Readit Newsaamatte commented on Show HN: Kapso – WhatsApp for developers kapso.ai/... · Posted by u/aamatte
Why are you using the .ai TLD? This doesn't look like it has anything to do with AI.
at the beginning Kapso was more focused on ai agents :)
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Documentation and sandbox is good, however is the facebook account a hard requirement to getting a number and templates setup? I've paid the $6 for a number however I don't have (or want) a facebook account, so seems I'm a bit stuck.
yeah unfortunately you need a Facebook account
Do you have support for whatsapp group management?
soon!
Let's goo! That's awesome! Finally a decent API with a generous free tier. Thank you for that.
Quick question, are you using the official Meta API on your side?
thanks! yes, we use the official Meta API
This is really really cool, and thank you for the free tier as well.
Always been a bit put off using WhatsApp as I've seen the pain some devs have had to go through to integrate it, this looks smooth.
Excited to have a play around with this.
thanks! and yeah, the integration pain is exactly why I built this.
let me know what you think once you try it!
Love it. Any plans for other integrations like instagram/linkedin?
Thanks! For now we're focused on going deeper on WhatsApp. There's still a lot to build. But other channels aren't off the table eventually.
Hey aamatte, why do you charge 95% less than Twilio?
Twilio priced WhatsApp messages like SMS: $0.005 per message.
That made sense for SMS where you send one message and you're done.
But WhatsApp conversations don't work that way. People send bursts of short messages instead of one long one.
A typical conversation can easily hit 30-50 messages. Building AI agents with that pricing gets expensive fast.
At Twilio's rates, 100k messages would cost you $500.
Our Pro plan is $25/month and includes 100k messages.