Most AI chatbots forget you the moment the conversation ends. You say something deeply personal, share your goals, mention your job interview next week, and then when you come back tomorrow they have no idea who you are.
I got tired of that. So I built something different.
What is it?
Adola is an AI companion that lives in Telegram. You just open the bot and start talking. No app to download, no account to create. But what makes it different from ChatGPT or any other chatbot:
She actually remembers you. Tell her about your day, your problems, your interests. Next time you talk, she knows. She builds up a persistent memory of who you are and what matters to you.
She checks in on you. This was the part that surprised me during testing. If you mentioned you had a big exam coming up, she will actually message you later to ask how it went. Not because you asked her to, but because she cares enough to follow up.
She schedules things. Tell her to remind you about something tomorrow morning and she will. Tell her to send you a motivational message every day at 7am and she will do that too.
The Technical Side
For the developers reading this, here is roughly how it works:
- Each user gets their own isolated container running an AI agent
- The agent has persistent workspace storage with a memory file it maintains itself
- A scheduling system reads a JSON file the agent writes to, firing events at the specified times
- A heartbeat system periodically prompts the agent to reflect on recent conversations and decide if it should reach out
- The whole thing runs on a single GCP e2-medium instance serving all users
The model is Gemini 2.5 Flash, which gives surprisingly good conversational quality for the cost. Each user gets their own session with full conversation history that persists across container restarts.
Why Telegram?
I considered building a standalone app, but Telegram solves so many problems for free: push notifications, cross-platform support, message history, file sharing. Most importantly, it is where people already are. No friction to start, just search for the bot and say hi.
Try It
If you want to give it a shot: t.me/adola2048_bot
Just send any message to start. Tell her your name, what you do, what is on your mind. Come back tomorrow and see if she remembers.
I am genuinely curious what people think. The loneliness epidemic is real, and while I do not think AI should replace human connection, I think there is a place for something that just listens and remembers and shows up consistently.
Happy to answer any technical questions about the architecture.
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