I quit my job to launch a WhatsApp calendar assistant

https://www.textcoco.com/

by radurevutchi • 2 years ago

2 6 2 years ago

For those who don't want to install yet another app, I built a WhatsApp AI assistant to handle your daily research and manage your Google Calendar, lists, reminders.

Some challenging tasks Coco AI can complete instantly:

"Remind me to take vitamin D3 every afternoon until March" "Get child-friendly events in Dublin new years week, add to family calendar" "Find my grocery list and send my husband a reminder about it in 2 hours" "Find the next sunny day in SF and add beach day to calendar" "Add client lunch to the next available free slot on my calendar" "I found a house, remove ALL upcoming house tour events"

The Tech Meta API forwards incoming message to our webhook hosted on render.com w/ Docker. Incoming request converts to a message in our DB and we call our Agent loop w/ multiple tool calls (calendar read/write, reminders read/write, lists read/write, internet search, etc). Using GPT hosted on Azure / OpenAI. Google Calendar API for calendar event access. Practically everything is async. Postgres for DB, Next.js for frontend, FastAPI backend.

I quit my job for this in October. Would love all of your critical feedback, suggestions, and any questions!

asdffdasasdf• 2 years ago

nice. this, unfortunately, is the future.

1) protecting in any way against meta doing an appl and bundling this feature on WhatsApp?

2) which api are you using? paying by message? paying meta compute? or hacking with a business account?

radurevutchi3• 2 years ago

1. Cannot protect against meta doing this as well. Can only hope to make my service better than theirs. 2. Using the Meta API with a business account.

vinni2• 2 years ago

Why whatsapp? I don’t want to go to whatsapp to set reminders. Is this a common usecase for people?

1oooqooq• 2 years ago

yes. all the world, except white Americans. who are the only group still bewitched by blue SMS icons and facetime.

Whatsapp is what allow Zuckerberg to be so bold with the other zombie properties.

radurevutchi3• 2 years ago

WhatsApp is opened everyday by hundreds of millions of people. It's already installed on every-phone. The fatigue to open up a frequently used app is smaller than a rarely used app.

I quit my job to launch a WhatsApp calendar assistant

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