Boris Komarov

I built VELA because every AI assistant I tried in Telegram was either a shared bot used by hundreds of thousands of people, or expensive, or buried under hundreds of integrations I'd never use.

With VELA you create your own bot via BotFather in about 5 minutes, no code, and turn on only the modules you actually need — weather, reminders, currency/crypto/stock prices, web search, morning digest, document, photo analysis e.t.c.

It runs on Claude: the free Basic plan on Haiku, and Pro at $9/mo on Sonnet 4.6 for complex tasks — the lowest price for an AI assistant in Telegram on the market today.

Boolean search is exactly where most recruiters lose candidates already sitting in their ATS, so natural-language search over your own database is a smart wedge. The thing I'd be curious about: can it reason on context like "shipped a payments feature at a fintech" rather than just matching titles and keywords? That semantic depth is what would separate it from the ATS's built-in search.

Brief-to-launch in one place is the right fix — DTC creative teams lose so much time bouncing between a planner, a drive folder, and Slack approvals. The part I'd want to see: does the analytics step actually close the loop, i.e. feed winning-creative data back into the next brief, or is it just reporting after launch?

Clever angle — the official WhatsApp Business API gets expensive fast, so "broadcast without API at $1/mo" is a real pain point for small businesses. My one honest question: how do you handle WhatsApp's anti-spam limits and ban risk when sending at scale without the official API? If you've got that side figured out, this is a genuinely strong deal.