GOLDOFF
A Telegram shop for Standoff 2 gold and Roblox Robux: over 100,000 users, up to 1,500 active a day. For two and a half years I was its only developer.
- Period
- 2023–25
- Code
- Closed
The task
An in-game currency shop that lives entirely inside Telegram: balance top-ups, withdrawals into the game, reviews and a partner programme. The owner and a couple of admins who handled requests worked with the bot.
I built the first version in 7 days in the summer of 2023, when I was just starting out, and grew it for two years on the fly without a rewrite: the bot was live and taking payments the whole time. aiogram 2 and SQLite held up past 100,000 users, but today I'd pick aiogram 3, PostgreSQL and tests.
What I did
- 01
Balance top-ups
Automatic payments checked against the provider's API: first Aaio via my own AaioAsync, later FreeKassa. Plus manual card transfers, with the receipt checked by an admin.
- 02
Withdrawals into the game
Gold goes out through a skin listed on the Standoff 2 market, Robux through a Game Pass with Roblox's fee factored in. An admin reserves a request so two people never take the same one, and overdue requests are listed separately.
- 03
Money without duplicates
Manually confirmed top-ups were sometimes credited twice; I found and closed the gap. Payments checked through the API never doubled once.
- 04
Growth inside the bot
Promo codes, referral bonuses, partners with their own links and share, a top-donors board, a summer contest and star-rated reviews.
- 05
An admin panel in Telegram
Admin roles and permissions, staff with a profit share and payout history, stats, bans, a maintenance mode, rates and payment methods. Broadcasts to the whole base within Telegram's limits.
Stack
- Python
- aiogram
- aiohttp
- SQLite
- APScheduler