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telegram-finance-bot

A personal finance Telegram bot, designed as both a working product and an SA portfolio piece. Source code is private; this section publishes the design, decisions, and plans.

  • Stage 1 (MVP-1): personal use — single user + close circle.
  • Stage 2: small multi-tenant for friends/family.
  • Stage 3 (long horizon): paid SaaS-style product.

Architecture is designed for Stage 3 in SRS/ADR; implementation iterates from MVP-1.

  • Architecture Decision Records — Michael-Nygard-style ADRs covering the load-bearing choices.
  • Design — system-level architecture documents.
  • Plans — implementation plans.
  • Templates (proposed) — lean-format SA templates being evaluated for this project.
  • Bot framework: aiogram 3.x (async)
  • DB: PostgreSQL for users/accounts, TigerBeetle for the transaction ledger
  • Money: Decimal everywhere; multi-currency from day one
  • Deployment: single VPS, docker-compose; long-polling (no public webhook)