August 21, 2026

Happy Friday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: Photon is SOC 2 & HIPAA Compliant, the Moonlight Hackathon co-hosted by Photon, Deepmind, Exa, our Michelin founder dinner, along with a new Deepseek iMessage plug-in and a community-built Discord agent.

Feature Updates

Photon is SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA Compliant

Audited security for agents handling real user data (SOC 2 Type II + HIPAA), now standard across the Photon Spectrum API.

• HIPAA-compliant: your agents can handle healthcare info and text patients

• SOC 2 audited over months, secure messaging infrastructure

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Feature Updates

Deepseek Harness Plug-In with Photon

Native iMessage for the DeepSeek Harness, powered by the Photon Spectrum API.

• Your dsh gets its own number: text it from anywhere.

• One command: dsh plugin --profile web add dsh-imessage

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Community Highlights

Discord Bot on iMessage

Ibrahim S. made a discord bot, but for iMessage: slash commands for any group chat, built on Photon.

• No app, no invite link! Adding a number to a GC and texting!

• Can save any reply as a sticker, edit photos in thread, and ping the chat with reminders

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Community Highlights

Moonlight Hackathon Night

One night, one side hustle: the Moonlighting Hackathon with 400+ builders and 10+ cohosts (Google DeepMind, Exa, WorkOS, Convex, ElevenLabs), co-hosted by Photon.

• Live demo from Julie: an iMessage Pitch Challenge that onboarded 100+ devs on the spot

• Winning hack: Six Degrees, invites sent as real iMessages through Photon

• Amazing co-hosts, 60 minutes, from idea to demo!

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Community Highlights

Photon's Consumer Founder Dinner

On Tuesday, Photon brought together some of the highest-signal Consumer Founders to chat over a Michelin Dinner.

• Conversations about the future of apps vs. agents, the latest YC Batch, and new product development

• A group of < 20 highly curated consumer founders

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We're Hiring

Backend Engineers (Intern + Fulltime)

Proficient in Swift, TypeScript (NodeJS, ConnectRPC, Hono), or Rust. Strong understanding of how production-level backend systems work, including OTel, Workflow Systems, Outbox, PostgreSQL, Service Mesh, and k8s.

Email Us to Apply

That's all for this week.

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