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Anthropic Launches Claude for Slack, But DIY Bot on Telegram Costs $12/Month
Anthropic released @Claude for Slack, allowing users to tag the bot in channels for async work with channel memory. However, Slack has only 35-40M weekly active users, while Telegram has 900M and WhatsApp 2B. A developer shares a four-part recipe to replicate the pattern on Telegram for under $12/month using a VPS and free APIs.
Meridian48 take
The launch is more about enterprise distribution than product innovation, as the core pattern is easily replicable on any messenger with a bot API.
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