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by perks_12 1 day ago
I just implemented a WhatsApp bot for a small business. Implementation was fairly easy. What was horrible was navigating the mess of Meta Business Manager with personal and business entity accounts, unlinking the app to free the phone number, getting that reverified, yada yada yada. Just give people an easy API setup and start seeing great things happen.
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wholeheartedly agree. even as a techie with decades of experience, the meta business world is a complete clusterfuck its unbelievable bad. yes they bought and assimilated things like insta or whatsapp, but with their sheer amounts of engineers plus AI coding now even its not acceptable they cannot even get the basic UX of their money printing machine merged into one coherent thing? The god damn creators of react give us us this messed up slow garbage of a maze of config pages weakly connected with complete design breaks and menus I have to navigate with codex/claude to finally find the thing I need? I man accidential complexity can happen, but what are the thousands of engineers and trillions of tokens used for? its just sad