Teletype
Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Teletype (teletype.in) is a blogging platform with a Russian-speaking community and built-in donations. The platform describes itself as a "platform for publishing and monetizing any content: articles, notes, videos, photographs, podcasts or songs", while its official blog puts it more briefly: a "service for publishing and monetizing content".
Two things set Teletype apart from most blogging platforms. The first is an editor that needs no code at all yet still gives you your own domain: the platform promises you can "set up your own domain name and turn your blog into something bigger". The second is the tight coupling with Telegram: the service has an official bot that publishes posts to a channel.
There is also a legal quirk worth knowing up front. The terms of use are not concluded with a Russian legal entity: they name Supercoin Corp., at 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958, USA. At the same time, payouts to authors go only to Russian bank cards (see the section on monetization). That mismatch is a fact of the service, not an error in this description.
Who's here
The platform publishes neither the number of blogs, nor the number of readers, nor any country breakdown. The only visible figures are the counters on its own blog: on the check date the @teletype account had 14,500 followers and 26 posts. That is the metric of a single blog, not of the service's audience.
Individual posts hint at the order of magnitude for views. The post on connecting your own domain showed a counter of 57,000 views, and the one on moving articles over from LiveJournal and Telegraph showed 16,200. The post announcing donations reached 141,000 views. The numbers belong to the platform itself and refer to specific pages.
Language: the interface switches between Russian and English — the "about the service" page is served at addresses with the ?lang=ru and ?lang=en parameters. The bulk of the official blog's content is in Russian.
Getting started
Signing up is simple, and you can log in through Telegram: the bot "logs you in to your Teletype account — for that you need to open the blog settings and link Telegram".
There is no separate business account. The age threshold is set in the terms: "the service may be used by persons who have reached the age of 13; by using the service you confirm that you are at least 13". Geography is limited only by law: "the service is intended for use worldwide, wherever such a service is not prohibited by the laws of the relevant countries".
Migration from other platforms is provided for: the team announced the option to move your articles over from Telegraph and LiveJournal.
Your own domain is connected from the settings. In its help pages the platform explains that domains are attached to blogs, and if you don't have one you can buy it through GoDaddy, for example.
What you can publish
The platform lists the formats itself: articles, notes, videos, photographs, podcasts and songs. The editor is built for a non-technical author — "create beautiful publications with media without a single line of code" — and supports pinned posts, callouts, a typography helper and quick access to widgets (as the service's team reported).
Since 30 March 2025 there are reposts: "now you can share other people's posts in your own feed… you can add your own comment, or leave it as it is".
The rights to what you publish are described in the terms, and the wording there is unusual. The terms class as "Materials" the company's logo, design, texts, graphics, images, data, programs, audio and other files and call them "the property of the company, its licensors or users" — that is, the platform makes no claim to your texts, but it does not grant you a separate licence to them either. The user is granted a limited, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the service for informational, non-commercial and personal purposes.
What that licence forbids is spelled out directly: resale and commercial use of the service or the Materials; collecting and using any publications; distribution, public performance and public display of the Materials; creating derivative works; the use of data mining, robots and similar methods of gathering and extraction; downloading any part of the service other than caching pages. The clause about robots is worth remembering for anyone planning automated data collection from the platform.
Liability for repeat infringement is spelled out separately: the company "has adopted, in accordance with the DMCA, a policy of terminating service to subscribers and account holders found to be repeat infringers", and copyright complaints are accepted at [email protected].
How to grow
Until the end of 2024 the platform was a set of isolated blogs, and the team admitted as much: "today Teletype is perceived as a set of blogs independent of one another, each living in its own little world… users stick to a single author and don't even have a way to find out what else is interesting on the platform".
On 2 November 2024 a new feed was released, and it is the only distribution mechanism the platform describes. Its design: "a Twitter-like infinite feed split into three meaningful blocks: news, content and recommendations; posts in the feed can be filtered to trending ones or to ones from your authors; live updates about new posts". The same post announced "trending posts, personal recommendations and new interesting authors" — as of our check date these plans are not confirmed by any newer announcements.
There is advertising on the platform, but the author is not the one buying it: the team reports that "there is advertising too; it helps us earn and develop the product". We found no ad manager for outside advertisers on any public page.
The platform offers no analytics of its own and points you to external ones: "connect Google or Yandex analytics to your page to learn everything about your audience". The public view counter on a post is visible anyway.
Path to monetization
The main route is donations, and the platform described their terms in detail in an announcement dated 1 June 2022.
Commission. It is given as a single figure: "the combined service fee of Teletype, the payment service and the bank is 15%", and the platform specifies that it withholds the commission at the moment the blogger withdraws the money. A bank fee is named separately: "if the amount withdrawn is less than 1,000 roubles, the bank will add 30 roubles to the cost of the transfer; for Tinkoff bank customers there is no such fee".
Geography. The restriction is hard: "for now money can only be withdrawn to cards of banks in the Russian Federation". Technically it all runs on a third-party provider — "built on CloudTips, a service for cashless tips, donations and targeted contributions, from Tinkoff Kassa and CloudPayments".
Timing. "If it is a Tinkoff card, about a minute; if another bank's, from a few minutes to a couple of days at most". In the first month there is a limit: "you can only withdraw once a day, because we plan to moderate the trustworthiness of transactions and protect ourselves from fraudsters; once you pass moderation there will be no withdrawal limits at all".
Taxes. The platform states: "you are not required to pay tax (personal income tax) on the amounts received". This is a claim made by the service in 2022; whether it applies to your situation is for you to check yourself.
Subscriptions. Paid subscriptions had not launched as of the check date: on the page about the service they are marked "coming soon", even though they were promised back in the summer of 2022.
Tools and automation
We found no public API for Teletype. The main automation tool is the official Telegram bot, and the platform warns: "Teletype has only one official bot… do not trust the others".
What the bot can do is listed directly: create posts with text, pictures, links and conversion into widgets; delete posts; automate publishing posts from Teletype to a personal Telegram channel (after publication the bot asks permission to post); log you in to your Teletype account; manage article settings — privacy type, auto-publish, tags. Setup is described step by step: open the bot, log in, and for auto-publishing add it as an administrator to the channel and run /connect_channel, pasting the link to the channel.
Machine-readable feeds do exist: the blog serves RSS and Atom. External analytics is connected with Google and Yandex counters.
We found no third-party scheduling services with confirmed support for Teletype.
Limits and rules
- Age. 13 and over.
- Donation commission. 15% in total, withheld on withdrawal; plus a 30-rouble bank fee on withdrawals under 1,000 roubles, except for Tinkoff customers.
- Payouts. Only to cards of banks in the Russian Federation; in the first month — one withdrawal per day.
- Automated data collection. Directly prohibited by the user licence.
- Repeat infringement. A DMCA policy of terminating service.
- Changes to the terms. The company may change the terms at any moment and at its own discretion; changes take effect immediately on publication, and the user waives the right to separate notice.
- Jurisdiction. The operator is Supercoin Corp., Delaware, USA, and the Materials are protected by US copyright law.
- Resilience. In August 2025 the site was temporarily unavailable because of an outage at the domain registrar; the platform reported that no data was affected.
Who it's for
It suits a Russian-speaking author who runs a Telegram channel and wants to move long texts out to a separate platform with decent typesetting and a domain of their own: the "bot plus auto-publishing to the channel" combination covers that job completely.
It suits those who need donations from Russian cards without setting up their own card acquiring: switching it on takes minutes, and the commission is stated as a single figure.
It does not suit you if your readers pay with non-Russian cards: withdrawal is only possible to cards of Russian banks. It does not suit you if you are counting on paid subscriptions — they are still marked as a future feature. It does not suit you if you need built-in analytics: the platform sends you off to external counters. And it does not suit projects that need legal predictability: the terms are dated 1 January 2019 and may change without notice.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
the platform describes itself as follows: «A word is what you should start with. New publishing blog tool»
Self-description: this is the platform's claim about itself, not an independent assessment
source, checked 2026-07-28
Who's here
there are no public audience figures for the platform; the visible counters refer to individual blogs and posts (the official @teletype blog had 14,500 followers and 26 posts as of the check date)
A counter for one blog, not for the service's audience
source, checked 2026-07-28
Account and access
the service may be used by persons who have reached the age of 13 · the source is dated 2019-01-01
The terms are dated 1 January 2019
source, checked 2026-07-28
linking your own domain to a blog is supported
The same page describes moving articles over from Telegraph and LiveJournal
source, checked 2026-07-28
Business terms
Sources diverge: DISCREPANCY WITH THE REGISTRY: in the registry the platform is assigned to Russia, while the terms of use name the operator as Supercoin Corp. at 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958, USA (postal address — 340 S Lemon Ave #7764, Walnut, CA 91789)
Which entity actually carries on the business cannot be established from open sources; meanwhile payouts go only to cards of banks in the Russian Federation
source, checked 2026-07-28
Promotion
on 2 November 2024 a feed was launched: an infinite feed of three blocks (news, content, recommendations), filtering to trending posts and posts from your own authors, live updates; advertising is placed inside the feed and, according to the platform, helps it earn
Personal recommendations and a mobile app were announced; we found no confirmation that they shipped
source, checked 2026-07-28
How the money works here
the combined service fee of Teletype, the payment service and the bank is 15%; it is withheld at the moment the blogger withdraws the money · the source is dated 2022-06-01
An announcement dated 1 June 2022; how the 15% is split between the parties is not disclosed
source, checked 2026-07-28
when withdrawing an amount under 1000 roubles the bank adds 30 roubles to the cost of the transfer; for Tinkoff bank customers there is no such fee
On top of the 15% service fee
source, checked 2026-07-28
money can only be withdrawn to cards of banks in the Russian Federation; the mechanics are built on the CloudTips service from Tinkoff Kassa and CloudPayments
The restriction is stated by the platform directly
source, checked 2026-07-28
in the first month withdrawal is possible only once a day — until the trustworthiness of transactions has passed moderation; after moderation there are no withdrawal limits
Arrival times: about a minute for Tinkoff cards, up to a couple of days for other banks
source, checked 2026-07-28
paid subscriptions to content had not launched as of the check date: on the page about the service they are marked as «coming soon»
They were promised back in the summer of 2022 in the announcement about donations
source, checked 2026-07-28
Restrictions
the user licence does not cover data mining, robots and similar methods of gathering and extraction, nor downloading any part of the service other than caching pages
Resale and commercial use of the service and the Materials are also prohibited
source, checked 2026-07-28
Legal
in accordance with the DMCA a policy has been adopted of terminating service to subscribers and account holders found to be repeat infringers; copyright complaints go to [email protected]
The Materials are protected by US copyright law
source, checked 2026-07-28
API access
the official bot @TeletypeAppBot can: create posts (text, pictures, links, conversion into widgets), delete posts, automate publishing from Teletype to a Telegram channel, log you in to your account, manage article settings (privacy, auto-publish, tags)
The platform warns that there is only one official bot. We found no public API for the service
source, checked 2026-07-28
Languages
the interface language of the home page: en
The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang
source, checked 2026-07-28
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