Pokobot
Your memory, on WhatsApp.
AI & Machine Learning·Productivity
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What is Pokobot?
Pokobot is a reminder bot on WhatsApp. You text it what you need to remember,
and it messages you back at the right time. No app, no signup — Its already in your whatsapp.
What it can do:
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Understands plain English — "Tax filing on the 20th", "call the client Friday at 4"
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Set recurring reminders daily, weekly, monthly.
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Set reminders for someone else, like a parent's medication
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Syncs to Google Calendar if you want it there too
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Schedule Google meet with participants right from your whatsapp
Works with every timezone, doesn't matter where you live.
Try it 14 days completely free.
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that added a ton of overhead it meant that we could only be in the US we have to keep an unchangeable copy of every single interaction for like seven years we're not doing that anymore there's no advice component we can rip out half the code
Every "and we also do X" silently shrinks the addressable market
Bolting a regulated financial-advisor layer onto v1 forced US-only rollout, locked the tech stack to seven-year audit trails, and ballooned overhead. The revival ripped that surface out — half the code went with it. Every 'and we also do X' tacked on at launch silently shrinks the market and slows the iteration loop. Cut the regulated piece, ship the simple version, see if anyone cares.
It has to be a monopoly given how much money has been pumped in it right, otherwise it's not worth the return on investment, and in our case we see that very differently... we don't have a need for usury.
Bootstrapped economics let you survive happily in saturated categories
Because Genius Scan never raised, they aren't forced into a monopoly endgame against Adobe or Apple's built-in scanner. Apple shipping native scanning never measurably hurt growth. Bootstrapped unit economics let you survive happily in a saturated category that would bankrupt a VC-backed competitor — competition stops being existential.
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