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.
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.
Quick question, are you using the official Meta API on your side?
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.
let me know what you think once you try it!
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.
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.