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Show HN: WhatsApp Backup Reader – Browse exports offline, data stays local

Posted by rodrigogs on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:16PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://rodrigogs.github.io/whats-reader/

Built this after a business partnership went bad and I needed WhatsApp conversations for legal proceedings. My lawyer had me screenshotting hundreds of messages, trying to keep them in order, then having opposing counsel question if anything was tampered with. I looked at existing tools but they choke on large chats and have no way to bookmark or search efficiently - useless when you're digging...

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Show HN: WhatsApp Backup Reader – Offline Viewer

Posted by rodrigogs on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:04PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/rodrigogs/whats-reader

Built this after a business partnership went bad and I needed WhatsApp conversations for legal proceedings.My lawyer had me screenshotting hundreds of messages, trying to keep them in order, then having opposing counsel question if anything was tampered with. I looked at existing tools but they choke on large chats and have no way to bookmark or search efficiently - useless when you're digging...

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Show HN: Brain-rot Factory – Italian meme characters powered by AI (Next.js 15)

Posted by rodrigogs on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:32PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://brain-rot-factory.vercel.app/en/about

Built a platform where AI-generated Italian brain-rot characters chat with users through other AIs – creating a perfectly absurd meta-loop.What makes this interesting: 100% AI-coded project. I didn't write a single line of TypeScript – just acted as "AI whisperer" guiding Claude 3.7 and Claude 4 through architecture decisions and debugging.This project isn't supposed to be useful – it's an...

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Re:Show HN: Random Porn Website (Scrap) on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:23PM (#26965179)
https://github.com/rodrigogs/xvideos-random

It is a very early project. I want to improve it in the future.

The cool part is that it uses dontpad as a database :P

Re:Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice on Thursday January 26, 2017 @09:13PM (#13497193)
That's not of my business, I cant protect people from themselves, and even if I could, I think it's wrong to protect somebody by restricting the options. Anyway... those arguments will never make a point against sharing an open tool.
Re:Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:36PM (#13495451)
Then make it better. It's opensource ;)
Re:Show HN: Easily connect to a VPN in a country of your choice on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:57PM (#13494159)
You can choose the country by passing -c argument.

Example: easyvpn -c JP

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