It started with a stupid habit 🫠

Every morning (or even during the day) I'd open a news channel to check one thing - some specific topic I actually cared about. Twenty minutes later I'd be three threads deep into something completely unrelated, mildly annoyed at myself, and no closer to the thing I opened the app for

Telegram has no keyword alerts (as far as I know). No filters. No way to say "notify me when this appears, ignore everything else." You either follow the channel and see everything, or you don't follow it and miss things.

So I built @telescope_one_bot 🙂

What it does

Simple premise: you tell it which public channels to watch and which keywords to look for. When a new post matches - you get a notification. That's it.

You don't open the channel. You don't scroll. You just get the relevant thing delivered.

Keyword matching works in three modes:

Single word - prefix match. football matches footballer , footballing , etc.

Number - exact match.…