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Out of curiosity couldn't one recreate Twilio just by running an extended version of this from a Macbook? You could read all inbound messages from the Messages app and reply as well. You could even hook it up to a local LLM and run a small support agent. Is there ANY reason a small business owner couldn't do this and avoid paying SaaS fees?
The use of “computer” throughout got me excited. Requires a Mac, yes?
Out of curiosity couldn't one recreate Twilio just by running an extended version of this from a Macbook? You could read all inbound messages from the Messages app and reply as well. You could even hook it up to a local LLM and run a small support agent. Is there ANY reason a small business owner couldn't do this and avoid paying SaaS fees?
It only works for iMessage texts, unfortunately.
Out of curiosity couldn't one recreate Twilio just by running an extended version of this from a Macbook? You could read all inbound messages from the Messages app and reply as well. You could even hook it up to a local LLM and run a small support agent. Is there ANY reason a small business owner couldn't do this and avoid paying SaaS fees?
It only works for iMessage texts, unfortunately.
This could be insanely useful for me. Thank you! It means I could have a private monitoring approach that send myself a message on events I want notifications on? I didn’t even know iMessage allowed sending a self message.
Out of curiosity couldn't one recreate Twilio just by running an extended version of this from a Macbook? You could read all inbound messages from the Messages app and reply as well. You could even hook it up to a local LLM and run a small support agent. Is there ANY reason a small business owner couldn't do this and avoid paying SaaS fees?
Out of curiosity couldn't one recreate Twilio just by running an extended version of this from a Macbook? You could read all inbound messages from the Messages app and reply as well. You could even hook it up to a local LLM and run a small support agent. Is there ANY reason a small business owner couldn't do this and avoid paying SaaS fees?
Unfortunately no, Apple has usage limits on iMessage / SMS relaying. Many people hack around this, SendBlue.co being the only long running service, but it's full of the graveyard of folks trying to do this.
If an app running on my machine has subclassed the Messages app and is reading strings and sending hit strokes to the (Send) button on my behalf, how can Apple possibly rate limit this?