Running a WhatsApp AI bot locally sounds simple: WhatsApp → Node.js → Ollama → done. In practice, keeping it running reliably 24/7 on a Windows PC taught me a few things the hard way. Here are 5 problems I ran into — and how I fixed them. 1. The bot stopped when the terminal closed During development, running node index.js worked perfectly. But the moment the terminal was closed, the bot disappeared with it. The fix Use a process manager such as PM2:...