Iris
Self-hosted WhatsApp safety monitor for kids: classifies text, voice notes, images and video with OpenAI Moderation and Whisper, and alerts parents over WhatsApp via OpenWA.
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Details
- External ID
- 1407524294
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- Iris
- Website domain
- docker.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.16
- Tags
- child-safety, cloudflare-workers-ai, content-moderation, docker, fastapi, hebrew, homelab, multilingual, openai-moderation, openwa, parental-control, python, react, self-hosted, speech-to-text, whatsapp, whisper
Enrichment
- Niche
- WhatsApp and messaging automation tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted whatsapp moderation tool for parental monitoring
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system orchestrates existing third-party APIs (OpenWA for WhatsApp, OpenAI Moderation, Whisper) within a lightweight containerized backend script.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 132 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #128 of 133 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- invi8 · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- whatsapp-dental-clinic-bot · github · 2026-10-04 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- inkling · github · 2026-10-08 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- inkling · ph · 2026-10-09 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AI Assistant for WhatsApp — n8n Template · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Hello Aria · ph · 2026-04-17 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Hiyori · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- MailOnChat · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
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