August 28, 2026

Happy Friday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: Photon's Convex component is live, and Photon builders shipped: Orchid's Keiki agent, Coinbase trading agent, group chat betting, one-channel agent MCPs, and more, along with our upcoming NYC founders dinner.

Feature Updates

Convex Backend & Photon: Backend Messaging

Photon is now featured on Convex Components, so any Convex app/backend can send and receive iMessage, RCS, & SMS natively.

• Verified webhook ingestion, paced gRPC outbox, at least once delivery

• 'npm install @spectrum-ts/convex' and your backend has a phone number

• Faster messaging windows, shorter messages, and your database is connected to your messaging line

Watch Demo

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Orchid x Photon Keiki Customer Agent

Orchid launched Keiki, the fastest way to ship customer-facing AI agents on existing channels, which is running on Photon.

• Live on Slack, email, iMessage, Telegram, and Whatsapp

• Already handling over 1 million messages per month

• No new app for customers to download, the agent meet them in a pre-existing thread (phone / messaging lines)

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Browseruse x Photon

You can now text a browser agent! Browser Use shiped Browser Use iMessage on Photon.

• Everything the agent does on the web comes back as a message instead of a browser tab.

• Trips, groceries, appointments, discounts handled from the messaging thread!

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Coinbase x Photon Stock Trading Agent

Ash wired an eve agent to Coinbase and gave it a phone number, allowing his portfolio to be live in a text thread.

• The agent watches Jim Cramer's posts through the X API and texts based on every bull or bear call

• He can buy or sell right in iMessage, no dashboard, no app switching

• Photon supports the messaging line, giving the agent in-thread purchasing power and communication

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Community Highlights

Gambling for iMessage Group Chats

Ibrahim S. built betting into iMessage groupchats, so the agent is now a participant in the thread instead of a direct message line.

• Group chat as the interface, with all users seeing the same states and acts in one place

• No app, no link out, the whole loop happens where the group talks

• Multiplayer agent demo using Photon & group chat features

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Community Highlights

Capability Plane for Personal Agents

Micky from Convex shipped a single MCP that hands your personal agent a full set of capabilities, with Photon as the messaging layer.

• One install gives an agent computer use, a sandbox, card capabilities, email, connectors, and iMessage

• Photon supports the Messaging line, so the agent can reach you in the threads you regularly check

• 200k+ views on X

Watch Demo

Community Highlights

Vercel Eve Dev Day: Photon Channel Feature

On Thursday, Vercel's team hosted their first Eve Developer Meetup event, demoing the new Eve Agent in a workshop. Photon was featured as one of the two channel connections demoed!

• A dev from the Vercel team spoke about using Photon as the provider for his own Personal Trainer agent

• Onboarded several developers throughout the night, along with collaborating with the Eve Demo team

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Upcoming Events

Photon in NYC: Consumer Dinner

We are bringing the founders dinner to New York, with Rho, on September 3rd.

• 12 consumer founders, one table, no panel and no pitch

• Co-hosted with Rho, the all-in-one banking and financial software platform for startups, based in NYC

RSVP Link

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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