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.
I ve tried a bunch of productivity apps before. Tasks in one place, notes in another, reminders somewhere else and somehow I still missed things.
What surprised me about Hello Aria is how natural it feels.
I don t open an app anymore to manage tasks.
I just send a message like I normally would:
Remind me to follow up tomorrow
Summarize this meeting
Note this idea down
I m curious how people here manage reminders, to-dos, and notes today.
Do you rely on a single productivity app, or do you end up juggling multiple tools like reminders, calendars, and task managers?
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.
@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 🚀
great! @sai_tharun_kakirala are you routing whatsapp messages through a llm api or running a custom model?
@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 🚀
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?
@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 🚀
@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 ?
@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:
→ 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?
@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?
@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
@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 ❤️
This feels like a nice shift toward reducing tool overload. Having reminders, notes, and calendar all in one conversational layer makes a lot of sense. How do you handle keeping everything organized as usage scales?
@uxpinjack
Thanks 🙏 and yeah, "tool overload" is exactly the framing we keep coming back to — people don't need another app, they need fewer.
On scale: the short answer is Aria treats memory like a human assistant would, not like a database. Three layers working together:
→ Short-term context — what you're talking about right now (this week's meetings, today's to-dos)
→ Mid-term memory — recurring patterns Aria picks up (your Monday 9am standup, the grocery list you rebuild every Sunday, your kid's swim class)
→ Long-term knowledge — the stable stuff (your family's names, your work projects, recurring contacts)
Retrieval is semantic, not chronological — so when you say "remind me about that thing Sarah mentioned," Aria searches intent, not keywords.
The honest challenge at scale isn't storage, it's forgetting gracefully — knowing when an old reminder is no longer relevant vs when to surface it again. Still actively tuning that one.
Great question — what kind of usage were you imagining when you asked? Teams, personal, something else?
Hello Aria
This means a lot 🙏 genuinely.
"Workflow upgrade, not a tool" is honestly the line we've been trying to articulate internally for months — and you nailed it in one sentence. That distinction is the whole reason we built Aria: tools demand attention, workflows just run.
The fact that it's resonating this way on day one of the launch tells us we're pointing in the right direction. Thank you for taking the time to share this — reviews like yours are what gets product pages read by future users, and we don't take that lightly.
If there's anything you wish Aria did that she doesn't yet, I'm genuinely all ears — that's the feedback that shapes the roadmap 🚀