June 20, 2026
Happy Friday Photon Community,
This week at Photon: we launched the world's first iMessage App API for agents and generated 1.5M views, landed in #1 on Apple Store, and watched our community build some genuinely creative things with it.
Feature Updates
iMessage App API Launch
Agents can now send full interactive apps inside iMessage: no website, no app store, just the conversation. This launch hit 1.5M views on X.
Any agentic UI lives directly in the thread: menus, mini games, forms, custom interfaces
Recipients need nothing installed: no app, no redirect, no friction
Spectrum by Photon is now #1 on App Store
Community Highlights
World Cup Agent via iMessage
Our user Thakur Kharel built a cron job using Hermes Agent that texts him a daily World Cup match overview every morning via iMessage, running from a Raspberry Pi in his SF apartment while he travels to Minnesota.
Daily briefings: match schedules, tactical breakdowns, group stage updates
Running on @photon_hq iMessage integration
"iMessage integration is a life changer."
Community Highlights
Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup
Julie presented at Postman's developer meetup in San Francisco this Thursday, alongside teams from Postman, Daytona and Opral.
A night of technical demos from builders across the agent ecosystem
Onboarded 50+ developers in one workshop
Upcoming Events
Voice Coding Mini Hackathon
Photon is co-hosting a hackathon tonight with VoiceCursor, Convex, and Respan.
A curated group of builders shipping real things with voice and AI tools
Open to anyone exploring voice as a medium for coding: whether you're building voice-first apps or just curious about keyboardless workflows
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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