JobabAI shop assistant for Bangladeshi merchants

Answers DMs in Bangla. Takes orders. Generates bKash links. Hands off to a human when things go sideways.

Start here

Plain-English overview of the product, how the AI loop works, and the Meta rules that shape it. No coding knowledge needed.

Read the intro

Build

Get the project running on your machine in 15 minutes. Read the API guide. Understand every library on the stack.

Local setup

Ship

Connect a real Facebook / Instagram / WhatsApp page. Get past Meta's App Review. Launch with the first pilot merchants.

Channel plan

Status

What's done, what's blocking the pilot, what to build next. The honest list.

See current status

Legal

Read the policies

Architecture decisions

Short records of the big calls — pnpm monorepo, LLM provider interface, order guardrail.

Browse decisions

Quickstart paths

If you're not sure where to begin:

"What is this project?" → What is Jobab? → How it works
"I'm a developer, get me set up" → Local setup → API guide → Tech stack
"I want to connect a real Facebook Page" → Meta's rules first → Step-by-step setup
"Where's the project at right now?" → Status

The repo

jobab/
├── apps/
│   ├── backend/    NestJS API + agent worker
│   ├── web/        Next.js merchant dashboard
│   ├── mobile/     Expo app (early stage)
│   └── docs/       This site (VitePress)
├── packages/
│   └── shared/     Zod schemas — single source of truth for API types
└── docs/           Markdown source for this site (also renders on GitHub)

Built by the Jobab team for Bangladeshi merchants who run shops out of their DMs. Jobab (জবাব) means "answer" or "reply" in Bangla.