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Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp

Details

External ID
49728159
Source
HN
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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

Competitors

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Attention rank: #134 of 359 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.

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