March 26, 2026
Happy Thursday Photon Community,
This week at Photon: we launched the official Zapier integration. We’re hosting a hackathon this weekend as workshop presenters, judges, and sponsors of a dedicated Photon track. p.s. Daniel kicked off a campaign to buy pho for 100 founders!
Feature Updates
Official Zapier Integration Now Live
Photon now works with Zapier. A full, enterprise-grade iMessage API - alongside 7,000+ integrations and apps.
Get AI help, and turn any agent into a native messaging experience
Seamless conversations where people already live
No app switching required
Upcoming Events
GMI Cloud Hackathon – This Saturday
We’re excited to cohost a hackathon with GMI Cloud, Kimi(Moonshot), Dify, HydraDB this Saturday. An 8-hour AI agent sprint in San Francisco.
Come join us!
Sponsoring a dedicated Photon track
Winner of the Photon track gets a full month of Photon line access
$2500 in total prizes + $20 inference credits for all builders from GMI Cloud
Community Highlights
“Pho-ton” Campaign
Daniel is buying pho for 100 founders in the Bay this year:
He picks the restaurant, no agenda, no pitch decks
Just real talk about AI agents, agentic programming, and what human/AI interaction actually looks like
Text "pho-ton" if you are interested to join.
Community Highlights
Photon Residency – Chapter II
Our Photon Residency program is still accepting candidates. Apply by April 8th.
1 week in San Francisco (May 18th–25th, 2026)
All expenses covered (flights, housing, food, everything)
Build side-by-side with the world's top talents
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
That's all for this week.
We believe agents should reach everyone:
and we're building every day to make it happen.
Want to learn more about Photon?
Reply this email or grab time with us for a quick chat.
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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