Show HN: I built Lovable for text bots and mini apps

45 pointsposted 9 months ago
by piotmni

18 Comments

_rousbound

9 months ago

A gallery/workflow example would be great on the landing page.

piotmni

9 months ago

will be working on that!

traktorn

9 months ago

The page looks nice and I like the catchphrase, it would be nice to see some samples.

Have you built anything using this yourself?

piotmni

9 months ago

yep for now it is focused on telegram:

- simple todo/link collection bot with telegram custom keyboard

- markdown from pdf message

- bot that returns top 5 posts on hn

- simple settlement bot

- friend manage to build a bot that after getting a url to recipe generated image about it

- "cookie clicker" app

- basic shop app

traktorn

9 months ago

Cool, looking forward to seeing a "gallery" of these.

ettsvensktlogin

9 months ago

Am I, as a user, supposed to create the bot using Telegram? Or using some other interface? I clicked "Try it on Telegram" and got connected to some bot.

piotmni

9 months ago

yes, and this point Plutonic supports Telegram bots and apps(in the future planning to add another apps like Discord)

saberience

9 months ago

What's the actual use-case for this? I actually don't know anyone who uses Telegram, let alone apps on Telegram. But I'm also not friends with any crypto people.

StrandedKitty

9 months ago

It's pretty popular in Eastern Europe and Russia. In Ukraine railroad tickets are sold through a Telegram chat bot.

I think the main reason people prefer making chat bots in Telegram is that it's completely free and unlimited, i.e. you can create any number of chat bots, send any number of messages with attached files of any size. Their API is very easy to use too.

sepositus

9 months ago

Is the pricing link at the bottom of the page supposed to do something?

traktorn

9 months ago

The same for the Testimonal-link in the menu. Not working.

piotmni

9 months ago

yes sorry will update this in future, landing for now supposed to be mostly basic info and redirect to telegram.

regarding pricing: mostly number of messages per month/ number of bots

- free: 10 msg, 2 bots

- starter: 50 msg, 5 bots - 10$/month

- developer: 100 msg, 10 bots - 20$/month

- pro: 250 msg, 20 bots, voice messages - 50$/month

- scale: 500msg, 40bots, voice messages - 100$/month

traktorn

9 months ago

Messages/month? Is that the amount of messages the bot does in Telegram? Or the amount of messages sent to the LLM when building it?

piotmni

9 months ago

amount of edit messages in plutonic bot, so yes messages sent to llm

ebcase

9 months ago

Pushover support would be great, as one of your targets.

piotmni

9 months ago

thanks for response, can you explain this use case more precisely?

jonfw

9 months ago

pricing link is busted

piotmni

9 months ago

yep will fix this, description is accessible in telegram bot and also posted in one of the comments