Most people meet a character inside someone else's bot. This is the other thing you can do with one: give it an address of its own, so people open a chat with your character rather than with a menu that happens to contain it.
It takes a couple of minutes and no code. What follows is exactly what happens, including the parts that are constraints rather than features.
What “your own bot” actually means
Telegram creates the bot, not us. You talk to @BotFather, Telegram issues an @username and a token, and that bot exists under your Telegram account from that moment. You hand the token to Talaforge so your character can answer through it.
The consequence is the important part: it is yours. The @username is registered to you. You can change its name and picture through Telegram like any other bot you own. And you can revoke the token whenever you like — at which point your character simply stops answering there, because we no longer have permission to speak on that bot's behalf.
That also means the responsibility is yours. The bot is registered to your account, so Telegram's rules for bot owners apply to you, not to us.
From a character to an @username
The character comes first. You create one the ordinary way — a sentence is enough, and the rest is drafted for you and stays editable — and then attach it to the bot.
There is no code, no server, no deployment. Nothing runs on a machine you have to keep alive: the bot answers because we run the character behind the token you gave us.
Who is allowed to write to it
You choose. A bot can be open to anyone who finds it, or it can answer only you.
Both are real uses. An open bot is something you share — a character other people talk to. A closed one is a private line to your own character with an address you can reach from any device without opening a menu first.
What the bot inherits
The character behind the bot stays a character. It does not become a frozen copy:
- Editable and swappable — change the personality, or point the bot at a different character entirely, without touching the token.
- Memory works the same way it does anywhere else: per character, per topic, per person talking to it.
- Pictures and voice replies come with it, on the same defaults.
- The model choice comes with it, and switching mid-conversation still works.
In other words, you are not building a separate product. You are giving one of your characters a front door.
How the revenue share works
People who talk to your bot spend energy on what they get — replies, pictures, voice. You earn a share of that.
Attribution rides on share links, and the revenue is paid in Telegram Stars, inside Telegram, the same currency everything else here uses.
What it is not: a marketplace. There is no storefront, no checkout you configure, no product catalogue and no seller dashboard to manage. You get a character, an address, and a share of what happens there.
Where the bot can go next
Once a character has its own bot, three other things become possible, and each of them is the same bot doing a different job.
It can host a group chat — added to a Telegram group, it answers in character. Telegram requires you to give it admin rights before it can read a room at all; that is Telegram's rule, not a setting we invented. You can also tell it to speak only when addressed.
It can answer your own incoming direct messages through Telegram Business, in the character's voice, while you are away. You choose which chats it covers in Telegram's own settings, and the moment you reply yourself, your reply wins.
And it can open and answer the comment thread under a new post on your channel.