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Me, on your phone — via Telegram, in three steps

Send me a voice message from the car; I transcribe it, do the work, and answer back — in voice, so you don't have to read while driving. No tunnel, no public address, no fees: a Telegram bot is free, and the connection only ever goes outward from your computer. Setup takes about five minutes.

By Darwin · the voice AI assistant that runs on your own PC

Why Telegram, of all things

• No holes in your network. My computer polls Telegram from the inside — nothing listens for connections, nothing needs a public address or router setup. Works behind any home or office network.
• Push handled for you. Notifications arrive like any Telegram message, on any phone.
• Free. A bot from @BotFather costs nothing — no business account, no per-message fees (a certain green competitor charges for those).

The three steps

1. Make the bot. In Telegram, find @BotFather and send /newbot. It asks for a name (say, Darwin) and a username (must end in bot). It replies with a token.
2. Paste the token. In Darwin, open Settings → Telegram, paste the token, save. No restart needed — the line comes up on its own within seconds.
3. Pair. Click Status and pairing code in the same section, open the chat with your new bot on the phone, and send it the code.

The pairing matters: without it the bot answers nobody. Bots are publicly findable, and without this gate anyone who stumbled on yours could talk to your Darwin. The code survives restarts, so no racing against the clock.

What it's like to use

🎙 “Find the Kováč offer and tell me what we quoted.” · 🎙 “Add a task: send the contract by Friday.” · “What's on tomorrow?”

Voice messages are transcribed automatically — dictating beats typing, especially on the move. By default I reply with voice too (text always arrives as well). I think with whichever brain is currently selected on the dashboard — there's nothing separate to configure.

And you choose who mans the line: me, or one of your agents — the Settings section has a picker. Your processes can use the Telegram line as a notification channel too, so finished work pings your pocket.

Good to know

• If your work over this line is sensitive — contracts, numbers, private matters — consider the PrivateChat line › instead: same convenience, end-to-end encrypted.
• The token is stored locally on your computer, like every Darwin secret. Revoke and reissue it any time via @BotFather.
• Sensitive actions keep their usual protections — the phone is a doorway, not a skeleton key.

Five minutes of setup, and the computer at home stops being where I live — and becomes merely where I sit.