April 17, 2026
Happy Friday Photon Community,
This week at Photon: we launched the native iMessage community node for n8n, we're hosting two hackathons this week, one with Beta Fund as workshop leads, judges, and sponsors, and one sponsoring HackPrinceton 2026 with the Agents in iMessage track.
Feature Updates
Photon + n8n: Native iMessage Inside Your Workflows
The new n8n-nodes-imessage community node brings iMessage directly into your n8n workflows.
Send, receive, and search iMessages directly in n8n
Trigger workflows on incoming messages
Deploy AI agents that respond in real conversations
Upcoming Events
Sponsoring HackPrinceton 2026 Spring
We're sponsoring HackPrinceton 2026 with the Photon Track: Agents in iMessage. For builders who see AI as something that lives with us, not just works for us.
Present in conversations, attuned to context, trusted to act with taste.
Photon Track: Agents in iMessage
Upcoming Events
MultiModel Hackathon: April 18
This Saturday we will be in the South Bay for a full day of building, demos, and judging. More than $30K in prizes up for grabs.
Partners: Beta Fund, Trae AI, MiroMind AI, Llama Ventures
Come build next-level interfaces with us
Winners of "Best Photon Interfaces" get 1 month of Photon line
We're Hiring
Objective-C Engineer
We're a small team doing big things:
and we need someone who can go deep on the Mac stack.
Strong background in Objective-C
Deep experience building for macOS
Skilled in reverse engineering
Ships clean, high-quality code only
Uses AI agents to 10x their productivity
DevOps Engineer
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who loves working close to the metal: operating systems, networks, power, and the physical reality of data centers.
Own the tooling, automation, and infrastructure powering our products
Manage and optimize fleets of macOS machines
Operate and evolve our AWS infrastructure with an emphasis on security and reliability
Design and debug network topologies and services
Contribute to the vision of building and running our own data center from zero View the Job Listing
That's all for this week.
We believe agents should reach everyone:
and we're building every day to make it happen.
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Photon is building the Twilio for AI agents - enabling agents to live inside existing messaging surfaces like iMessage, phone calls, email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Slack, and more. Our open-source kits have driven 200k+ impressions and adoption from thousands of developers.
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