ManyBot
Framework to build WhatsApp bots, without the boring part
Details
- External ID
- 49727647
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ManyBot
- Website domain
- manybot.org
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5853269537480064
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
Description
Built on top of Baileys. The goal is to handle all the tedious work—opening sockets, authentication, reloading—and leave you to focus solely on command logic and how you want your bot to be.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous ai agents for business
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- framework for building whatsapp bots
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes ManyBot is a lightweight modular wrapper and plugin layer over the existing Baileys WhatsApp library, which is a straightforward TypeScript wrapper project suitable for vibe coding.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 62 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 63 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 267 days after the earliest competitor.
- Botkit · hn · 2025-12-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- StenlyBotBase · github · 2026-09-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Data2AIBot · ph · 2026-09-28 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ChatNestly · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- AI Grow Bot · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Wabizo · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Zernio WhatsApp API · ph · 2026-06-19 · 362 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp · hn · 2026-09-16 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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