diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d67c9da..4121728 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*
+.DS_Store
 !.gitignore
 !docker-compose.yml
 !README.md
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30833ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "telegram-listener"]
+	path = telegram-listener
+	url = https://gitea.musk.fun/nocr/telegram-listener.git
diff --git a/telegram-listener b/telegram-listener
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..b17f3db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/telegram-listener
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit b17f3dbd0aa341c449c1c21f4c21f8327a8f34f6
diff --git a/update-submodules.sh b/update-submodules.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..fece610
--- /dev/null
+++ b/update-submodules.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+git submodule update --init --recursive --remote
+git add -A
+git commit -m "Update all subrepos to their latest upstream changes"