Kalam: AI LinkedIn growth agent (SaaS)
Kalam finds trending news in your field, writes a LinkedIn post in your voice, designs the image or carousel, and sends it to Telegram, WhatsApp or the web dashboard for one-tap approval. Then it posts or schedules it for your best time and tracks what works.
Features
For users
- Daily drafts from trending news (12 topics: AI, .NET, web, cloud, security, fintech, startups, product, marketing, careers…), ranked by Hacker News upvotes and Google Trends
- Write from your own idea (with an optional photo), or build a 6–8 slide carousel (PDF document post)
- Visuals: key-takeaway card, flowchart, quote card, your photo; 3 brand themes
- Scheduling with personalized best times (learned from your results)
- Analytics: engagement over time, by topic, by visual; top posts
- Inspiration library: 30 hook formulas, 8 templates, live trending stories, admin-curated examples
- Telegram & WhatsApp: drafts with buttons (post, edit, change image, new draft, skip); send ideas, photos,
/carousel
- Teams & agencies: workspaces per client, multiple LinkedIn accounts, owner/editor/viewer roles, invite links
- Calendar, mobile-friendly UI, light and dark mode
For the owner (admin)
- Registration modes: free (users bring their own Gemini key), paid only, or both
- Payments: Razorpay (India, UPI) and Lemon Squeezy (international), each with an on/off switch
- Prices, billing period, plan limits, announcement banner
- User management: usage per user, plans, suspend, grant Pro, record offline payments
- Revenue and growth overview
Tech
Next.js 16 (App Router, Server Actions) · Supabase (Postgres + Auth, RLS deny-all + server-side checks) · Tailwind CSS 4 · Gemini (with fallback model) · Satori/next/og + pdf-lib for images and carousels · LinkedIn Posts/Images/Documents APIs (OAuth 2.0) · Telegram Bot API · WhatsApp Cloud API · Upstash QStash (scheduler fan-out) · Razorpay · Lemon Squeezy
Security: AES-256-GCM encrypted tokens and API keys, signed OAuth state bound to a cookie, webhook signature checks (Telegram, WhatsApp, Razorpay, Lemon Squeezy, QStash), atomic publish claim (no double posts), per-workspace role checks on every action.
Run
npm install
cp .env.example .env.local # fill in values, see SETUP.md
npm run dev
Full setup and deployment: SETUP.md.
Map
| Path | What |
|---|
src/lib/engine/ | Agent: news sources, AI writer, images, LinkedIn, drafts, scheduler, analytics |
src/lib/channels/ | Telegram + WhatsApp with one shared chat brain |
src/lib/payments.ts | Razorpay + Lemon Squeezy |
src/app/app/ | User portal |
src/app/admin/ | Admin panel |
src/app/api/ | OAuth, webhooks, jobs, media, payments |
supabase/migrations/ | Database schema |
