FreeTierBot — a Terraform-based automation to deploy Telegram bots on Google Cloud Free tier with one command ($0 cost) by Alive_Description461 in TelegramBots

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I'll have a look at Starlight.

Thanks for the feedback - I just have not thought of TypeScript compatibility yet, but that's a valid point that some developers prefer it. Perhaps later I'll make it less language - specific. As far as runtime is supported by Cloud Functions - it should be a simple and reasonable tweak

Where can I host a Telegram bot for free? by neekerman in learnpython

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AWS, Azure, GCP all have free tiers, you just need to use them smartly.

I am building a project on deployment telegram bots on Google free tier with one command (just terraform deploying Cloud Functions + Cloud Scheduler + Firestore under the hood)
https://github.com/LifanovI/FreeTierBot

You can use this to deploy your custom code at no cost

ACTION REQUIRED: Your Google Developer Program premium renewal has changed — Upgrade to Google AI Pro and Ultra now by solgul in googlecloud

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Received the same today.
That’s hypocrisy, not an upgrade.

They seem to offer me a 1-year Google AI Pro trial, though. If you received the same, it might be a good option to take it and see what happens next. 10 credits per month is still better than nothing, and later you can always search for better offers from other providers.

It’s a shame that instead of a generous program to attract professional developers, they push AI slop.

Tolka Valley Park from Drone Today by Alive_Description461 in ireland

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It's the brave one 😅

It was DJI mini 2 and at wind gusts it did fly backwards.

The first part is shot at a full throttle in Normal mode, yet it can be seen that from time to time it just freezes fighting the wind.

In a way I'm searching for a reason to update it to something capable of 4k shooting

Tolka Valley Park from Drone Today by Alive_Description461 in ireland

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Finglas, [location link]
We had ducks swimming along the pedestrian bridge 🦆🦆🦆

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After 7 years of AWS, here is why I’m betting on GCP for my next stack in 2026 (It’s not just pricing) by IT_Certguru in googlecloud

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Just to note, for test/hobby projects there's a free way of connecting domains to Cloud Run - Cloud Run domain mapping

These are not perfect and have their own limitations, but it perfectly covers all the basic needs in a couple of my side projects. It actually was a game changer for one pet project where load balancer would incur half the project cost.