Deploy and Host hermes on Railway

Hermes is a WhatsApp-native personal AI assistant powered by Gemini. It connects to your WhatsApp as a linked device and lets you search across all your group chats, get daily sitreps, schedule recurring summaries, and run slash commands like /sotu, /pending, and /recap — all from within WhatsApp.

About Hosting hermes

Hermes runs as a single container with a Go WhatsApp bridge and a Python backend. On deployment, a browser-based wizard walks you through three setup steps: enter a Gemini API key, scan a QR code to link your WhatsApp account, and send a pairing code in any chat to designate it as your assistant chat. The whole process takes under 5 minutes. A persistent volume at /data preserves your WhatsApp session and message history across redeploys.

Common Use Cases

Daily cross-group sitrep — ask "what needs my attention" and Hermes scans all your groups for action items, open decisions, and blockers
Scheduled deep-dive summaries — set recurring searches like "summarize product feedback daily at 9am" across every group you're in
On-demand group intelligence — use /ask launch blockers or /sotu in any group to get structured summaries of recent activity

Dependencies for hermes Hosting

A Google Gemini API key (free tier available at aistudio.google.com)
A WhatsApp account to link as a companion device

Deployment Dependencies

Railway auto-detects the Dockerfile in the repository — no build configuration needed
Persistent volume at /data for WhatsApp session storage (pre-configured in this template)
Port 8080 exposed for the setup wizard and health checks

Why Deploy hermes on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

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