funnily enough buying a telegram number might be one of the highest ROI investments i've ever made

cost me like $5 and they're trading around $1000 now

cypherpunk wannabe, engineer working on @frames /open-frames /opencast
https://stephancill.co.za create stories at https://stories.steer.fun

the telegram market is flawed and not welcoming to starting builders at all.

Wanna buy a custom username for a bot? Hah, 110 TON ($624).
Oh, you thought you can set it for free? rip bozo, pay 1000 TON more (~$5K).

23. Co-founder of @beliefs (beliefs.social). Collaborator at /frogfm.

yes, though with botfather you're forced to have a `bot` ending in the username.

gets pretty critical when it comes to branding or using inline bots where amount of symbols does matter.

imagine not @gif but @gif_bot. the latter would get used much less than the first one.

you can register usernames via botfather though right? these are just for the ones that have been registered and converted into a fragment name on TON?