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title: "June 20, 2026"
date: "2026-06-20"
url: "https://photon.codes/weekly-update/june-20-2026"
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# Weekly update: 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

![](https://pofmg3o8q2h4w0ma.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/cms/b3aRTjbPwJ1NXF6G3q32Tpb9B6g.webp)

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

[View on X](https://x.com/daniel_tian1/status/2067327329161064688)

### 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."

[See the post on X](https://x.com/photon_hq/status/2066731646209151442?s=20)

### 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

[Details on X](https://x.com/0xJuliechen/status/2066597814759764034?s=20)

### 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

[RSVP on Luma](https://luma.com/sr3ay38v)

That's all for this week.

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and we're building every day to make it happen.

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