[ Idea ]Found 13 Nov · 1 YC · 1 GitHub · 1 Product Hunt

Homing

Your coding agent reports to WhatsApp, even after hours.

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The problem

Solo builders running coding agents have no reliable way to send tasks and get results through WhatsApp.

WhatsApp's official business API only allows free-form messages for 24 hours after a user's last message, so a long job that finishes later has nowhere to report unless an approved template is sent. Setting up verified templates and paying Meta per message is more work than most solo builders will do, while unofficial bridges risk bans.

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The idea

Homing is a hosted, officially verified WhatsApp sender that delivers your agent's results and handles Meta's 24-hour window and templates for you.

1Message the Homing number on WhatsApp to get a one-time code.
2Run one pairing command in your terminal to link your agent.
3Get task status and summaries on WhatsApp, and reply to steer the agent.

Price: Free: 50 relay messages a month. Pro: ₹299/month (about $4) for 1,000 messages, unlimited agents, the window keeper and fallback alerts. Pay-as-you-go top-up packs for heavy users. Team: ₹999/month for 5 seats. Meta's per-message fees are passed through at cost beyond the included messages. UPI via Razorpay for India, card for others.

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Who paysThe individual builder, paying by UPI or card. Small teams of 2-5 can pay on one plan. Agent-hosting resellers who want to offer WhatsApp could pay later through an agency tier.

Who uses itSolo builders and tiny teams (mostly India-first) who already run coding or personal agents, such as Claude Code, Codex or OpenClaw, and want to dispatch tasks and receive results on WhatsApp instead of at a desktop terminal.

First 10 users1) Post a 30-second screen recording on X: Claude Code finishes a refactor, a WhatsApp card arrives with Approve / Show diff / Run again buttons, and a voice-note reply steers the next step. Offer 10 free founding slots in exchange for feedback. 2) DM the builders who already post about Claude Code Telegram or WhatsApp setups on X and LinkedIn, and offer to pair them in five minutes. 3) Post in Indian indie-hacker, hackathon and Superteam India chats, and in GDG on Campus and Takshila groups, where many members already run agents on college Wi-Fi and overnight jobs. 4) Pair each early user live over a call so the setup friction shows up before launch.

Why not just AIThe user's agent can already write a WhatsApp message. What it cannot create is a business-verified Meta sender, approved utility templates, a managed 24-hour window, Meta billing, and uptime when the user's laptop sleeps. Homing supplies those: one trusted number, a pairing code, a window keeper and fallback alerts. An agent plus a skill would fall back to an unofficial bridge, which can get the user's personal number banned. Homing never runs an LLM itself, so it is a delivery rail rather than a chatbot.

[ Inspired by ]What it borrows, and what's different

Claude-Code-Remote
Open-source bridge that sends Claude Code completion notifications to email, Discord or Telegram and accepts replies as commands. Homing is a hosted service on an official WhatsApp sender with no tokens or tunnels to configure. It adds window management and fallbacks, and it works with any agent through a hook or HTTP call.
My Claude Remote Mode
A desktop app that pipes Claude Code permission requests and completions to WhatsApp or Telegram. It runs on your own machine and depends on your own WhatsApp session. Homing keeps messaging in the cloud, so reports still arrive when the laptop is asleep or the window has closed, and it doesn't depend on an unofficial personal-number session.
Raven (YC Fall 2026)
A phone rebuilt around agents, a place to send agents from and have them report back. Homing gives the same send-and-report loop on the phone and WhatsApp people already have, for ₹299 a month rather than new hardware.

[ Sources ]10 cited

Anthropic's official Claude Code channels are Telegram, Discord and iMessage. WhatsApp is only available through a community plugin, which is flagged as risky if misconfigured.awesomeclaude.ai ↗
Meta's docs say free-form (non-template) messages can only be sent inside a 24-hour window that opens when the user messages, so they respond but cannot reach out. This is the gap Homing's window keeper fills.developers.facebook.com ↗
Since Oct 1, 2026 Meta charges per message for service replies inside the window beyond 1,000 free messages per number, so a shared number with pooled billing is cheaper and simpler than each user setting up their own.visitoai.com ↗
Meta bars general-purpose AI assistants as the main product on the WhatsApp Business Platform but still allows notification and task-specific messaging. Homing must stay a structured notification relay, not a chatbot.respond.io ↗
Remote-control setups are popular enough to have many DIY guides, which shows demand and also the manual setup burden (bot tokens, tmux, pairing codes).dev.to ↗

[ Idea ]Found 13 Nov · 1 YC · 1 GitHub · 1 Product Hunt

Homing

Your coding agent reports to WhatsApp, even after hours.

Should you build this?Checking

This idea is still going through the six checks.

0 products · 10 sourcesPending

The problem

Solo builders running coding agents have no reliable way to send tasks and get results through WhatsApp.

Seen in 1 YC · 1 GitHub · 1 Product Hunt

The idea

Homing is a hosted, officially verified WhatsApp sender that delivers your agent's results and handles Meta's 24-hour window and templates for you.

1Message the Homing number on WhatsApp to get a one-time code.
2Run one pairing command in your terminal to link your agent.
3Get task status and summaries on WhatsApp, and reply to steer the agent.

[ The six checks ]0 of 6 done

1Not built in alreadyNot checked

2An AI agent can't do itNot checked

3Nothing similar existsNot checked

4People pay for thisNot checked

5Strong scoresNot checked

6Real sourcesNot checked

1 · Not built in alreadyNot checked

2 · An AI agent can't do itNot checked

Who paysThe individual builder, paying by UPI or card. Small teams of 2-5 can pay on one plan. Agent-hosting resellers who want to offer WhatsApp could pay later through an agency tier.

[ Inspired by ]What it borrows, and what's different

Claude-Code-Remote
Open-source bridge that sends Claude Code completion notifications to email, Discord or Telegram and accepts replies as commands. Homing is a hosted service on an official WhatsApp sender with no tokens or tunnels to configure. It adds window management and fallbacks, and it works with any agent through a hook or HTTP call.
My Claude Remote Mode
A desktop app that pipes Claude Code permission requests and completions to WhatsApp or Telegram. It runs on your own machine and depends on your own WhatsApp session. Homing keeps messaging in the cloud, so reports still arrive when the laptop is asleep or the window has closed, and it doesn't depend on an unofficial personal-number session.
Raven (YC Fall 2026)
A phone rebuilt around agents, a place to send agents from and have them report back. Homing gives the same send-and-report loop on the phone and WhatsApp people already have, for ₹299 a month rather than new hardware.

[ Sources ]10 cited

Anthropic's official Claude Code channels are Telegram, Discord and iMessage. WhatsApp is only available through a community plugin, which is flagged as risky if misconfigured.awesomeclaude.ai ↗
Meta's docs say free-form (non-template) messages can only be sent inside a 24-hour window that opens when the user messages, so they respond but cannot reach out. This is the gap Homing's window keeper fills.developers.facebook.com ↗
Since Oct 1, 2026 Meta charges per message for service replies inside the window beyond 1,000 free messages per number, so a shared number with pooled billing is cheaper and simpler than each user setting up their own.visitoai.com ↗
Meta bars general-purpose AI assistants as the main product on the WhatsApp Business Platform but still allows notification and task-specific messaging. Homing must stay a structured notification relay, not a chatbot.respond.io ↗
Remote-control setups are popular enough to have many DIY guides, which shows demand and also the manual setup burden (bot tokens, tmux, pairing codes).dev.to ↗