Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by bluedevil2k on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:53PM
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The most annoying thing is that you can’t just message a new phone number. You have to create a contact and then add their phone number to that contact, close the contact app to go back to WhatsApp, press “+” again, search for the contact you just made, select it, then start typing. God forbid the phone number is entered wrong and you have to go back into the contact app. Meeting someone in a bar/club (outside the US), it’s a 3-4 minute process with a high error rate. WhatsApp, let me type a phone number in directly into a new message!
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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by arp242 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @02:34AM
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You can get around that using a special "https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=[..]" and/or "https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=[..]" URL. I think the web. URL only works with WhatsApp web and the api. works on phones, but I'm not 100% sure (I typically use WhatsApp Web myself).
I have a simple form on my website to make that a bit easier: https://www.arp242.net/wa.html.
Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
by sebbyy on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:26PM
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Doesn't completly solve your problem but you can start sending message to a new phone number using an url. [0]
https://wa.me/{target-number}