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Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by kingkongjaffa »

_def wrote: post #8

If I find out someone pipes my chat messages into a LLM, I will not converse with that person anymore.

I mean, the technology is not the issue. Someone can read your past conversations today and take diligent notes to unearth the same insights an LLM might, if they were so inclined.

This might a actually be helpful for people with poor memory or neurodivergent minds, to help surface relative context to continue their conversation.

Or sales people to help with their customer relationship management.

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by linux_devil »

I am not sure about how other Whatsapp MCP servers build , but I like the design here : Go server to integrate with Whatsapp , scan the QR etc which acts like a bridge and lightsql to store some data APP MCP server : To interact with the data , app and LLM

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by gus_massa »

CarlitosHighway wrote: post #9
samastur wrote: post #6

Cool work, but I'm more fascinated by your claim "99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp...". Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.

The way to absolute dominance of WhatsApp with the Normies has't been sufficiently analyzed, I reckon. Somehow, WhatsApp managed to become extremely popular and heavily used by people who have trouble switching on a desktop pc. Even senior citizens have no trouble using it. Is it because they have a high motivation to use it? The UI / UX of WhatsApp surely isn't great, I'd even say it's quite bad. Where am I wrong? W…

> Where am I wrong? What am I not seeing?

The killer application are the group chats. Normies can't make an email group, or remember to reply to all, or even make a Yahoo! Group [dead] or Google Group [dead?].

It's very easy to setup a group in WhatsApp and keep the member list updated.

For bonus points, it's very difficult to Ctr-C the info in WhatsApp, it's easier to press the arrow and forward the message to another WhatsApp group.

Once you have all your groups in WhatsApp, it's easier to use it for everything.

PS: Also, a few eons ago in many countries SMS had a cost, and WhatsApp was free, it was so another good point to use it.

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by kevindamm »

stavros wrote: post #20
rndmio wrote: post #5

The why is because we can, but damn am I finding the tools being built with, or having tacked on, AI depressing. Is this a small glimpse of the future we're building for ourselves? Communication is valuable because thought and effort went into it, lowering the bar on producing content doesn't mean more choice, it means lower quality. Already I see a reaction against this amongst some peers when they find out somethin…

If we find the "thought and effort" part of communication valuable, we'll keep it. If not, we won't.

That would be a fine posture to take, very naturally-selective, but I find it discomforting because I've seen so many different ways that humans act that don't benefit them (individually or on the whole). It isn't always out of self-destruction or lack of self-preservation. More often than not, the choice was based on what's easiest -- a tendency towards the path of least resistance. This technology looks a lot like trading off intention, and attention, for quick and good-enough(?) results. Enough so that I can understand GP's concern for our communication skills as a society.

I think we could find ourselves losing the "thought and effort" in spite of it being more valuable, because many people find it easier. Or that even those who continue on with it, despite it not being easier, are broadly labeled as a bot because their writings failed the vibe check.

I have confidence that there will always be small communities that continue holding this as valuable, but that maintaining it in a community setting will become more strained as the general zeitgeist drifts in the direction of regarding output higher than effort.

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by cvladan »

samastur wrote: post #6

Cool work, but I'm more fascinated by your claim "99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp...". Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.

Exactly

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by mrweasel »

samastur wrote: post #6

Cool work, but I'm more fascinated by your claim "99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp...". Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.

Some people I know seems to be more split between Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. I don't see anyone being 99% in one app, and certainly not WhatsApp. I think I know like three people who use WhatsApp privately.

I do know people working in sales and purchasing and I wouldn't be surprised if they had 25% or more of their professional lives in WhatsApp. Previously they used Skype heavily. So this could be interesting for them.

Re: Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server

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Post by bilekas »

hackernewsdhsu wrote: post #29
_def wrote: post #8

If I find out someone pipes my chat messages into a LLM, I will not converse with that person anymore.

Funny that people freakout about a local LLM while using Facebook products. They're probably the same types who use it to do their work.

> They're probably the same types who use it to do their work.

Citation needed.

It's a local LLM with access to an extraordinary amount of personal data. In the EU at least that personal data is supposed to be handled with care. I don't see people freaking out, but simple pointing out the leap of handing it over to ANOTHER company.

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