# Telegram Serverless

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Telegram Serverless and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free serverless platform that comes with a SQLite database built in, which people praise. Critics say it lacks secrets management and other developer features.

## Why people recommend it

- Built-in SQLite database included (1 comments): "Providing a SQLite db out of the box is a nice touch." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919636))
- Clever core idea (1 comments): "Clever idea! Although after reading it briefly I see a need for secrets storage." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920727))

## What people warn about

- Missing secrets management (2 comments): "Clever idea! Although after reading it briefly I see a need for secrets storage." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920727)) "they have so little support for developer amenities like secrets management, dependency management, cron tasks, TypeScript" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922830))
- Lacks dependency management and cron (1 comments): "they have so little support for developer amenities like secrets management, dependency management, cron tasks, TypeScript" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922830))
- Text seems LLM-written (1 comments): "This reeks of LLM... why should I use your product when you can't be bothered to have a human write it?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920368))
- Mentioned setting not found (1 comments): "that setting isn't even there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924602))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Cloudflare Workers](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-workers.md): 190 recommend
- [AWS Lambda](https://hackerapproved.com/p/aws-lambda.md): 84 recommend
- [Cloudflare Pages and Workers](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-pages-and-workers.md): 6 recommend
- [Cloudflare Python Workers](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cloudflare-python-workers.md): 6 recommend
- [Deno Deploy](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deno-deploy.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Telegram Serverless", https://hackerapproved.com/p/telegram-serverless/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).