We were spending hours removing spam bots from our WhatsApp communities, so I built this
We manage a community with 50k+ members across multiple WhatsApp groups.
One recurring problem was that public invite links eventually got discovered by bots. Our moderators spent a surprising amount of time removing spam messages and banning fake accounts.
Instead of constantly generating new invite links, I built a small tool that sits in front of the invite link. (shieldmylinks.com)
It adds a quick CAPTCHA page before redirecting users to the real WhatsApp (or Discord/Telegram/etc.) invitation.
The idea isn’t to stop determined attackers, but to filter out automated bots that continuously crawl public invite links.
We’ve been using it ourselves, and it has made moderation much easier.
I’m curious:
- How do you currently protect your community invite links?
- Have you found better solutions?
- What would you want from a tool like this?
Happy to hear any criticism or feature requests.