Building Molty: A Telegram Assistant with Memory and Scheduled Checks
ChatGPT worked fine for one-off questions, but it was isolated from the systems I actually use: calendar, email, Strava, GitHub, Obsidian, Spotify, and the half-finished project notes scattered across repos. I wanted a small assistant I could run myself, with persistent memory, scheduled checks, and enough tool access to be useful without turning into a full product. So I built Molty. I didn’t type its code or its instruction files; Molty did, and 81 of the first 83 commits in its workspace repo are under its name. But it wasn’t a one-shot prompt: I was in the details the whole way, directing each change. ...