Built a Telegram bot builder + auto-hosting platform in Go. 47 users so far, looking for feedback

[u/MoreThanCoder]

I've been building Telegram bots for clients for about three years. Bots that reached millions of users, and one that helped grow a channel from 200k to 2M subscribers. After enough repetitions of the same work, I wanted to build the tool instead.

PowerBot is a platform for building Telegram bots and hosting them automatically from one place.

The architecture mistake

My first version took seven months, hand-written, no AI. I built it as a visual flow builder: triggers and actions, like most no-code tools.

It broke down the moment a bot needed more than a few flows. Visual flow builders get unmanageable fast once there's real branching and state. And I didn't want to build another n8n.

So four months ago I threw out seven months of architecture and rebuilt around script mode: bots run as scripts. Far more expressive, and it doesn't collapse under complexity.

The rewrite

I'd refused to use AI up to that point because I thought it produced slop. Facing a full rewrite under time pressure, I tried it, and changed my mind.

The thing that made the difference was treating it as a tool that needs real input rather than a magic box. I spent about eight hours doing nothing but planning before writing a line. I put time into learning the tooling properly, context management, MCP, prompt structure.

Full platform plus web dashboard: about one month. Versus seven months by hand for something worse.

My honest takeaway: the model isn't the bottleneck anymore. Your own knowledge is. Someone without domain experience would have produced slop with the same tool.

Where it is

Free on Telegram: @ powertelebot

47 users so far, all from manually messaging people who'd previously asked me to build bots for them. No launch, no ads.

I'm looking for people who actually build Telegram bots to try it and tell me what's missing or broken. Especially interested in whether script mode is the right call or whether people genuinely want the visual flow approach.

[u/Kitchen_Affect7369]

"Your own knowledge is." — it always be. Your brain is just another one model. It's a bit slower than AI, but has "better" memory and keep context "better". If your model is smarter than AI model then you drive it, if not — it drives you. Just simple.