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The way I would put it as someone who works at Beeper is: only use messaging automations for personal use, and don't use it to spam anyone or do anything you wo
by batuhanicoz 6mo ago
The way I would put it as someone who works at Beeper is: only use messaging automations for personal use, and don't use it to spam anyone or do anything you wouldn't do yourself within the app.
As long as you don't abuse and keep your usage within the parameters of any human, you'll be fine.
- sigmoid10 6mo ago...until Meta decides they want to offer this kind of thing themselves and ban everyone else. Building your SaaS on top of someone else's SaaS is always a gamble, especially if said product is directly sold to users already and not a pure b2b intermediate.
- NoahZuniga 6mo agoMeta already has a whatsapp api product
- TeMPOraL 6mo agoFor spammers. They don't have one for regular people who want to do regular end-user computation.
- pancsta 6mo agoCompanies in spain use it for legitimate reasons, so its more a lack of usage which makes spam the only usage?
- TeMPOraL 6mo agoI consider marketing use to be spam, and this is what the API is primarily meant for. I understand that WhatsApp is kinda special in that it effectively replaced SMS in some parts of the world, but IMO this needs to be looked at through the lens of other Meta effort. The same is the case with Facebook/Messenger, and has been since before WhatsApp has been a (Meta) thing - they offer multiple different official ways to support spamming users and tricking them to buy stuff, but may the Lord have mercy on you should you want to create an auto-responder or "save to calendar" script and hook it up to your personal account.
- c0balt 6mo agoThat seems a but pessimistic. A few companies use it for customer service, like ime Adidas Germany [0] (they handled an exchange for me once on there). It is effectively just another customer support line like a chat portal on a website. [0]: https://www.adidas.de/en/help/contact-us https://www.adidas.de/en/help/contact-us
- kamma4434 6mo agoI personally find the almost absence of spam on WhatsApp a big success story for it. Think about how much Spam still hits your email inbox (and nobody knows how much is filtered away before it does). I totally understand why they try and make it hard for integration to happen. When compared to classic SMS, the fact that you need to start a conversation with a preapproved template means that they have a way to control casual interactions.
- joshwarwick15 6mo agoThey're already outright banning many OpenClaw usecases via their official API: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-changes-its-terms-to-bar-general-purpose-chatbots-from-its-platform/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-changes-its-term...
- trashb 6mo agoSince recently Meta offers this as per European Union mandate (Digital Markets Act, DMA). For both Whatsapp and Facebook messaging. [0] Now there are a lot of implementation requirements, basically forcing you to have some kind of messaging provider. Therefore difficult to apply for an open source solution. However there is such an interface. [0] https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability/ https://developers.facebook.com/m/messaging-interoperability...
- nurettin 6mo agoPersonal use is all fun and games until your little beeper goes into a loop.
- boxingdog 6mo ago[dead]
- theoryaway 6mo agoSomeone who previously helped a project Barista/instagrabber, you should be wary of it. https://web.archive.org/web/20240527132615/https://austinhuang.me/barinsta.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240527132615/https://austinhua...
- fg137 6mo agoThat's quite... something. I (almost) don't use any Meta products, but this just convinces me that I should stay away from it as far as possible.