I worked on this project for 11 months of the year. I put well over $50,000 in everything that is where it is now. I grinded almost 12 hours a day, sitting here debugging, reverse engineering & coding the patch for this whole application. It took an incredible amount of dedication & persistence. Every living day, from 08:00 in the morning to 20:00 at night.

The biggest problem in this thing you guys call "com", is that no one here actually cares for Privacy or Security, you guys are just all in your own version of "the fast lane" and you just think about fast money, which makes sense, why wouldn't you especially while risking your freedom to do so.

Honestly, BetterTelegram was made for 1 simple thing, to fill the void between "I don't care" and "I want to work seamlessly". BetterTelegram was made not to be a burden for the user, but as a SEAMLESS integration into your everyday messenger. You are using Telegram one way or the other, and apps like Signal/Matrix/Element/etc, so if you have privacy apps already installed on your PC, why not give Telegram the option to be private too? BetterTelegram is seamless, it doesn't bother your experience, it doesn't interrupt workflow, it just sits there, and when you want to upgrade your security in a chat - you go OTRv4/OMEMO - simple as that!

My burden is; after all my effort & work that I put into this project, I reached my peak - anything I did, people would just criticize or judge my project. Nobody would ever accept it, just constant banter ...

You claimed my project was a hoax
- I made the entire project open source https://github.com/bettertelegram-client/gui
- I added real-time VirusTotal API scanning on https://bettertelegram.com/scans
- I publicly have all Patch.DLL builds being pulled from https://github.com/bettertelegram-client/internal/releases - every version since 1.0 is stored there, so anyone can pull them (compare file timestamps and Github upload dates)
- I got @vxunderground to review my app (https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1986596060949610860) only because I was told that many of you looked up to him
- I publicly opened a contest for any Reverse Engineer to step forward & personally write a report/analysis on Patch.DLL (FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE)
- I made countless videos about the inner workings of my project, refer to this very first video from 5 months ago (credits to @sadness & @ethsony https://t.me/bettertelegramorg/6)

You even told me "no one is going to use an app by a random person on the internet"
- I KYC'd/Doxed myself to Twitter, and became a gold verified organization (https://x.com/better_telegram)

The truth of the matter is, anything I did, everything I tried for countless hours (over 3000 hours in 2025, since January 7, proof: https://x.com/better_telegram/status/1980129761503355359) — still, you guys still "have no reason to use BetterTelegram". This underlying fact, is what is my biggest demotivation for working on this project is. After all my hard work & effort, the fact remains that from over 1000 channel members and over 100 group members, there has only been 18 active users in the last 2 months.

It's pretty demotivating overall, I mean I heard of slow beginnings, BUT NOT THIS SLOW!

So to answer your question, after being personally $50,000+ deep & 3000 hours of endless work - no, my motivation was not MONEY, it was USERBASE. But given that I'm averaging a whole 10 new users per month — it's not very motivating wouldn't you say?