Penny

A Telegram bot that tracks shared expenses in group chats.

April 17, 2026

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About

Tracking expenses should be no more complicated than sending a chat message. So I built Penny — an expense-tracking bot that helps my husband and me track expenses in a Telegram group chat.

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[Video 1] Tracking expenses in a Telegram group chat.

Technical Details

  • The user interface: Telegram
  • The memory & display: Google Sheet
  • The brain: Claude API
  • The server: Railway

Connection between different platforms [Fig 1] How Penny connects different platforms.