Claude Code + Telegram: The $350/Month Stack That Replaces a Dev Team
Hiring a developer costs $5,000-15,000/month minimum. A full dev team? $50K+. I’m running the equivalent output of a 5-person team for $350/month. Here’s how.
The Complete Stack
Claude Max ($200/month) — This is your entire engineering team. Frontend, backend, DevOps, database, SEO, copywriting. One AI that does it all.
Hetzner VPS ($40/month) — Your server. Hosts all websites, runs all automations. Ubuntu + Nginx + PHP/Node.
OpenRouter API (~$110/month) — Powers the content generation automations. 95 articles per day across all sites.
How It Actually Works
Every morning, I open Telegram on my phone. Claude is connected via a Telegram bot. I send messages like:
- ‘The homepage slider is broken on mobile, fix it’
- ‘Add a drug database to doktorbul with AI-generated content’
- ‘Create a KPSS quiz system with 50 questions’
Claude reads the code, understands the context, makes the changes, tests them, and reports back. All while I’m having coffee.
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Our Education Pack teaches you exactly how to set this up — from server configuration to Claude prompting strategies.