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WhatsApp

WhatsApp is a freeware, cross-platform, centralized instant messaging and voice-over-IP service owned by United States tech conglomerate Meta Platforms [wikipedia].

How to create a WhatsApp group with a single participant?

As of Sept 5, 2023, there's no way to create a group chat without adding a 2nd participant (1st participant being yourself) when you create a new group.

Creating a group without adding a 2nd participant is useful because there are situations where you may want to create a new chat group in order to generate an invite link that you can then share with potential participants.

As a workaround, you can add a friend as the initial 2nd participant and then immediately remove them. Alternatively, you can add Twilio's WhatsApp Sandbox Test phone number, +1-415-523-8886, as a contact in your address book, and use it as the initial 2nd participant.

Summarize the last X messages in a group chat

Did you miss ~50 messages in a group chat and aren't interested in reading through everything, but still want to know the gist of what was discussed?

  1. Go to the group chat's options
  2. Export chat
  3. Without media
  4. Share with ChatGPT app
  5. Ask chatgpt to summarize the last 50 messages
whatsapp.1769452679.txt.gz · Last modified: by Roman Sheydvasser