Recipe index

Use cases: what people ping themselves about

Every recipe here is you notifying yourself: your agent, script, server or smart home taps you on WhatsApp, and you can tap back. Zero setup: send join, get a key, wire it in.

Scripts & scrapers

Watchers & scrapers

Restock, price drops, appointment slots. Your script sees it first. Your phone knows a second later.

Read the recipe → Shipped apps

Vibe-coded apps

First signup, first sale, first crash. The app texts its maker.

Read the recipe → Workflows

n8n & Node-RED

An approval step your flow pauses on. Official n8n community node, or one HTTP Request node. No Twilio, no WABA.

Read the recipe → Markets

Trading bots

Signal pings and approve-a-trade. The human holds the trigger, always.

Read the recipe → CI/CD

Deploy gates

The pipeline pauses, asks on WhatsApp, ships only on your tap.

Read the recipe → Makers

ESP32 & sensors

If it can HTTP, it can tap you. Greenhouse, tank, door: one POST.

Read the recipe → Smart home

Home Assistant

Alerts from your smart home, two-way service calls. Native HACS integration.

Read the recipe → Command-bus

Text your infra

Text or voice-note your number and your automation answers. Replies in-window are free.

Read the recipe → Homelab

Servers & monitoring

Backup failed, disk full, cert expiring: the pager you already carry.

Read the recipe → Monitoring

Uptime Kuma

Down/up alerts on WhatsApp with the stock webhook: two fields, no plugin.

Read the recipe → Monitoring

Grafana

Alert rules → contact point → your phone. Custom payload, one Bearer token, Grafana ≥ 12.

Read the recipe → Monitoring

Alertmanager

Grouped Prometheus alerts straight to your phone: one receiver, Alertmanager ≥ 0.32.

Read the recipe → Scripts & scrapers

changedetection.io

Watched a page, got a diff, on WhatsApp. One notification URL, bundled Apprise.

Read the recipe → Monitoring

Apprise (any app)

One jsons:// URL turns every Apprise-embedded tool into a WhatsApp notifier.

Read the recipe →

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Send “join” on WhatsApp → Back to home Read the API

Every recipe runs on the same two endpoints (POST /v1/notify for a one-way ping, POST /v1/ask for a question with buttons) over the official Meta Cloud API. See how that compares and the API docs.