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- Top 5% of AI assistants & chatbots products by launches Launches tracked: #58 of 3,871
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About the startup
VELA turns a blank Telegram bot into your personal AI assistant powered by Claude. No code, no API keys: paste the token from BotFather and it works. Weather, reminders, notes, web search, photo and document analysis, flights, Google Workspace, Notion and many more. Basic plan free forever.
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