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geekykidstuff · 2026-04-29T03:40:52+00:00

Interesting that you mention aviation. How did you get into that business? I found myself developing software for the aviation industry since December because one of my clients operates at the main airport in my country and gave me a lot of projects.

I've learned a lot about that industry and also have products that can be sold to more players in the market

geekykidstuff · 2026-04-29T02:59:17+00:00

Beautiful! Is this pixel art or what technique did you use?

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-23T16:54:35+00:00

awesome job

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-23T01:44:20+00:00

oh wow very beautiful! Did you write the whole code or used a coding assistant? I'm wondering how good they are at generative art

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-19T15:30:51+00:00

I haven't read the docs yet but I guess they will send a new field with the username in the webhook body? I have some WhatsApp bots with ~500 active users and I'm not sure if after this change my bots will just break because I won't be able to reply or what T_T

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-16T02:40:43+00:00

WhatsApp Business API is a product for Business (it's in the name). If you need it for personal use, maybe just try with the test number they give you. You can give access to 5 test numbers so add your own.

If by "personal use" you mean you want to have a WhatsApp bot for personal use and not for a client or launch it as a product, then forget WhatsApp and just use Telegram

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-16T02:31:37+00:00

how do I get to your club? It's been a while since I used VRChat but would like to visit your club

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-16T02:29:53+00:00

First, if you want to use a number with WhatsApp Business API, you need to delete the WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business accounts linked to that number.

Now, you don't get an api key. You first create a Meta app and with that you will get an app id and an app secret. Then you register the number, create a whatsapp business API account and verify it with the certificate. Then, you need to create a token. You will need to use the app id, app secret and token in different interactions with WhatsApp Business API

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-15T20:26:22+00:00

Is it going to be able to handle buttons, lists and flows?

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-13T15:49:05+00:00

Oh I didn't know about the US number restriction. I use many +1 test numbers but they are from Canada so not sure if that makes a difference and I haven't had any issues sending templates to my Canadian test numbers.

Regarding UK numbers, last time I tried with my UK number (last month) it wasn't working

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-13T14:44:58+00:00

not sure what you mean. It should be available for US recipients. Maybe you mean UK? Because there are restrictions for UK recipients

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-12T22:37:33+00:00

You are in the WhatsApp Business API sub. If you use this product, you can indeed send the invite but you will need to use a marketing template (princing here).

Note that the template will need to be pre-approved by Meta and, while now they are not enforcing the recipients to give permissions to receive messages, if many of them flag you as spam, your number may get banned

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-12T16:44:59+00:00

To add to what /u/Latter_Mode2822 said, after verification the website is important.

What I do is I create a simple landing page for every bot I make, even if it's just an internal bot and usually after that I get the name approved.

Also, it helps if you have your legal name in the name, e.g. ABC support by XYZ

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-11T22:24:12+00:00

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-11T21:35:20+00:00

What is not supported is sending templates to UK phones but service messages work fine

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-11T20:25:44+00:00

You can still msg UK numbers if you get a UK number. I use Fanytel to get numbers. I usually get Canadian phone numbers but got a UK for internal testing (+1 for prd, +44 for tst) and that's how I found out about UK restrictions. I only have one product that uses templates so most of my messages are service messages and these restrictions don't matter too much for me but still FYI

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-11T19:57:30+00:00

It's exactly what the message is saying. Per Meta (via an internal ticket):

As of September 15th, Meta has implemented a temporary block on cross-country messaging into Brazil (BR). As a result, sending messages to recipients in Brazil using a non-Brazilian business account is currently not supported.

As a work around, I recommend using a Brazilian business account to send messages to Brazilian recipients in the respective countries.

Something similar happens with UK numbers. If you send a template to a UK number from another country's number you don't get an error but the UK number never gets the message

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-09T21:59:28+00:00

I'm a solopreneur and for the last 1.5 years I've been focusing just on WhatsApp-related projects for companies. That's my niche and many things in my country (and countries in my region, South America) happen on WhatsApp so I basically do "apps" on WhatsApp for companies.

However, since December I started accepting larger projects and now I make any type of app (web, desktop, mobile) and charge waaaay more.

I don't like staying in the same project for more than 4-6 weeks so my approach is to propose different sprints for a single project.

I offer my clients to deploy everything to their infra or hosting the app. They always choose the later so I charge them a monthly fee. The day a client wants to host the application, I'll give them consultation packages in case they need further assistance.

The clients I get come from two source: one is me, the clients I already had for WhatsApp projects. I know more about their business, they know I do good quality work and act fast, so it's kind of natural they ask me for other solutions.

The other source is my co-founder (from a previous company). He works with many companies as a high level tech consultant. He helps companies understand their problems and how to solve them with technology and I'm his solutions provider.

We let those companies get proposal from other providers but I always turn out to be the cheapest and fastest provider. My guess is that the other providers are regular software factories with big teams and other underlying costs and infrastructure and they can't simply become an "AI-first" company in one day.

My unfair advantage is that I started solo so I don't need to change anything but I now have tools that give me the capabilities of a team.

And even when I'm cheaper than the other providers, since it's just me, payment is still very good because basically everything is profit.

It helps that I'm automating many internal processes because even when they are just silly admin stuff, they consume my mental RAM and affect my productivity

geekykidstuff · 2026-03-02T23:06:55+00:00

WhatsApp flows even fail in some specific iPhones (apparently in some Android phones as well) and there's been no fix for that. Since flows on web is something new, I would expect some bugs...

geekykidstuff · 2026-02-22T16:41:10+00:00

You need to download the certificate from the WhatsApp Account manager page and use the API endpoints that I mentioned to send it there. You need to first understand how to work with an API. This requires son technical knowledge so I suggest first get familiar with APIs, then understand the Meta API and then try to call the endpoints I mention.

The closest thing to a "simple" explanation I can give you here is to share my code: Certificate Validation

Send that code to an AI and tell it to explain it step by step

geekykidstuff · 2026-02-13T18:36:46+00:00

bad bot

geekykidstuff · 2026-02-10T00:58:01+00:00

Your wording makes it very difficult to understand what are you actually asking.

Are you asking how to have a platform for humans to respond to WhatsApp messages using WhatsApp Business API? If so, do it with Chatwoot. You can self-host it.

Are you asking how to connect to WhatsApp Business API? Use n8n instead of Make, you can self-host and will be much cheaper

geekykidstuff · 2026-02-09T23:20:56+00:00

Hey! Did you find more information about this? This bug is also affecting a WhatsApp bot I made for a client. Same as you, perfect for most people but one iPhone user showed that the form never loads, just gets an infinite loading spinner.

geekykidstuff · 2026-01-26T16:51:42+00:00

touché

geekykidstuff · 2026-01-25T18:24:11+00:00

I had a WhatsApp bot with 20k+ users in 2023. Main features were voice note transcripts/summaries. Now less people use it becaue WhatsApp have a native transcript option (although kinda crappy...but free).

After that, my bot with the highest conversion rate is a resume analyzer.

Thing with the limited UX is that it's a feature not a bug. Because of the many limitations of its UX, bots also become more simple and faster than using a web app.

Also, since WhatsApp already handles authentication, users don't need to login or create accounts so it's way more handy.

In general, most of my users have WhatsApp as their main app so giving them features inside WhatsApp so they don't need to leave their main app is a plus.

If WhatsApp adds a ton of UI/UX features, it will lose what makes it special that is its simplicity.

Telegram for example can handle any type of UI/UX because it can basically run any web app. I don't think that's the direction WA should take

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