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Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

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Re: Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

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Post by bfeynman »

simonw wrote: post #16

I couldn't figure out where to go from the homepage. Eventually I spotted the grey-on-black GitHub link but that took me to an organization page, not a repository. Here's the repo for anyone else who didn't find it: https://github.com/photon-hq/flux Key detail from the README to help understand what's going on: Now text +16286298650 from your phone to interact with your agent! So photon are operating a currently free…

I feel like Apple makes this very hard and against their ToS right or in a gray area, aka shut it down at any moment. There are businesses that solely try to manage provisioning of verified apple accounts and having worked with a bunch of them reliability is pretty hard.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

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Post by petcat »

hmokiguess wrote: post #22

This is the path forward, we need more protocols and systems to help integrate the future rather than more apps! Excited to try it out.

> protocols and systems to help integrate the future rather than more apps

iMessage is kind of the opposite from what this is implying though, right? It is by definition an app (and extremely closed one at that).

I would think that regular SMS or even just email would be more inline with "protocols and systems".

(I have dabbled with a similar thing for myself using my twilio phone number over regular SMS)

Re: Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

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Post by skeledrew »

I made an interface to a Perplexica instance over Telegram (which I use constantly through the day) a few months ago, but actually haven't used it much as honestly the quality just isn't as good as Perplexity. It does seem the logical next step is to switch to something with more raw agent-like access.

Re: Show HN: I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage

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Post by hmokiguess »

petcat wrote: post #23
hmokiguess wrote: post #22

This is the path forward, we need more protocols and systems to help integrate the future rather than more apps! Excited to try it out.

> protocols and systems to help integrate the future rather than more apps iMessage is kind of the opposite from what this is implying though, right? It is by definition an app (and extremely closed one at that). I would think that regular SMS or even just email would be more inline with "protocols and systems". (I have dabbled with a similar thing for myself using my twilio phone number over regular SMS)

I agree with you, iMessage ubiquity obfuscates the fact that it is also a client app and we would be much better off with an open protocol behind it. Would that then be RCS instead?
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