Show HN: ChatGPT Inline Bot on Telegram

[marc]

Congrats on the launch!

Made something similar which also uses Whisper to support voice memos (talk to GPT) and TTS (hear GPT’s responses)

Not sure it warrants a separate post, so sharing it here.

https://t.me/marcbot

[Tepix]

Hey that's pretty awesome, can you make the TTS output language configurable?

Also when i send something to the bot i can only send video, (with the iOS app) it makes more sense to send audio. Is this something you can change?

Finally, you should have a privacy policy for a service like this.

[sebastiennight]

What do you use for TTS? I'm designing an in-app chatbot and having a hard time figuring out a fast-enough TTS library.

Currently considering either pre-recording all the outputs (ugh) or using the browser's TTS api (ugh^2) :)

[sandoche]

Thanks, I saw it yesterday and tried it, it's pretty awesome! Well done!

[aero-glide2]

Does this also use chatgpt's api? Just tried it, it's very useful.

[tuga]

Can you share the source code?

[stavros]

This seems very useful to me, but is the kind of thing I'd write in an afternoon and release it as OSS.

Still, most people won't want to self-host it, so the business model might work, good luck!

[sandoche]

It's indeed possible, and you can easily find already existing OSS ChatGPT implementation that can serve as a base. I am more targeting no tech people or just the ones who don't want to bother building it / hosting it.

[jonifico]

Just seriously curious, won't you buy it because looks like it was created in a weekend? So maybe not reliable?

I'm in a similar mood, but most of the indie maker's products are created this way and some end up scaling pretty well and turned in good investments, as they are usually cost-effective.

[super256]

Because there is no info on the website about subscription prices:

There is a monthly subscription for 5USD which allows you to send up to 1000 messages every month. A yearly subscription costs 50USD.

[aldanor]

1000 doesn't sound like a lot...

[mattrighetti]

I'm building something similar, but it's for personal use only. That way users can self host their own version and play with it with their own API key.

Cool project!

[levidos]

The last time I looked at this, ChatGPT wasn't yet available over API. Has this changed?

[sandoche]

Nice one! If you check in the comment below someone share some self hostable bot aswell

[illyism]

Great to see you launch!

I just finished something similar in Telegram, I added a way to connect to "live data" via system commands, so the bot can get weather updates or cryptocurrency prices. I want to wire it up to send emails, make reminders, view or update the calendar and see what else makes sense.

If you force the bot to decide to do something (eg: If you feel the user want to start again, respond with --RESTART--) I think you could make AI that feels sentient or can do things on its own.

A curious experiment for now, let's see how it goes:

https://magicbuddy.chat

https://t.me/magicbuddybot

[olso]

The developer can see everything that is being sent to the bot, right?

[Tepix]

The privacy policy needs to be cristal clear what they do and what they don't with the chat data. How long is it kept, what is it being used for, who has access to it, etc.

Ideally there are no chat logs being kept at all and chat logs are only enabled temporarily for an individual user when debugging issues.

[siva7]

The way this works you can safely assume this is the case

[martin_a]

Of course!

How would you even build a business in this day and age wiuthout collecting EVERYTHING you can (legally or not) obtain from your users...

[novaRom]

>> We, us or our means Sandoche Adittane (Micro Entreprise), company number 79218834400016.

They don't provide their business address nor their country or phone number. How can it be trusted?

[shivylp]

I made something similar too for my own use and opened it to public last week. Try it out maybe: https://t.me/spy16_avabot

Privacy Policy: I DO NOT log/store anything from users chat (except the numeric telegram-id and the language preference). And I DO NOT send any user info to OpenAI as well (I would rather shut it down)

[vorticalbox]

how do you make it remember past information if you do not store the past chat history?

[panosfilianos]

You have a bit of overlap on your action buttons at the top with the graphic below. Congrats on the launch.

[sandoche]

Thanks, good feedback, I'll look into it

[simple-thoughts]

Do you accept crypto payments? I have several contacts who will likely pay for this if so

[sandoche]

Interesting, I don't accept crypto payment yet but I am up for that!

[h00s]

Or you can roll out your own: https://github.com/h00s/chatgpt-telegram-bot

[ronyfadel]

Congrats on the launch!

In case you don’t use Telegram, I made one for WhatsApp: http://wa.me/19893946588

[aryamaan]

how does making a bot for whatsapp works? I thought it has always been non trivial. Just want to check what's the current state of it is

[yewenjie]

The idea is great, but it is so simple to build I am just waiting for an open-source self-hostable version to pop up in a few days.

[bravura]

Can you please add support for voicemail

[sandoche]

That's a good idea thanks, will add it to the backlog

[atmosx]

Hmmm... I'd love to have something like on my car instead of "hey".

[favaq]

It would be nice if you provided the source code.

[farbodsaraf]

Good choice for making it inline

[TurkishPoptart]

how much does it cost?