I built a Personal AI Assistant for Telegram that deploys on Railway with 3 variables

Описание и применение

Лёгкий Telegram‑бот‑ассистент, развернутый на Railway, использующий только три переменные окружения и предоставляющий функции памяти, транскрипции голосовых сообщений и анализа документов.

Задача

Users want a lightweight, self-hosted AI assistant that can be accessed directly within Telegram without additional web interfaces or complex infrastructure.

Результат

The bot provides a fully functional, pay-as-you-go AI assistant within Telegram, with persistent conversation history, long-term memory, and media processing, all managed through a single Railway deployment.

Рабочий процесс

• Deploy the Railway template
• Set TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, OWNER_TELEGRAM_ID, and OPENAI_API_KEY
• Start the bot and chat via Telegram
• Use commands /new, /memory, /remember, /forget
• Send voice messages, documents, or images for AI processing

Доказательства

Deploy → enter 3 values → start chatting.

Источник

The owner whitelist is checked before OpenAI requests and media processing, so random Telegram users can't burn your API credits.

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