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Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp... by srvmshr on Thursday January 05, 2023 @05:01AM (#34257881)
This is a privacy nightmare. Maybe its a cool project to think about for OP, but these are real chats of people and the whole idea of E2E encryption & private nature of your information is defeated the moment one indulges in such a app. There is no guarantee how much PII is retained on the server.

Edit: Looking at all the green accounts praising the post, I think @dang should check if these involve a voting ring.

Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp... by anshulagx on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:07AM (#34258634)
I thought a lot about privacy while building this. Tbh nothing can be done to satisfy all the critics but I have tried to do all I can. That includes open sourcing the code and not having a database at all. It doesn't collect Metadata as well.
Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp... by zvr on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:38AM (#34258878)
Consider submitting the source code GitHub repo instead of some running service.

In the repo, have example exported data that are used as input and generated output.

Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you create your WhatsApp... by anshulagx on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:05AM (#34259669)
As mentioned the code is open source. The link to the repo is in footer of the site. The backend repo contains a sample response in JSON format.