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I Built a Telegram-Based Hosting Service. Now I Need to Find My First 50 Customers.

I didn't start SyndiHost because I wanted to build another hosting company.

I started it because I wanted to simplify a process that kept feeling more complicated than it should.

Hosting a website often means dealing with several separate things:

hosting;
files;
domains;
DNS;
SSL;
migration.

If you have one website, that's manageable.

If you work with multiple websites, the routine becomes much more noticeable.

My idea

I decided to put the user interface inside Telegram.

The concept:

User

Telegram bot

Backend

Hosting infrastructure

The bot handles the user interaction while the backend handles the actual work.

One of the main features: copying websites

I wanted users to be able to take a ready website and prepare it for hosting without going through a long manual process.

Because copying can take time, I built a queue for longer operations.

The flow is roughly:

User starts task

Task enters queue

Server processes it

Result is returned
The product

SyndiHost currently combines website hosting and website copying in one Telegram-based workflow.

Hosting starts at 49 RUB/month.

The core promise is intentionally simple:

Copy → host → done.

Now comes the hard part

The product is working.

Now I need to find out whether people actually want it.

My first milestone is:

50 paying users.

Then:

100 → 300 → 500.

I'm planning to test content, communities, search traffic, direct outreach and other acquisition channels rather than assuming I already know what works.

If you're interested in the experiment, the project is here:

https://t.me/SyndiHost_bot

I'd also be interested in hearing how you currently handle website migration and hosting.

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“The product is working” and “My first milestone is: 50 paying users” are two different checkpoints. Interest in Telegram alone isn't the demand signal yet; the stronger one is someone bringing a real site they need moved — and caring enough about the next migration to pay again. The useful question is which kind of site owner feels this often enough that “copy → host → done” changes their week. What kind of user are you testing first?