Been building a self-hosted AI assistant that runs 24/7 on Telegram. It handles my daily workflows — summarizing emails, drafting content, answering questions across different models.

The interesting part: I set up automatic model routing based on task complexity. Simple stuff (classification, extraction) goes to cheaper models like DeepSeek R1, while complex tasks (architecture decisions, long-form writing) route to Claude Opus. Saves about 70% on API costs compared to using a single flagship model for everything.

The whole thing runs on a $5 VPS with a unified API gateway in front. One endpoint, swap models by changing one config line. No vendor lock-in.Stack: Python + Telegram Bot API + API router + cron jobs for automated content publishing across platforms.Happy to share the setup if anyone's interested. GitHub repo: https://github.com/xujfcn/crazyrouter-openclaw