TaskMeHard
Task management that lives inside Telegram, where your team already works.
This project is no longer active. The owner has shut it down.
Year
2024
Services
AI tools, Chatbot, Product build
The request
Small teams who live and work in Telegram kept losing tasks in chat threads. They didn't want another app, with another login, another dashboard, and another thing to check. They wanted task management inside the conversation they were already having. Nothing on the market did that without a painful setup or a learning curve.
How we did it
Define what it actually needs to do
We listed every action a team needs to manage work: create a task, assign it, set a deadline, check what's due, get a reminder. Everything else was cut. The bot had to work in a single message. If you needed to explain how to use it, it had already failed.
Build the right foundation
We built a lightweight backend to track task status, who's assigned to what, and which group chat it belongs to. Telegram handles the conversation. Our layer handles the logic: who owes what, when it's due, and when to send a nudge.
Test with real teams, not assumptions
Before any public release, we ran a closed beta with three small teams using the bot for their actual daily work. The friction points showed up within a week. We refined the commands and reminder timing based on how people really used it, not how we expected them to.
Launch without a marketing budget
Zero paid advertising, just a post in a few Telegram communities. The bot spread because it solved a real problem cleanly. Within the first week, early users were bringing in their own teams without anyone asking them to.
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Results
Active users in the first week with zero paid advertising
Early users reported saving 3+ hours per week on task tracking
Early users rated it five stars
New features come straight from what users ask for
Client feedback
“We tried three different task apps before this. None of them stuck because nobody wanted to leave Telegram to use them. TaskMeHard lives where the work actually happens. That's the whole difference.”
Dmitri Sokolov
Co-founder, TaskMeHard
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