Chat from the apps you already love
Link Telegram or Slack (with more apps coming) to your account and your conversations come to you — messages arrive in the app you actually check, and your replies flow back as if you'd typed them here.
Pairing: two minutes, fully yours
- Open Connected apps in your account settings and choose Connect for a
channel (Telegram or Slack). You get a short code and the bot to send it to (e.g.
@YourProductBridgeBot). - Open your chat app — Telegram or Slack — and message that code to the bot. Done — the bot confirms, and so does your inbox.
- The code is single-use and expires in minutes; codes are stored only in scrambled form. A code that leaks after you've used it is worthless.
Unpairing is just as easy — one tap (Disconnect on the Connected apps page), or simply text
stop to the bot. Effective immediately.
What flows where — your rules
Per connected app you choose what arrives: direct messages, group threads, notifications — each its own switch, plus quiet hours and per-conversation mutes. Defaults are conservative (DMs and mentions on; group chatter off) so pairing never opens a firehose.
Replying works too: your reply to the bot lands in the conversation that last reached you there, carrying a small "via Telegram" note. Every safety rule applies identically — blocks, membership, moderation — the bridge is you, never more.
The honest fine print
- An unknown person messaging the bot gets nothing but pairing instructions — unpaired senders cannot reach you or anything else.
- Your conversations here are transport-encrypted, platform-readable (that's what makes bridging possible at all — the full story), and a bridged message additionally travels the chosen network under that network's own privacy terms. Pair the apps you trust; skip the ones you don't.
Good habits
- Pair the one app you actually check. You can pair several, but one well-chosen doorstep beats three noisy ones.
- Test the loop once: have a friend DM you, reply from Telegram, and watch it land — trust built in thirty seconds.
Did you know? A channel that can't show something rich — a photo, a long thread — never errors: you get clean text plus a link that drops you into the full conversation in the app, exactly where you left off.
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