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Show HN: Control Codex via WhatsApp using a Codex plugin

Posted by abuiles on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:50PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/abuiles/codex-whatsapp-relay

Codex plugins were released just yesterday, and I wanted to try something I’ve always wished for: controlling Codex from my phone.I put together a small relay that connects WhatsApp to Codex, so I can:- start a session from my phone - send follow-ups while I’m away from my computer - then pick everything back up later on desktopUnder the hood it uses the new plugin system (skills +...

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Re:Show HN: Claude skill that evaluates B2B vendors by talking to thei... on Thursday March 26, 2026 @02:28PM (#47533978)
This is great! I’ve been exploring a similar idea with Shopify merchants https://lobsterstores.com/

Each merchant has an MCP. I’m building a directory and creating a skill that lets clankers discover and interact with their MCPs. I receive a checkout link to securely complete the payment.

I've been thinking what the "agent" side means for a merchant, building yet another chatbot is not really interesting. I'm talking with some merchants and trying to figure out the answer to that question.

Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:19PM (#23230326)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://web.hypothes.is/ --- it's a non-profit trying to solve the same idea. They are actually trying to advance on the ideas of the w3c annotation's working group and do everything open source.
Re:Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:36AM (#15807554)
re: tooling

I've been using Truffle too. My biggest issue when getting started was the cognitive overload. If you want to try Truffle I wrote a couple of simple guides that helps you deploy your first Ethereum smart contract to a test net https://blog.abuiles.com/blog/2017/07/09/deploying-truffle-c...

Re:Ask HN: Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of... on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:33PM (#15761904)
Interesting! Those things are exactly what the book tells you not to do.
Re:Ask HN: Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of... on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:26PM (#15761861)
"Start with no" by Jim Camp ;)
Re:Ask HN: Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of... on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:14PM (#15761806)
+1 on "Nonviolent Communication" - if anyone is interested I have some directive like notes from the book here https://blog.abuiles.com/reading-feed/nonviolent-communicati... -- going through the book is important for the context but this can give you a quick overview of what it is about.

Other books in my list are:

- Punished by rewards by Alfie Kohn

- On the shortness of life by Seneca

Re:Show HN: Readwise – Review and retain your Kindle highlights on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:07PM (#15342521)
Super interesting, I did a small tool for myself for this same purpose. Is a mix between highlights and Evernote https://kintrospect.com/
Re:Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:55AM (#12701139)
One of the episodes of Revisionist History talks about genius and different types of innovation, through the episode they talk about Cohen and how his song Hallelujah was not an overnight success. Cohen worked on it over 5 years to get it to a point where he was comfortable with!

Dylan is also mentioned in that episode, since they had some kind of mutual admiration. Apparently Dylan and Cohen meetup at some point and Dylan asked Leonard how long it took him to write Hallelujah and he lied saying "2 years". Then Cohen asked Dylan how long it took him write "I and I" and Dylan said: "oh, like 15 minutes".

If you are interested in exploring more, I annotated a bunch of fun facts from that episode https://www.listeningcrowd.com/podcasts/1-revisionist-histor...

Re:Ask HN: It's Jan 1 and you're building a new Saas app: What framewo... on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @11:42AM (#8819970)
+1 on this, Ember + Rails is a really cool combination, also check http://ember-cli.com/ (and if you want to learn Ember, I wrote a book https://leanpub.com/ember-cli-101).
Re:Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what? on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @10:39AM (#8630570)
I wrote and publish a book through leanpub about Ember.js: ember-cli-101[1]. I started to sell it without finishing it and it was bringing about $500/mo, but now that is completed sells are going up. I hope it would be above $2000/mo for the following months.

[1] https://leanpub.com/ember-cli-101

Re:How to set up an Online Tutoring Business. A Programmer's Guide [pdf] on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @12:29PM (#7773449)
Sure, http://blog.abuiles.com/consulting/
Re:How to set up an Online Tutoring Business. A Programmer's Guide [pdf] on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @11:24AM (#7773038)
This is great! I do something like this but is more focused to companies, basically they pay me X monthly and I'm available to help them with Ember.js.

I do not offer a signup button because I don't want to take every company, I prefer to talk with them first, understand what they are doing, and then decide if I take them as clients or not.

Re:Offer HN: I will work for free this Wednesday in São Paulo or REMOTE on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:06PM (#7113133)
hey man, send me an email [email protected] if you want to grab a coffee.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013) on Sunday December 01, 2013 @02:26PM (#6828768)
Got an email I can contact you? Not related directly with the position, but interesting to hear how are you using Ember.js.
Re:Rails will Ruby-kill Meteor — on why on Sunday November 10, 2013 @01:06AM (#6705479)
Also there is this blog interviewing people/companies using Ember http://emberenos.com/
Re:Stripe launches German beta on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:05AM (#6283133)
Any plans for Latin American countries?
Re:Show HN: It's hard to make friends offline, so we built a solution on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @02:08PM (#5781579)
I really like the concept, I was thinking on something like this a while ago, but it was around the concept of going out to dinner with someone, sometimes you want to try a new restaurant but your friends are maybe busy or they don't fancy the food, even though you could go on your own, eating alone is not always fun.
Re:The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses on Saturday May 25, 2013 @01:38PM (#5767988)
I wanted to contact people from some companies but their email was not in their profiles, I found this script in github https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester which looks for emails given a domain.

Is super useful, even though It wouldn't give me the email I was looking for, it would show me the "structure" used for emails inside the company:

   [email protected]
   [email protected]
Based on that I would just guest the email of the person and it used to work perfectly.

This is perfect for doing customer development, also if you are doing cold reach outs remember to follow the CAN-SPAM act.

Re:Dear HN "Who's Hiring" responders on Monday April 01, 2013 @11:23PM (#5477517)
agree with this, actually I prefer to write to people who post <name>@<company.com> rather than jobs@.

I feel it is a more personalized chat :)

Re:Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...? on Sunday March 24, 2013 @08:28PM (#5434545)
I know I'm required to have visa for a bunch of places but not sure which ones, would be really cool to see given your nationality all the countries for which you are required to have visa.

btw, I'm Colombian, we don't need visa for Russia and Turkey (Data not available yet in your DB).

Re:Ask HN: On companies hiring remote developers and why don't you do it? on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:52PM (#5247672)
Companies hiring you will likely not want to pay more than the market rate for you, where "market" is defined as your geographical area.

That's true, I remember a client once asking me why was my rate so much higher than the average (I'm located in Colombia).

Re:Ask HN: On companies hiring remote developers and why don't you do it? on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:35PM (#5247563)
Have you been through one of this situations?

I agree with this, as a freelancer/remote worker, one of your key assets is communication.

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