Reed Dev articles - 17 total
I Built a Telegram Accountability Bot That Checks In On You Daily
I kept dropping habits. Gym streaks, study routines, side projects. I would start strong then quietly...
How to Build a Telegram Bot That Remembers Users (Node.js + Docker)
Most Telegram bot tutorials show you how to echo messages back. This tutorial shows how to build a...
Shipping a Side Project to 8 Users in a Week: Lessons from Building an AI Telegram Bot
I shipped an AI companion bot on Telegram in under a week and got 8 real users. Here is what I...
Why I Built an AI You Can Talk to at 2am (and How)
I moved to a new city six months ago. No friends nearby, family in a different timezone. At 2am when...
Free AI Friend on Telegram: No App, No Signup, Just Chat
Most AI chatbot apps want you to download an app, create an account, and often pay. I built one that...
Running One Docker Container Per User on a $35/Month Server
I run a Telegram AI bot where every user gets their own Docker container. Here is how that works on a...
I Built an AI That Texts You First: Solving the Cold Start Problem in AI Companions
Every AI chatbot has the same problem: the user has to start the conversation. That makes them tools,...
How to Build a Telegram Bot That Feels Like a Real Friend (Not a Chatbot)
Most Telegram bots feel robotic. They respond to commands, spit out formatted text, and forget you...
What I Learned Building a Multi-User AI Companion on Telegram
I spent the last month building Adola, a free AI companion bot on Telegram that serves multiple users...
Per-User Docker Container Isolation: A Pattern for Multi-Tenant AI Agents
When you need true isolation between users in a multi-tenant AI system, shared processes with user...
I Replaced My Journaling App With an AI That Talks Back
I have tried every journaling app. Day One, Notion, plain text files, even voice memos. The pattern...
Per-User Docker Containers: How I Give Each User Their Own AI Agent
When I started building Adola, an AI companion on Telegram, I had a standard architecture in mind:...
How I Built a Telegram Bot That Actually Feels Like a Person
Most Telegram bots are glorified command processors. You type /weather and get a response. You type...
The Loneliness Epidemic Is Real. I Am Building an AI That Just Listens.
A few weeks ago I read that Harvard study about AI companions reducing loneliness. The finding that...
I Built an AI Companion That Actually Remembers You (and Checks In On Its Own)
Most AI chatbots forget you the moment the conversation ends. You say something deeply personal,...
Why Persistent Memory Is the Missing Piece in AI Companions
Every AI chatbot you have used probably starts from scratch each time you open it. You tell ChatGPT...
I Built an AI Companion on Telegram That Actually Remembers You
Most AI chatbots feel like talking to a search engine with a personality layer. You ask something, it...