Building a Telegram bot is one thing. Getting people to discover it is another.
That problem is what led me to build Kiver.
"https://www.getkiver.com" (https://www.getkiver.com)
The problem I wanted to solve
Telegram has an ecosystem of bots and Mini Apps for almost everything: AI assistants, productivity tools, finance, education, gaming, automation and more.
Developers spend time building these products, improving their features and trying to attract users. But once a bot is ready, discovery becomes a challenge of its own.
A Telegram link is useful, but it doesn't always give a product the broader visibility it needs. Potential users may not know the bot exists, and developers need more ways to put their work in front of relevant audiences.
I wanted to build something that could help bridge that gap.
What is Kiver?
Kiver is a discovery marketplace for Telegram bots and Mini Apps.
The idea is straightforward: help users find useful Telegram tools and give makers a public place to showcase what they've built.
On Kiver, users can:
- Browse Telegram tools across different categories.
- Search for bots by name, username or use case.
- Explore individual product pages.
- Upvote tools they find useful.
- Open listed bots directly in Telegram.
For developers and makers, Kiver provides a way to turn a Telegram link into a dedicated, shareable product listing.
Giving Telegram tools a public home
One part of Kiver I'm particularly interested in is discoverability beyond Telegram itself.
A maker can submit a public Telegram link, review the listing details, select a category and publish a product page.
That page gives the tool a dedicated URL that can be shared in communities, included in documentation or discovered through search engines.
The goal is to create another discovery channel for Telegram products instead of relying entirely on someone already knowing a bot's username or receiving its link from another person.
Of course, a public page doesn't guarantee search rankings or new users. The challenge is building a useful directory that people actually want to visit.
I'm still growing it
Kiver is an early-stage project, and I'm starting to see traffic coming to the website.
It's not massive traffic, and I'm not going to pretend it is. But seeing people visit a product you're building is useful feedback. It gives me a reason to keep improving the experience, expanding the directory and thinking more carefully about how users discover and evaluate tools.
The next challenge is turning visits into something more meaningful: people finding useful products, makers getting discovered, and visitors returning because the directory helps them.
That's the kind of growth I want to build toward.
What I'd like to improve
There are several areas I'm interested in developing further:
- Better discovery: Helping users find relevant tools without having to know their names beforehand.
- More useful listings: Making it easier to understand what a bot does before opening it.
- More makers: Bringing more developers into the directory so users have a wider selection of tools.
- A stronger community: Making product feedback and voting more useful for both users and builders.
The important part is making the directory valuable to both sides. More listings are useful, but only if people can find tools that genuinely solve their problems.
Try Kiver
If you've built a Telegram bot or Mini App, you can explore the directory and submit your own project.
Website: https://www.getkiver.com
Browse the directory, see how listings work, or launch your own Telegram tool on the platform.
I'm building Kiver in public and would appreciate feedback from developers, indie hackers and anyone working in the Telegram ecosystem.
If you build Telegram tools, what is the biggest challenge you've faced when trying to get your first users?
I'd be interested to hear what has worked for you.
Top comments (1)
Turning a bare t.me link into a page that can be shared and found in search makes a lot of sense. Telegram's own discovery gets thin fast once you're past the big-name bots.
I'm a Staff SDET, and since shareable pages are the whole point here, I took a look at the site. One thing worth fixing early is link previews. The homepage, /directory and the category pages have no og:title, og:description or og:image at all, so when someone pastes getkiver.com into Telegram, X or Slack, they get a bare URL or whatever the app manages to guess. The individual bot pages do have OG tags, but og:image is a relative path (/api/image?u=...). Most preview crawlers need a full https:// URL there, so the bot's avatar often won't show in the card. Those are exactly the pages makers will be sharing. The usual fix is to add the OG and twitter:card tags to the shared layout and build the image URL from your site origin.
We found 3 other issues too, nothing dramatic.
How are you seeding listings right now? Are makers submitting their own bots, or are you adding most of them yourself?