Built something the r/selfhosted crowd might appreciate: Telechat — a self-hosted Claude AI bot that connects to Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and web chat from a single process.
Why self-hosted matters here
Anthropic launched Claude Code Channels recently — Claude on Telegram/Discord, managed by Anthropic. It works great, but every message goes through their cloud. Telechat takes the opposite approach:
Runs on your machine (laptop, VPS, RPi, NAS — anything that runs Node.js or Python)
Messages flow: phone → your server → Anthropic API → back to phone
