Deploy and Host Telegram Follow-Up Inbox Bot on Railway

A Telegram bot that turns your chat into a personal follow-up inbox. Forward messages or drop them in a group called "Follow Up Inbox" — then manage everything with simple commands like /open, /done, /due, and /snooze.

About Hosting Telegram Follow-Up Inbox Bot

This bot runs as a single Python worker process on Railway, polling Telegram for new messages. All your data is stored in your own Supabase PostgreSQL database — Railway hosts the bot, Supabase holds the rows. There's no web server, no frontend, and no shared database. Once deployed, the bot runs continuously in the background. You interact with it entirely through Telegram. Setup takes about 10 minutes and requires a free Supabase account and a Telegram bot token from @BotFather.

Common Use Cases

• Capturing follow-up tasks from Telegram conversations without leaving the app
• Logging forwarded messages from group chats as actionable inbox items
• Managing a personal task list with due dates and snooze reminders via Telegram

Dependencies for Telegram Follow-Up Inbox Bot Hosting

• A Telegram Bot Token (free, from @BotFather)
• A Supabase project (free tier works) with the inbox table created via the provided schema.sql

Deployment Dependencies

Telegram Bot: https://t.me/BotFather Supabase (database + API): https://supabase.com Schema setup: run schema.sql from this repo in your Supabase SQL editor before first deploy

Implementation Details

Set these 3 environment variables in Railway before deploying:

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN # from @BotFather SUPABASE_URL # Supabase → Project Settings → API → Project URL SUPABASE_KEY # Supabase → Project Settings → API → service_role secret key Then run this SQL once in your Supabase SQL editor:

-- from schema.sql in the repo CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS inbox ( id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY, user_id BIGINT NOT NULL, timestamp TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL, originally_from TEXT, original_chat TEXT, message TEXT, has_media BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, status TEXT DEFAULT 'Open', notes TEXT DEFAULT '', due_date TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NULL, created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW() ); ALTER TABLE inbox ENABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY;

Why Deploy Telegram Follow-Up Inbox Bot on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Telegram Follow-Up Inbox Bot on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.