Shipped · Aug 2025 – Aug 2025

Gifts Alert Bot

Telegram bot that detects new NFT gift drops and upgrades on Telegram and posts real-time alerts to subscribed channels. Monetised via Telegram Stars.

Role: Developer
with Luka Krestinin
Stack: PythonTelegram Bot APITelegram StarsTON-adjacent
Verify: Telegram bot ↗

Gifts Alert Bot — auto-posts gift alerts to your channels

Gifts Alert Bot · the story

Watch the gifts. Alert the channel. Bill in Stars.

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Real-time
drops, rarity upgrades, supply changes: 1 tap
subscription through Telegram Stars: Queued
ingestion, cache-first reads

Poll, diff, post.

Detection to alert

A poller watches the gifts API; every change is buffered so throttling never drops one, then pushed to every subscribed channel.

Detection to alert

POLL

custom poller on the Telegram gifts API

DIFF

a new gift, a rarity upgrade or a supply change

QUEUE

events buffered so throttling never drops one

POST

alert to every subscribed channel

BILL

Stars subscription renews inside Telegram

Inherits the drop-time lessons from Autostickers

Gifts Alert Bot · the write-up

How it was built.

The companion project to Autostickers. Where Autostickers buys at drop time, Gifts Alert Bot watches the Telegram gifts ecosystem in real time — new gift drops, rarity upgrades, supply changes — and pushes alerts to channels of subscribers.

Subscriptions are billed natively through Telegram Stars, so onboarding is a single in-app tap. The infrastructure inherits the lessons from Autostickers: queue-backed event ingestion, cache-first reads on the hot detection path, and graceful degradation when the gifts API throttles during major drops.

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