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We ran out of money. The product didn't.

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Four months ago we counted how long our savings would last. The answer was: until autumn. Autumn is here.

The idea was simple. Businesses of every size sell in Telegram, and they lose customers not because of price but because of silence. Someone writes at 11 pm, gets an answer the next morning and has already bought somewhere else. So we built an agent that replies right away and hands the chat to your team when the talk gets to money.

Today we have a working product, zero revenue and a server bill we pay out of our own pockets. Here we will write it as it is: numbers, fights, failures. Follow along if you want to see how it ends.

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