inkling
Open-source personal AI assistant that lives in your WhatsApp: email, calendar, group plans, reminders and errands. Self-hosted, and it asks before it sends anything as you.
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Details
- External ID
- 1409656222
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- inkling
- Website domain
- inkling.free
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.21
- Tags
- ai, ai-agent, ai-assistant, assistant, azure-openai, baileys, chatbot, claude, gmail, google-calendar, llm, open-source, openai, personal-assistant, self-hosted, typescript, whatsapp, whatsapp-bot
Enrichment
- Niche
- AI assistants for messaging platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted whatsapp personal assistant for daily tasks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A self-hosted WhatsApp AI assistant can be built with standard WhatsApp bot libraries (such as Baileys or WhatsApp Cloud API), LLM tool calling, and standard calendar/email integrations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #182 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
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- AI Assistant for WhatsApp — n8n Template · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Trelinx AI Receptionist · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Hiyori · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- AI Reply Assistant · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Iris · github · 2026-10-06 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Hello Aria · ph · 2026-04-17 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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