Mate Bot
August 3, 2022

What can Mate Bot do?

Hi! Thank you for interest to the Mate Bot for Telegram. Mate Bot is a matchmaking reel builder for groups of people. Read this post to know better how it works and what the Mate Bot offers you.

Note: the post tells about main features of the Mate Bot. This is not a tutorial. For a step-by-step guide check another materials or contact us!

Contents

  1. Intro: value of Mate Bot
  2. Join a group reel as a member
  3. Create a reel for a Telegram community

Intro: value of Mate Bot

As an intro, let's think about matchmaking activity. Yes, one from these apps with profile cards, likes and a lot of different people to swipe. You can find friends, relations or at least socialize a bit by choosing through different people.

We at Mate thought: what if people were able to smoothly create that sort of matchmaking activity for themselves? What if one could make a custom matchmaking process for a particular group?

Professional community, class of students, hobby club, industry event - there are a lot of groups with tens to tens of thousands members who barely know each other. And they don't mind to make new friends and contacts.
It would be beneficial to setup that "matchmaking activity" in the groups for members to smoothly connect based on mutual interest.

In other words, let any group has it's own matchmaking reel!

This is the idea behind the Mate. In the Mate Bot you can
- Create matchmaking reel for your group to make community more connected.
- Join matchmaking reel of some group to meet new people.

Alright, you've registered in the Mate Bot. Let's see what you can do.

Join a group's reel

You can join a matching reel of one or your Telegram groups.

Important: reel of Mate Bot is linked to a Telegram group. One group - one reel. Only people from the group can see and join the reel. This ensures a key principle of Mate - create a reel for a specific group of people.

Reel entry tab looks like this. You see available reels to join:

Here you can see the Friends of Mate group reel available. Use /join command to enter the reel.

Remember that since you can see reels for your groups only, there might be no reels available. But no worries! You can always join Friends of Mate group and check out our reel of Mate early adoptersπŸ’š

Seeing people on a group reel

On the reel you can look through intros of other people, one after another:

Card of person on the matchmaking reel

There are two reactions available.

"Wave" - means you are interested in a person. Use it to show the person that you don't mind to connect or just stay in touch.

"Next" - if you are not ready to connect with a person, just move on to the next one.
It is fine, you can change the reaction later on a members page.

Check the reel from time to time, it might have new people to see!

Open reel members page

Once you've seen some people at the reel, their intros are available for you at the members list. There you can check match status and see profiles once again.

List of seen members from matchmaking reel

Match status to the left of a name indicates if both people have a mutual interest. When there is a match (πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹ on the screen), you are shown a Telegram contact. "?" sign signals that person waved to you but you haven't seen them yet. Good opportunity to respond right away.

"/show" command opens person's profile to read and react.

Mate strives to become a multiple-times benefit for you. So, when you feel you could use some help, don't hesitate to revisit members list for warm connections.

Create a reel

The most rewarding, you can create your own reel!

Add the bot to your group to create a reel. There may be additional steps for different types of groups. Check a "Create reel" tab in the bot for comments.

Page with description on how to create a reel.

Reel creator capabilities

We provide reel creators with means to monitor the reel activity and interact with group members. Creator capabilities are available on the reel's page "Admin panel" tab.

There you can see Reel stats on how many people from the community have connected in the Mate Bot. Data is overall, no interpersonal actions disclosed.

Also there is an ability to create Custom tags. Use tags to help right people find each other quicker. Now you can define roles and turn your reel into matching platform! For example "startup - investor", "landlord - tenant", "hiring - looking for job".

To bring more people to your reel and enlighten community there are options to invite people and feature member. Make sure to check them out.

Important: reel creation is the beginning. Next you have to invite people of your group to the bot. Compose your own post or use Mate Bot templates.
*Once we implement automatic invitation messages, everybody will know :)

Conclusion

Thank you! It was the brief review of the Mate Bot features. Remember that the Mate bot for Telegram is just a one part of Mate project. We always think about various ways to make people matching smooth, exciting and beneficial. Use the Mate Bot and stay in touch!