Laraue Software Blog — C# .NET Development & Open Source

Part 13 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. Users asked for a web version outside Telegram, so it needed its own login. Adding the Telegram Login Widget meant a second validation scheme alongside the Mini App's — and both end at the same JWT, because the app barely depends on Telegram past login.

Part 5 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. A clean .NET Telegram bot with ASP.NET-style controllers and middleware instead of a giant switch, a layered solution structure, and EF Core paired with linq2db on the same models for the queries EF Core handles poorly.

Part 3 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. Why Saved Messages is not convenient for managing tasks, which minimal scenario Laraue Boards started from, and why the user path is defined before development begins.

Part 2 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. Why we start with the interface, how AI HTML prototypes replaced Figma, and how the first Laraue Boards prototype turned out.

Part 1 of building a Telegram task tracker solo with AI. What problem we are solving, why the world needs another task tracker, and which two repositories the article series is built on.

An open source task tracker that turns Telegram messages into cards on a kanban board. Send a message to the bot, get a card you can work with in the web app or the Mini App. Free, and the code is open.