Introducing Hosting Bot: Launch Your ICP D-Apps in Minutes – All From Telegram

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We built HostyBot to make decentralized hosting dead simple.

  • Telegram-based
  • No blockchain experience required
  • $1 gets you a live canister
  • /buy, /create, /upload — all managed inside Telegram
  • Built-in /faucet to test for free

Use it to deploy:

  • Telegram Mini Apps as Mini D-Apps
  • Frontend websites with no backend
  • Lightweight tools & experiments

We’d love early adopter feedback and suggestions from the Dfinity dev community.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Try it out: https://hostybot.com

Happy to answer questions and hear feedback!

Thanks!

— The HostyBot Team :hammer_and_wrench:

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You should bring this functionality to an OpenChat bot :robot:

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Anyone who can help with OpenChat bots?

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Yes! What do you need?

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are you aware of this repo? GitHub - open-chat-labs/open-chat-bots: SDKs for building Bots for OpenChat with examples

there is also this playlist that gives some intros into the bot framework: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJLvShq_XwmjfreutMvRwS6OATyJ78Utz&si=-zXlEnyXCKH3C6za

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Please feel free to post here, but you can also get support from the OC core dev team in our dedicated community: OpenChat

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I need someone to write the OpenChat from start to end :joy: as I don’t have the resources.

It would certainly be very nice to see an OpenChat doing the same thing. But I am wondering what the purpose is. The goal of a Telegram bot is attract new users to the IC by introducing frontend hosting to them. There is a large user base and we make it easy for them by using Telegram as a payment rail. Those users may have tokens, especially USDT, in their Telegram wallet or TON Space. They can get started with a canister without touching ICP or cycles.

OpenChat users are are completely different group. They already have ICP native tokens. And I don’t see the benefit of a bot interface either. It would be easier to manage your canisters from a web app. Kind of a GUI version of dfx where you log in with II.

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I agree it makes absolutely (more) sense to run this on TG to potentially attract a new audience for hosting websites on ICP.

however, I would still love to see somebody also building this on OC :slight_smile: