GroupWhat - Discover WhatsApp Groups
👋 Hi Indie Hackers!
Today I'm launching GroupWhat, a directory for discovering active WhatsApp group links.
The idea came from a problem I kept facing myself. Most WhatsApp group directories are filled with expired or inactive invite links because they publish links once and rarely maintain them. Finding a group that actually works often meant clicking through several broken invites.
Instead of building another directory, I focused on solving the maintenance problem.
GroupWhat automatically checks WhatsApp invite links regularly and removes ones that are no longer valid, helping users find active communities across categories like education, jobs, business, technology, crypto, gaming, and more.
Building this has been an interesting challenge because WhatsApp group links are constantly changing. A link that works today may stop working tomorrow if an admin resets it or the group reaches capacity. Keeping a directory useful requires ongoing maintenance rather than just collecting links.
I'd love your feedback on the product, ideas for improvement, or questions about how it works. Thanks for taking a look!
Congrats on the launch, Furqan. Your post is sharper than your homepage: "instead of building another directory, I solved the maintenance problem" is the whole pitch, and it beats "Discover WhatsApp Groups." Put it on the page: "Other directories are full of dead links. Every group here is checked and works."
And make the maintenance visible, because trust is the product. A "last verified" time on every group and a live "checked in the last 24h" counter is proof no scrape-once competitor can fake. Two ideas: the decay is also your business (dead listings bring users back, and owners would pay to stay verified-live), and checking joinable, not just link-alive, is where the moat gets deep, since a valid link to a full group is still a dead end. What is your recheck interval right now?
How are you earning $30,000 USD per month?
Great idea! Solving the stale-link problem is much more valuable than simply building another directory. As your platform grows, it might also be worth thinking about abuse prevention, malicious invite links, and account security so users can trust what they click. Wishing you continued success with the launch!
One thing I'd be careful about is that solving the problem you discovered can sometimes make it feel like the original problem has been fully explained.
The shift from discovery to maintenance is interesting because both can produce the same user frustration while pointing toward very different underlying causes.
That's the part I'd be most curious about.