Show HN: Kapso – WhatsApp for developers

48 pointsposted a month ago
by aamatte

27 Comments

gonzalovargas

a month ago

Congrats, this is a strong primitive for modern SaaS, especially in LATAM.

Building software today increasingly means integrating dozens of external services rather than building systems end to end. Email, auth, analytics, billing, AI tooling, and observability each come with their own accounts, configs, SDKs, and API keys.

This composability is powerful, but increasingly inefficient.

It makes me wonder when we’ll see a platform that bundles these services with unified accounts, billing, auth, and configuration by default, instead of having to configure and manage each one independently.

aamatte

a month ago

Thanks! Agreed on the composability pain. That's part of why we bundle inbox, observability, workflows, etc, together.

valtlfelipe

a month ago

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?

aamatte

a month ago

thanks! yes, we use the official Meta API

properbrew

a month ago

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.

aamatte

a month ago

thanks! and yeah, the integration pain is exactly why I built this.

let me know what you think once you try it!

properbrew

a month ago

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.

aamatte

a month ago

yeah unfortunately you need a Facebook account

properbrew

a month ago

Ahh gutted. I should have realised this from the wording for sandbox mode:

> Get a Kapso sandbox number to test your integrations. Start building without a phone number or Meta account.

It might be good just to state that you need a Meta account for a number.

terryds

a month ago

Wow. this is beautiful. Congrats on the launch!

francofantini

a month ago

I've been using Kapso for the last couple of months, and it’s flawless.

milanrafaeli

a month ago

Love it. Any plans for other integrations like instagram/linkedin?

aamatte

a month ago

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.

kodefreeze

a month ago

Do you have support for whatsapp group management?

agustinf

a month ago

Hey aamatte, why do you charge 95% less than Twilio?

aamatte

a month ago

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.

asms

a month ago

Congrats on the amazing product!

RadiozRadioz

a month ago

Why are you using the .ai TLD? This doesn't look like it has anything to do with AI.

user

a month ago

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aamatte

a month ago

at the beginning Kapso was more focused on ai agents :)

RadiozRadioz

a month ago

Interesting. I recommend picking up a new domain name, they're cheap and the AI thing might confuse people or make them skeptical (it has for at least one person)

cdotte

a month ago

really necessary