Simple Bali Transfer

Context

In Bali, my husband and I met a local tour guide, entrepreneur, looking for a new way to make revenue. Given the taxi competition at the local airport, he came up with an idea for a convenient transfer for tourists to their destinations in Bali and around.  

Overview

The project goal was to create a simple web page, that would allow the visitors the register for a transfer from/to the Denpasar international airport. I decided to use Telegram Bot API to send the registration form information straight to Jimmy. 

Problem

• Add simple registration page and ability for the entrepreneur to contact back,
• Hide the Telegram Bot credentials from the client.

Solution

• Code a lightweight HTML and CSS web page,
• Create Telegram bot and send API requests as messages to the bot with all the information filled out by the client.
• Send request first to a Zapier Zap and then redirect the information to the Telegram Bot.