got fucking tired of people deleting and editing messages - so built a bot
Telegram is basically a huge part of my life at this point.
Thats my main source of inf my workplace and pretty much way of communicating with friends,girls, clients and customers. Im a designer and do some programming work remotely, so most of my work happens there.
And lately, clients have become...kinda sneaky.
they edit messages, delete messages...
Then act like “nah, that’s exactly what I said...”
At first it was just annoying. But once this stuff starts affecting how much money you make every month, you slowly start going insane. May 8, I randomly saw a Telegram update notification and discovered their new Chat Automation feature. I started reading about it and realized TG already had some similar functionality through Telegram Premium before. Long story... realized this could actually solve my problem.
Basically, you can connect a bot to your account through Telegram settings(yes, this is a real Telegram feature and it works without Premium), and the bot can monitor message updates and conversation history.
So me and my friend spent two days hacking together a bot that sends you notifications whenever someone edits or deletes a message. And not just that --> it actually shows what was deleted and what was changed and this is not visible to the person who did it !
I thought I had found a gold mine!
Then we spent a couple more days polishing everything up. DB stuff, deployment, bug fixes all the annoying infrastructure work...
But now it runs and just works. basically ended up building a solution for my own problem. This thread do not allow me to leave a screenshots, so will leave it in the comment.
Of course i shared this bot with my friends and they started using it and they are asking for more... but this is for the next time