Very cool! The Stripe integration is neat

BTW, if you can help me: I've been struggling with WhatsApp Business API for some days to make my app receive webhooks. It receives the GET verification request but when I send a message to the number I never get the POST. Have you had this problem?

Pricing feedback: That's $13/yr more than the full-blown Day One premium service.

Out of curiosity why WhatsApp vs regular SMS (via Twilio)?

Telegram would be a better choice as you can use multiple devices. You can retrieve old images/docs And it has an API for your bot that you can use to post content from anywhere.

I use Whatsapp often and one major issue I have with the app is how older media gets lost in the history, it's not retrievable anymore, you can only see the blurry thumbnail but downloading it again will not be possible. So until recently, I've considered everything I send on whatsapp as ephemeral unless I back it up.

Also, is exporting possible? Let's say I would like to export all text / media to my pc, is that possible?

Trusting something as private as my personal diary to 3rd party sounds like a scary idea from a privacy point of view. Imagine someone hacking this site, exposing your very private information.

I wish there was something like that end-to-end encrypted. You are already using E2E encryption for the communication channel (WhatsApp). I wish there was a hookup to store the same data without breaking down the chain of encryption. WhatApp should look into that. Something like ProtonDrive connected to WhatsApp and APIs.

Huh yeah that's good to hear. As a small note, on my personal bot I set up a simple journaling (and then just used google sheets as the backend!) includes a nominal 'rating' 1-10 so I can see how my mood fluctuates.

Especially if they do it every day/most days, having the option to see what you wrote "on this day" 2-3 years back is great. Especially when I try to include people's names who I was interacting with (but who are easy to forget 3 years later). It can be a nice reminder to text them and say you were "just randomly", unprompted, thinking about them -- 'How's it going?'

@rahulg Could you tell me about your experience getting approved for production on the meta business account? I’ve been trying to get approval for months now. it’s always denied. Building on Whatsapp has been impossible for this reason. Any tips?