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Show HN: Kapso – WhatsApp for developers

https://kapso.ai/
19•aamatte•2h ago
Hey HN, I'm Andres. I've been building Kapso as a solo founder, and just crossed 4,000 developers, all organic.

WhatsApp has 3B+ users and 98% open rates. You'd expect developers to be building tons of stuff on it, especially when the US is the fastest-growing market in WhatsApp usage.

But it’s not happening… And I'd bet it's because the DX is painful.

Every team needs to build the same features again and again. Meta fires webhooks for everything. There's valuable data in there for debugging, but no way to make sense of it without building your own tooling.

That’s why I built Kapso. What you get:

- Working WhatsApp API + inbox in 2 minutes, not days - Full observability: every webhook parsed, every message tracked, actual debugging tools - Multi-tenant platform: generate a setup link, customer connects their Meta account, done - Workflow builder for deterministic automations and AI Agents - WhatsApp Flows: build mini apps inside WhatsApp using AI + serverless functions - Docs that work for humans and LLMs

We're up to 95% cheaper than Twilio, with a generous free tier (2,000 messages per month).

We also open source several tools: a TypeScript client for the WhatsApp Cloud API, a reference WhatsApp Inbox implementation, and a voice AI agent for WhatsApp.

GitHub: https://github.com/gokapso/

Happy to answer questions!

https://kapso.ai/

Comments

gonzalovargas•1h 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•1h ago
Thanks! Agreed on the composability pain. That's part of why we bundle inbox, observability, workflows, etc, together.
asms•1h ago
Congrats on the amazing product!
aamatte•1h ago
Thanks!!
silva96•1h ago
Looks nice
icarusmind•1h ago
Amazing product.
agustinf•1h ago
Hey aamatte, why do you charge 95% less than Twilio?
aamatte•1h 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.

francofantini•22m ago
I've been using Kapso for the last couple of months, and it’s flawless.
milanrafaeli•21m ago
Love it. Any plans for other integrations like instagram/linkedin?
luispa•2m ago
this is lit.

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