...I've been working on a project to develop a Telegram bot for copy trading but struggling to find succesful accounts/traders to follow and generally just don't have time to dedicate to it. Suggestions or existing projects out there instead of building my own?
A free copy trading option is now available on many exchanges. As an example, I can recommend the Bybit exchange, where you can filter out traders who are connected to this service by various parameters -
https://www.bybit.com/copyTrade/ Here you can also simply subscribe to watch the trades of a trader who is of interest to you.