how do you have Clawdbot WhatsApp you? i set mine up with my own WhatsApp account, and the responses come back as myself so i haven't been able to get notifications
I have an old iPhone with a broken screen that I threw an $8/month eSIM onto so that it has its own phone number, that I just keep plugged in with the screen off, on Wifi, in a drawer. It hosts a number of things for me, most importantly bridges for WhatsApp and iMessage. So I can actually give things like Clawdbot their own phone number, their own AppleID, etc. Then I just add them as a contact on my real phone, and voila.
I heard it costs $15 for just a few minutes of usage though
The phone plan or Clawdbot?
Clawdbot
It can be absurdly expensive, yes :( It's definitely not in an off-the-shelf plug-and-play state yet. But with the right context/session management (and using a Claude Max subscription token instead of an API key), it can be managed.
For iMessage I don’t think you actually need a second phone number, you can just make a second iCloud account with the same phone number.
How does it bridge iMessage? I see clawdbot is using imsg rpc on a Mac but really curious about running this stuff on an old iPhone for access to iCloud things. I have a few of them laying around so I could get started way faster.