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I built TgCloud: An open-source image hosting & CDN powered by Telegram storage (written in Go)
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I built TgCloud: An open-source image hosting & CDN powered by Telegram storage (written in Go)

DEV Community: go·adrien·about 12 hours ago
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Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a beginner developer, and over the last few weeks, I’ve been learning Go by building side projects. Like many of you, I love creating apps, but I absolutely hate getting AWS S3 bills or dealing with rate-limited public APIs just for basic image storage.

That led me to a simple, slightly crazy question:

Can Telegram be used as a reliable, zero-cost image hosting backend?

To find out, I built TgCloud .

Ideal for Small Projects (Not for Production!)

⚠️ Let's be clear from the start: This project is absolutely not intended to be used in production environments or for large commercial projects.

However, it is the perfect, lightweight, and free tool for:

Hosting images for your personal developer portfolio .

Powering your small side-projects or MVPs without putting down a credit card.

Storing your own desktop screenshots or mockups on a budget.

What is TgCloud?

TgCloud is a self-hosted, lightweight image hosting service and CDN wrapper written in Go.…

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