I ve been seeing a lot about Hello Aria lately, and it genuinely looks like something worth trying. The idea of having one AI assistant that can help with everyday tasks, generate ideas, and give quick answers without needing to switch between multiple apps sounds really convenient. I m especially interested in how smoothly it works across iOS, web, and WhatsApp, since that would make it easy to use anytime. If it actually delivers on being fast, intuitive, and helpful, I can see it becoming a go-to tool for staying productive and organized.
Hello Aria
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Tharun, founder of HelloAria.
I studied robotics at NYU — spent years building systems that automate complex tasks. Ironically, my own life was a mess. Todoist for tasks, Apple Reminders for quick stuff, Google Calendar for meetings, Notion for notes — and I was STILL forgetting things. Five apps open. Nothing in sync. I'd set a reminder in one app and miss it because I was living in another.
One night I thought — I spend all day on WhatsApp anyway. What if I could just text someone and say "remind me to call mom on Sunday" and it just... happened?
That's how HelloAria started. Built it for myself first. Then friends wanted it. Then strangers started asking for it.
🛠 What it does: Message Aria on WhatsApp, Telegram, or email — she creates reminders, to-dos, calendar events, meeting notes, and follow-ups. Everything syncs to your iOS app and web dashboard. Too busy to type? Send a voice note — Aria turns it into tasks and action items automatically.
⚡ What makes it different:
No new app to learn — works inside apps you already use daily
AI that understands context: "remind me to call mom every Sunday at 5pm" — done
Voice notes → instant to-dos, notes, and reminders
Meeting recording with AI-generated summaries and action items
Google Calendar, Drive, Meet, Outlook, OneDrive integrations
🎯 Who it's for:
Busy professionals drowning in app-switching
Freelancers managing clients, invoices, and deadlines
Founders and solopreneurs wearing 10 hats at once
Teams that want shared reminders and meeting minutes
Students juggling assignments, deadlines, and group projects
Parents coordinating family schedules, school events, and errands
🎁 3 Months Free for the PH community:
📱 iOS users → Claim here
💬 WhatsApp & Dashboard users → Email us at info@realityrift.co with subject "Product Hunt" and we'll activate it for you.
I'd genuinely love your feedback — what productivity problems would you want Aria to solve for you?
— Tharun
@sai_tharun_kakirala the 'MOM Mode' (meeting minutes) from voice notes sounds incredible for small teams. we spend more time writing summaries than we do in the actual meetings sometimes. rooting for you guys.
Hello Aria
@vikramp7470
Ha, "more time writing summaries than in the actual meeting" — that's exactly the pain that drove us to build MOM Mode 😅
You literally just drop the voice note (or record the meeting live) and Aria gives you:
→ Clean summary
→ Action items tagged to people
→ Follow-up reminders auto-scheduled
No more "wait, who said they'd handle the deck?" the next morning.
Would genuinely love for you to try it on your next team call and tell me what's missing — small-team workflows are exactly who it's built for, so your feedback would be gold.
Thanks for the kind words, means a lot on launch day 🙏
PageAI
@sai_tharun_kakirala this is super smooth. Well done. gl with the launch 🫡
Hello Aria
@dan_mindru
Thanks Dan 🫡🙏,
"Smooth" is the highest compliment we could get — spent way too many late nights sanding down the rough edges to make it feel effortless. If you ever want to put Aria through her paces, I'll hook you up with 3 months on the house — would genuinely love your honest take 🚀
PicWish
great! @sai_tharun_kakirala are you routing whatsapp messages through a llm api or running a custom model?
Hello Aria
@mohsinproduct
Great question 🙏
Hybrid — we route through frontier LLM APIs (Gemini is our primary, with fallbacks to other models for specific tasks) but the orchestration layer is custom. Single-model setups fall apart fast at our scale because:
→ Different tasks need different models (parsing "call mom Sunday 5pm" vs summarizing a 40-min meeting transcript are very different cost/latency profiles)
→ Context routing across WhatsApp, Telegram, iOS, email needs memory that sits outside the model
→ Tool-use for calendar/drive/meet integrations runs through our own agent layer, not the model directly
Fine-tuning a custom model was tempting early on, but the frontier models moved faster than we could realistically train. We got farther by building better orchestration around them.
Happy to go deeper if you're curious about any specific part 🚀
RiteKit Company Logo API
Congrats on the launch! Love the idea of consolidating productivity into messaging apps where people already spend time. Quick question - how does Aria handle context across different chat platforms? For example, if someone starts a task in WhatsApp and needs to reference it in Telegram later, does it seamlessly sync, or do users need to manage that manually?
Hello Aria
@osakasaul
Thanks 🙏 and this is genuinely one of the hardest problems we've solved — love that you zeroed in on it.
Short answer: fully seamless, zero manual management.
How it works under the hood: the channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, iOS, email) are just interfaces. Aria's "brain" sits above all of them — a single user context with unified memory, task state, and history. You're not talking to "WhatsApp Aria" or "Telegram Aria," you're talking to Aria, who happens to be reachable through those channels.
So the flow you described works exactly as you'd hope:
→ Create a task on WhatsApp → "remind me to send Q3 report Friday"
→ Later on Telegram → "what did I need to send Friday?" → Aria recalls it instantly
→ Mark it done from the iOS app → all channels reflect the update in real time
The key architectural choice was making the channels stateless and the brain stateful. Most multi-channel tools do it the other way (each channel maintains its own state, then they try to sync) and it's why those products feel fragmented. We learned that the hard way in v1.
Biggest unsolved part we're still working on: cross-channel conversation continuity — picking up a half-finished conversation mid-thread when you switch devices. Much harder than state sync.
What made you ask this specifically — are you building something adjacent?
Banyan AI Lite
Happy launch! So basically a super-chat App, which connects with various other messengers, calendar and so on and helps to manage all the conversations from one place? I guess this would work pretty well for B2B as well (outlook, Slack etc. all in one place), did you think about it?
Hello Aria
@davitausberlin
Thanks Davit 🙏
Small but important distinction — HelloAria isn't a chat hub that aggregates conversations across apps. It's an AI assistant that lives inside the messengers you already use (WhatsApp, Telegram, email), and turns what you say into structured output — tasks, reminders, calendar events, meeting notes.
So instead of "one inbox for all chats," it's "one brain that understands what you need and executes it across tools."
On B2B — 100%, it's already a big use case. Outlook is live today, along with Google Calendar, Drive, Meet, and OneDrive. What's coming next is deeper team functionality — shared reminders, meeting minutes with auto-tagged action items per person, and proactive nudges like "hey, you promised the deck to Sarah by Thursday."
Slack + Teams integrations are on the roadmap too.
What's your biggest B2B coordination pain right now? Genuinely curious — we're actively shaping that roadmap.
Good luck with Banyan AI Lite 🚀
Banyan AI Lite
@sai_tharun_kakirala got you, thanks for clarification!
Hello Aria
@davitausberlin
Anytime Davit 🙏
If you ever want to put Aria through her paces, I'll hook you up with 3 months on the house — happy to get your founder take.
best of luck with the launch !!!, also meeting minutes from voice notes is a clever wedge honestly, feels like the feature that actually sells the rest of the product. the risk long-term is platform dependency, since like whatsapp business api policies can shift overnight and kill entire workflows.
any backup plan there or is that just the cost of doing business on top of meta ?
Hello Aria
@saad_el_gueddari
Thanks 🙏 and yeah — that's exactly the conversation we had internally about 8 months in.
HelloAria actually started as WhatsApp-first AI. It was getting traction, users loved it, but every time Meta shifted a Business API policy I was losing sleep. One policy change away from an entire user base being locked out wasn't a risk we were willing to ride long-term.
So we rebuilt the architecture to be channel-agnostic. Today Aria lives on:
→ WhatsApp
→ Telegram
→ iOS app (our own platform, fully controlled)
→ Email (SMTP — nobody can take this away)
→ Web dashboard
Same AI brain, same user context, same data — users pick the channel that fits their life. If Meta changes something tomorrow, our WhatsApp users migrate to Telegram or the iOS app in one tap and keep all their tasks, reminders, and history.
It cost us 3 months of engineering we didn't really have, but channel dependency is one risk I don't want to carry into a Series A conversation.
Good eye on this — most people don't spot it until it's already a problem 🫡
The voice note → tasks workflow is the one I keep thinking about. What's the latency like? If I'm rattling off 10 things from a parking lot voice memo, how long before they show up as structured tasks? And does Aria make judgment calls about what's a task vs. a reminder vs. a note, or does it ask you to clarify?
Hello Aria
@sounak_bhattacharya
Both great questions — and honestly the two that define whether voice-to-task actually works in the wild vs just demos well.
On latency:
A 30-second voice note with 10 items shows up as structured tasks in under 30 seconds after you hit send. The parking-lot scenario is genuinely the use case — fast capture, read it back later when you're at your desk.
On judgment calls:
Aria classifies without asking, 90% of the time. A few heuristics:
→ Explicit time = reminder ("remind me at 5pm")
→ Explicit date / no time = task ("buy milk tomorrow")
→ No time anchor + declarative statement = note ("thinking about restructuring the pricing page")
→ Person + action = follow-up ("tell Priya about the Q3 thing")
The ~10% edge cases — things like "think about the new hire" could be task OR note — she picks the most likely bucket and lets you override in one tap from the iOS app. We intentionally don't ask clarifying questions mid-voice-note because every back-and-forth kills the "parking lot speed" magic.
The worst user experience isn't wrong classification — it's interrupting the flow to ask. People forgive "you put this in notes instead of tasks" way more than "you made me answer 3 questions after a 30-sec voice memo."
What's driving the question — personally a voice-note heavy user, or thinking from a product angle?
This looks great! I would actually love to be able to manage things like this direct from WhatsApp, In the UK so many social events are organised on it so even just being able to forward messages from other WhatsApp chats and asking it to set calendar / reminder events would be really useful.
Also I’m pretty forgetful so I assume I can ask it about what I’ve done recently and what I have coming up and it will know and be able to reply?
Hello Aria
@tommy_clarke
Oh the UK WhatsApp angle is SO real — genuinely one of our top user clusters. Most people's social lives in the UK happen in WhatsApp groups (pub plans, 5-a-side footie, birthday drinks, kids' school coordination) and it's mad that none of that flows into a calendar by default.
On your two questions:
1. Forwarding group messages to Aria:
Forward any WhatsApp message to Aria (or copy-paste it into your chat with her) and say "make this a calendar event" or "remind me the morning of this." Aria reads the message, pulls out the date/time/location/people, and creates the event. Works great for those "drinks Saturday 7pm at the Red Lion" messages that normally get lost in a group thread.
2. Memory + recall:
Yes — today Aria has full context of your upcoming events and reminders, so "what's on this week?" or "what do I have on Saturday?" works instantly. She can also pull from your notes when you ask — "did I note anything about the dentist's address?" kind of questions.
One small thing forgetful folks love: voice notes. If you're walking home and suddenly remember 5 things, just voice-note them to Aria — she'll structure everything into tasks/reminders without you needing to type a word.
If you try it, would genuinely love to know how it fits into a UK social-WhatsApp life — that's exactly the use case we want to nail down further 🙏
(And we've got 3 months free for the PH community — details in the maker comment pinned at the top 🚀)
Love the simplicity here! Especially the voice note. As a parent with little kids, I never have free hands to type when I remember something I need to do
Hello Aria
@julialeffler
Oh this one hits 🙏
Parents were genuinely one of the use cases that surprised us most. We built Aria thinking "busy professionals" — and then a bunch of moms and dads wrote in saying "I finally added the dentist appointment because I could voice-note it while holding the baby." That reframed the whole thing for us.
If you try it: voice-note something like "remind me Thursday at 7am to pack Emma's water bottle" — Aria will parse the day, time, and your kid's name and just handle it. No typing, no switching apps.
Would love to hear how it holds up in real kid-chaos — that's the feedback that shapes the roadmap most 🙏
Thanks for being here on launch day ❤️