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hermes-whatsapp-voice

Live WhatsApp voice calls with Hermes: call your bot, or let Hermes call you. Hermes plugin + whatsapp-rust sidecar + Gemini Live.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 81 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views

Niche: ai voice agents and platforms · 197 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▲ +25% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Communication
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • gemini-live
  • hermes-agent
  • hermes-plugin
  • voice-assistant
  • whatsapp

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Could you build this?

Partial The Gemini Live integration and Hermes plugin are vibe-codeable, but live WhatsApp voice calling depends on an unofficial protocol sidecar. Making calls reliable needs networking, real-time audio, and protocol reverse-engineering expertise.

What it would actually take: The architecture is a Hermes plugin that talks to a sidecar process built on a WhatsApp client library (whatsapp-rust), which handles signaling and WebRTC-style media, bridged to Gemini Live's streaming audio API. The hard parts are WhatsApp's undocumented call signaling and media stack, plus low-latency audio transcoding (Opus and PCM) and jitter handling. Building it reliably takes someone comfortable with real-time media and protocol work.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #35 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.

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  • Wavoice · ph · 2026-10-30 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Gemini 3.8 & 3.8 Live Extended Thinking · ph · 2026-09-16 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Orion Workers · ph · 2026-10-30 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Weave · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Soapbox · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • WhisperType · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • HermesConsole · github · 2026-10-17 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.41

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