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@thedigitalbeni on counter-telegram-bot · 23 days ago

I built a Telegram bot that lets groups set countdown timers that persist even after restarts. The hardest part was making timers work across different Telegram topics without mixing them up I solved this by keying each timer to both the chat ID and thread ID in SQLite. I'm proud of the async architecture and the milestone alerts at 50%, 25%, and 12.5% remaining time. To test it: go to t.me/g12countdown_bot, add it to a group or DM it, and try /help to see all 8 commands.

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@thedigitalbeni on counter-telegram-bot · 23 days ago

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Telegram groups I’m part of always needed countdown timers for deadlines, events, study sessions. Every workaround was clunky: pinned messages you had to manually update, external apps nobody checked, bots that reset when they went offline. I wanted something that actually lived inside Telegram, worked across different group topics without mixing up timers, and kept running even if the server restarted. So I built it myself.