Happy Thursday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: we launched Built with Photon with up to $50,000 in cash, shipped in-dashboard support, wrapped a matcha hackathon where 80% of projects shipped on iMessage, and our blog got featured by The Prime Time to 1.1M subscribers.

Feature Updates

In-Dashboard Support

We believe great DX starts with great support. Starting today, you can ask questions directly inside the Photon dashboard and get an immediate response.

• Ask anything while you're building, right where you're building

• Immediate responses, no waiting on email threads

Build your first iMessage Agent

Community Highlights

Built with Photon

Ship AI agents on iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and more at any hackathon. Earn up to $50,000 in cash for each agent you build.

• Up to $50,000 cash and $500,000 in Photon credits per project

• Prize matching: Photon doubles your winnings at hackathons we didn't even sponsor

• Side projects count, not just hackathon submissions

Read the Announcement

Start Building

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Matcha & Code Hackathon Wrap

Last Saturday we hosted a special hackathon. Builders, matcha, and agents going live on iMessage with video and memory.

• 80% of projects used the Photon track and shipped on iMessage

• Shout out to partners GMI Cloud, Pixversal, HydraDB

See the Details on X

Community Highlights

Team Built naval.chat using iMessage Kit

Julie built naval.chat and got 100+ users in one day. The post got liked by Naval himself. You can now text Naval on iMessage to get life advice.

• Sends 4 personalized insights every day on your schedule

• All open-source, built on Spectrum with Photon

See the Details

Community Highlights

Featured by The Prime Time (1.1M followers)

Our blog about the 49-day ticking time bomb in macOS TCP networking got picked up by The Prime Time (1.1M subscribers) and went viral.

• Hit 221,459 views in one day. Real tech geek energy.

Watch the Video

See Details

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

View the Job Listing

DevOps Engineer

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who loves working close to the metal: operating systems, networks, power, and the physical reality of data centers.

• Own the tooling, automation, and infrastructure powering our products

• Manage and optimize fleets of macOS machines

• Operate and evolve our AWS infrastructure with an emphasis on security and reliability

• Design and debug network topologies and services

• Contribute to the vision of building and running our own data center from zero View the Job Listing

View the Job Listing

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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