting more users rather than running a slow-growing business. If Amazon steals it from me tomorrow, I think I will celebrate for a week :-)

Thank you so much! I got it written down, and we will check account links separately. I understand about the updates. I heard that regular updates are important for GitHub also, to know which projects are alive and which are dead. Interesting, thanks!

That's all true, but why not put it out there for all to see? This project is useful. People are using it. There are customers with hundreds of users and tens of millions of rows in the database. But the product is not growing fast. What's the point of hiding this code and not putting it out into the open source?

It's simpler — we're not growing as fast as we want. So, for us, the value of the code is not great. I am interested in putting it out in the open and seeing what happens. It would be great if I could gather a community around it and make more people use it. If not, we lose nothing crucial because only fast-growing products interest us.

I agree, but I don't see any point in selling it. I'd instead post the code and use it in all my other businesses without depending on the buyer. Besides, there is still a market for Odoo and Zoho integrators, and I think we can try to gather some of these people around our product.

> I would consider what kind of licensing you want to do, I would also consider goals in doing this. One huge benefit of an open source SaaS offering is the freedom to take control of what you're getting out of it in-house, or going straight to the vendor.

We plan to put both back and front under Apache-2.0. It seems like a good enough way to show that the user won't depend on us.

> Will you be offering migration to and from your SaaS service?

Yes, we plan to continue offering the cloud for those who don't want to deploy their own solution.

> As for building a community, definitely make a Discord and a forum where people can come together and get help publicly, figure out how to get a stackoverflow space for it as well.

We're thinking about Discord right now, even started one. That is an interesting idea about Stackoverflow, thank you we'll think about it!

> it's starting to sound more like a grieving process

Why? No grieving. Many products in the world are not growing as fast as their creators would like – it is OK. We just try new things and see what happens. Like what if you put all the code on the net :-)

yep

That's a good idea, thanks!

> Your other comments sound dispassionate about your product.

I really like what we've been able to create. I want more people to use it.

> You said you arent interested in slowly growing a business

I want more users. If the price is that many of them won't pay because it's open source, then that's the price.

> Im sure your integration partners say they would like your project to be open source but they arent going to be doing ANY of the work.

We have a very well-isolated back end (F#) and front end. I don't think integrators will be able to write in F#, but hopefully, they will be happy to refine the front end in Vue.

Yes, I understand. But we've created a value that's too slow to grow. It doesn't make sense.

We thought about it, but it's too boring and not enough money is offered. I want to do something fun and something that people need, not to get a little bit of money.

I will appear later on our GitHub account: https://github.com/ozma-io

It would be great if you could give us feedback, use it or even contribute.

I'm not interested in developing a product that's too slow to grow. And if it is, I guess there is no point in keeping the code closed. We are trying big moves and changes. Some of them will work. Will see. At least my integration partners really want my codebase open source :-)

I've just launched a new way to create databases, CRM, and ERP systems. No coding, just a simple conversation with AI.

Check out our quick video to see how it works. It's easy and quite fun!

Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to improve it.

Interesting idea! Thank you!

Sales drive a business, and it's true that some do really well with just the basics, like Google Sheets.

It shows that knowing your business and focusing on selling can be more important than tech at the start.

Yet, as you grow, tech like CRM systems can make scaling smoother.

If you add screenshots to your README, it will be great!

I just read your thoughts, and hey, I've been there with ozma-io. We're now diving into AI and LLM stuff, and it's super exciting!

We've got this cool no-code AI feature live: https://ozma.io/ai-business-app-builder/

It looks like we are at a new level of no-code programming. Real no-code. What if you try to add AI to your tool?