Happy Friday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: we launched the official IFTTT integration for iMessage, joined Tinyfish's $2M accelerator as a partner, wrapped the hackathon with workshops, judging, and a dedicated Photon track, and continued creatively occupying San Francisco with our ads and real demos.

Feature Updates

Official IFTTT Integration Now Live

Photon now works with IFTTT - iMessage meets 1,000+ automations and apps.

• Build triggers on incoming iMessages

• Send iMessages from any workflow

• Get AI help and turn any agent into a native messaging experience

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Try Now

Community Highlights

TinyFish Accelerator Partnership

We joined Tinyfish’s $2M Accelerator as a partner, because we want the sharpest agent builders using our iMessage infrastructure from day one.

The cohort gets:

• Generous free credits

• Direct line to our engineers If you’re building agents that belong in real conversations

• Applications are rolling

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Community Highlights

GMI Cloud Hackathon – Wrapped

We just closed out the Total Agent Recall Hackathon with 100 hackers, and our amazing cohosts: GMI Cloud, Nvidia, HydraDB, Dify, KIMI, and Sky9 Capital.

• Hands-on workshops from the Photon team

• Served as judges

• Sponsored a dedicated Photon track where builders shipped agents straight to iMessage, RCS, and SMS

Huge congrats to everyone who shipped!

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Community Highlights

Creatively Occupying SF

We’re out in San Francisco with bold ads and real live demos - builders are stopping on the street, scanning, and seeing agents actually working in iMessage.

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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

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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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