How did i bought shazambot from a Cuban for 30$?

I started shazambot 4 years ago. A lot has changed in that time.

In 2021, I was finishing university (I'm partly a programmer by education), I was bored and came across a tool that allowed you to find music by its fragment, just like the famous shazam app.

I thought it would be a good idea to make a telegram bot out of it - so I did, in a couple of days.

But there was a problem...

One of the important factors in the development of any telegram bot is the nickname.

If you come up with a good nickname, people will find you by searching.

It was hard to come up with something better than @shazambot.

But naturally, that nickname was taken by a Cuban.

I wrote to him and convinced him to sell me the nickname for $30. I don't speak Spanish so the all communication was done through google translator. This investment paid off many times over. Investing in a Telegram bot turned out to be more profitable than investing in bitcoin. It gave me almost x 10,000 to my original investment.

That's how the story of shazam began.

Then I noticed that people were frequently searching for music and decided to add music search.

After about a year, when the bot was growing at 300 people a day, I thought it would be nice to grow faster.

I had an idea.
What if we let people create their own personalized shazambot?

This is how the bot builder came into being: users create their own clones, develop them independently and get paid for it.

The idea worked. From a technical point of view, it was a nightmare. A car on fire that doesn't break down only when it's not being used, and it was always being used.

I literally went everywhere with a laptop to be able to promptly fix the next breakdown.

Thankfully, that's in the past. Now, 4 years later, the system is stabilized, but I still have the habit of carrying my laptop with me.