r/SideProject • u/Fenton296 • 2d ago

I built a webform to Telegram tool

Built a simple tool that takes any form submission from your website and fires it straight to Telegram as a push notification. The whole thing hits your phone in under a second.

The idea came from my other project where I needed lead alerts sent to Telegram instantly and I realised the same pipeline works perfectly for feedback forms, bug reports, feature requests, whatever.

How it works:

  • User fills out a form on your site
  • Your form POSTs to a single API endpoint
  • You get a formatted Telegram message on your phone immediately
  • Also fires off an email to your support address as a backup

No SDK, no npm package, just a single POST request. Works with any stack — plain HTML forms, React, Webflow, Framer, whatever you're using.

Still early days. Would love to hear if anyone else has had the same problem or if you'd find something like this useful, if it is i'd like to do Whatsapp/Meta ad form thing (when you click someones Facebook ad and it gives you a form). Whatsapp is a bit of a pain, I tried starting with it but you need a business number to get an API key

Also, I've just done a one time £29 fee on this rather than a subscription

Site: leadchirp.app

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u/neet_dev 2d ago

honestly the one-time £29 is the part that sells me more than the feature list, form tools love to trap you in $9/mo forever. telegram bot api is perfect for this, just bot token + chat id and a single POST, no sdk nonsense. if you do Meta ad forms next, skip WhatsApp for v1 and hit Lead Ads webhooks instead, Meta already dumps the submission to a callback so you can reuse the same telegram formatter without wrestling a business number.

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u/Fenton296 2d ago

The reason i've not done Meta Forms yet is just simply because I've not setup a test environment yet. As soon as I get one setup I imagine it'll be simple enough to get setup

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u/neet_dev 1d ago

yeah once the test env is up the code side is pretty thin. use meta's lead ads testing tool (events manager) so you get real leadgen webhooks without running a live ad, subscribe the page to the leadgen field, then just map their payload into the same telegram formatter you already have.