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VELA

Your own AI assistant in Telegram, ready in 5 minutes

AI assistants & chatbots
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  1. Launches VELA launched on Product Hunt

Among 3,871 AI assistants & chatbots products tracked by Astracia.

  • 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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