Wishly - Automated Greetings & Milestone Reminders
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Wishly - Automated Greetings & Milestone Reminders

📌 Overview

Wishly is an automated greeting and milestone reminder platform. You add birthdays, anniversaries and other dates once, and Wishly sends the wish on time — from your own accounts (WhatsApp, personal email, Telegram, Discord or Slack) rather than a generic bot number. This model is called Bring Your Own Channel (BYOC).

👉 Try it live: wishly.cc.cd

🚀 Features

📱 Bring Your Own Channel

  • WhatsApp — multi-device pairing with a live QR code streamed over WebSockets (Baileys); wishes arrive as image cards with the greeting as caption.
  • Telegram — an interactive bot (/today, /upcoming, /test) plus a personal-account session (MTProto) for messaging usernames or phone numbers directly.
  • Email — your own Gmail, Outlook 365 or custom SMTP, with HTML greeting cards.
  • Discord and Slack — rich embeds and Block Kit messages via webhooks.

💌 Greeting Cards

  • Interactive web cards — recipients open an animated wax-sealed envelope, leave reactions, and read a guestbook.
  • Group co-signing — share a signing link before the day so friends and colleagues can add notes and stickers, with live notifications as signatures arrive.
  • Server-rendered link previews so cards look right when shared on WhatsApp, Slack and iMessage.

🕒 Scheduling

  • A background worker checks milestones every minute against each event’s local timezone.
  • Midnight or morning delivery, and advance reminders 1, 3 or 7 days ahead.
  • Per-year idempotency (eventId + triggerYear) so a wish is never sent twice.
  • Trigger now to test delivery immediately.

🪄 Extras

  • AI wish generator with tones (heartfelt, funny, poetic, professional, short) and template variables like {name} and {years} (e.g. “25th Anniversary”).
  • AI gift suggestions by occasion, relationship and budget.
  • Calendar sync — a live .ics subscription feed for Google, Apple and Outlook calendars, plus bulk import from .ics files.

🔒 Security

  • SMTP passwords, API keys and session strings are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM.
  • Disconnecting a channel purges its credentials from both the database and the file system.
  • JWT authentication with bcrypt password hashing, and rate limiting on auth, OTP, AI, dispatch and public endpoints.

🛠️ Tech Stack

  • Frontend: React 18, Vite, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Framer Motion, Socket.IO client
  • Backend: Node.js, Express, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Socket.IO, node-cron, Zod
  • Channels: Baileys (WhatsApp), GramJS (Telegram MTProto), Nodemailer, Discord/Slack webhooks
  • Media: sharp and ffmpeg for card images and video
  • Deployment: Frontend on Vercel · Docker Compose for the full stack