Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp
Details
- External ID
- 49728159
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6706539074960127
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
Description
Hi,I built Chat-Man because I wanted a cheap way to give my agents access to WhatsApp without integrating a WhatsApp library separately in every project.You get WhatsApp MCP server, so you can connect WhatsApp to an agent and programmatically read, search, extract and send messages - but also have a web UI for non-techies.You can also receive webhooks for incoming messages for starred conversations.What you can do with the MCP? -Read WhatsApp messages and turn them into CRM records -Summarise conversations or groups -Extract structured information from messages -Find messages, participants or other WhatsApp data -Send messages -Manage group membershipsOf course.. you always need to follow data protection regulation.The web UI: -Edit group details -See who joined or left -See who is most active -Export group members -Match members against a CSV (e.g. from a CRM) -Bulk message members -Bulk kick members -Create invite links For individual contacts, you can send messages directly from the UI.Why I built it for myself? I needed WhatsApp access for several projects (hermo.ai, florahaus.co.uk, …) and didn't want to pay for a WhatsApp integration for each project.Link: https://chat-man.netI’d love to get some feedback, especially from people building agents that need access to WhatsApp. Fabian
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous ai agents for business
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- whatsapp integration for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a model context protocol (MCP) server wrapper around standard WhatsApp automation libraries or APIs, which can be generated readily with AI coding tools.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Superchat, Baileys, whatsapp-mcp
Concerns raised: risk of WhatsApp account bans, WhatsApp Terms of Service violations, unencrypted local message storage, data privacy and conversation leaks, LLM safety and trust with full permissions
Feature requests: local model support
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Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
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