KPI Students Launch Telegram Bot That Helps Find a Partner or New Friends
More than 10,000 people have already used the bot.
KPI students Andrey Samoshin and Anton Yurash created the bot @CommunitiesRobot, which allows users to find a partner, new friends or company for an event by answering just 6 questions. According to the project's creators, more than 10,000 Telegram users have already used the bot, of whom about 4,000 were looking for friends with common interests and more than 3,000 for company to spend time with. The founders claim that every fourth user of the bot successfully finds a partner.
TK Media spoke with the founders of the project, students Andrey Samoshin and Anton Yurash, about where the idea came from, who the product's target audience is and what monetization options the team is considering.
Andrey Samoshin
co-founder of the project, student at IASA KPIThe idea for the project came up rather spontaneously when my partner struggled for a long time to find a team to play football with. There are many different themed chats, but they are all makeshift solutions to the problem of finding company based on interests. We began studying this issue and concluded that a similar situation exists in other areas, from knitting to the IT sector. The same goes for cultural events: to find company for a concert, I (if I'm going alone) have to spam the comments on the organizers' Instagram pages or look for other fan pages. We created a product that helps solve all these problems in one place. This is especially relevant for teenagers and students who, depending on their communication skills, often face the problem of finding new friends, company and so on
According to the students, they began planning the project 10 days before Freshers' Day, and within a week the bot had its first users.
Anton Yurash
co-founder of the project, student at FICE KPIWe quickly and profitably reached agreements with several student Telegram channels and gained a cheap, highly engaged audience. Three days after the release, the bot already had more than 500 users and over 20 positive reviews from students!
Currently, the CommunitiesRobot team has 2 founders: Andrey Samoshin and his partner Anton Yurash, but two more programmers who handle the technical solutions also work on the team. Andrey Samoshin is in his second year at IASA, while Anton Yurash is pursuing a master's degree at FICE. The team is considering ways to monetize the project through advertising based on users' interests and is also open to investment
You can launch the bot by clicking the link.
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