Botkit
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i built Botkit because i couldn’t find a good way to see what other people are actually working on in robotics. a lot of projects seem to be scattered across Discords, X, private chats, or never shared at all.Botkit is a simple experiment: you add a WhatsApp number and post project updates (text, photos, videos) while you’re building, like you’re messaging a friend. those updates become a project others can follow.you can also forward purchase receipts and it’ll automatically extract the parts used, mostly so people can learn what actually goes into real builds. here's an example of what your AI assistant on Whatsapp will keep up to date for your followers to see: https://botkit.com/danamajid/ollyi’m trying to learn a few things: - are there good robotics communities or Discords I’m missing? i'd love for the directory to include all sorts of projects - if you’re working on a robotics project, would you be willing to share it publicly?this is early and pretty raw. curious to hear what people think.
HN · launched Dec 23, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: niche social networking platforms · 322 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▲ +26% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a community website with user profiles and an inbound WhatsApp bot integration (e.g. via Twilio or Meta API) that saves messages and images into a database.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #190 of 200 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 47 days after the earliest competitor.
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