Shipped · Aug 2025
Gifts Alert Bot
Telegram bot that detects new NFT gift drops and upgrades on Telegram and posts real-time alerts to subscribed channels. Monetised via Telegram Stars.
Shipped · Aug 2025
Telegram bot that detects new NFT gift drops and upgrades on Telegram and posts real-time alerts to subscribed channels. Monetised via Telegram Stars.
Gifts Alert Bot · the story
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Detection to alert
A poller watches the gifts API; every change is buffered so throttling never drops one, then pushed to every subscribed channel.
POLL
custom poller on the Telegram gifts API
DIFF
a new gift, a rarity upgrade or a supply change
QUEUE
events buffered so throttling never drops one
POST
alert to every subscribed channel
BILL
Stars subscription renews inside Telegram
Inherits the drop-time lessons from Autostickers
Gifts Alert Bot · the write-up
The companion project to Autostickers. Where Autostickers buys at drop time, Gifts Alert Bot watches the Telegram gifts ecosystem in real time — new gift drops, rarity upgrades, supply changes — and pushes alerts to channels of subscribers.
Subscriptions are billed natively through Telegram Stars, so onboarding is a single in-app tap. The infrastructure inherits the lessons from Autostickers: queue-backed event ingestion, cache-first reads on the hot detection path, and graceful degradation when the gifts API throttles during major drops.
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