October 9, 2026

Happy Friday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: We announced our recent feature, 1st A2A for iMessage Group chats, along with announcing our $3000 Make Your own Muse with Photon contest, Jester's launch, and customer story releases featuring Ditto, Slashy, and Flip!

Announcements

Photon Launch: A2A in iMessage Group Chats

Introducing A2A in iMessage group chats. Your agent can now discover other agents, find their phone numbers, and bring them into a group chat with you.

• Your agent can do things for you by talking to other agents. Ask it to book a restaurant, and it talks directly to the restaurant’s agent to get it done, right in iMessage.

• Daniel’s announcement has passed 537K views on X, with 600+ likes

• Open agent access for every merchant and platform. Your iMessage agents now have a phone book. Try it now at photon.codes/beta.

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Announcements

Photon Contest: Make Your Own Muse on iMessage

We’re giving away $3,000 to whoever makes the best Muse of their own: build a personal agent that lives in iMessage, powered by Photon.

• Three $1,000 prizes: the Most Time-Saving Muse, the Most Unhinged Muse, and the Most Inspiring Muse.

• How to enter: build your agent on Photon, post a demo and your message history on X tagging @PhotonHQ, then submit the Typeform.

• Deadline: October 19. Let’s see your Photon agent become our next muse! Enter here

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Build On Photon

Jester Launch: Supported by Photon

Memelord launched Jester, a free meme dealer that lives in iMessage and runs on Photon’s infrastructure. The launch passed 1M views on X in just a few days.

• Jester is the newest member of the group chat. Add it to your chat to make memes and AI videos, or roast your friends (and your mom) on demand.

• Ask for the template, get the meme. Trending memes arrive right in iMessage, with no app to download.

• Free to try: text Jester at memelord.com/imessage.

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Customer Story

Ditto: AI-Powered Matchmaking with Photon

Customer story: Ditto is changing the interface of modern dating. No app, no swiping, just a text, all powered by Photon.

• 205,000+ college students have used Ditto to go on real dates, entirely over iMessage.

• How it works: text Ditto who you are, get one match every Wednesday at 7pm, and show up to a date that’s already planned: time, place, and person.

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Customer Story

Slashy: Email Agents to iMessage with Photon

Customer story: Your inbox should text you. Slashy, one of the fastest growing premium email clients, reaches users on iMessage with an email agent powered by Photon.

• Used by former F500 CEOs, decacorns, and T1 VCs. Slashy’s iMessage integration is one of its killer features, letting the agent be proactive and reach users where they are.

• How it works: Slashy drafts replies in your voice, preps you before meetings, and nudges you when threads go quiet.

• All approved with a text. No need to open your inbox.

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Customer Story

Fliptext: Your Personal Financial Assistant with Photon

Customer story: Flip is changing the interface of personal finance. Your financial assistant now lives in your texts, powered by Photon.

• Flip runs entirely on iMessage. It moves money, pays people back, monitors stocks, cancels forgotten subscriptions, and gives personal financial advice.

• $57M in connected volume and 2-3x the retention of traditional finance apps.

• Backed by a16z speedrun, Pear VC, and more.

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Community Highlights

College Hackathons: Photon Sponsoring

Last weekend, Photon sponsored 2 Hackathons: MHacks at the University of Michigan, and Big Red Hacks at Cornell University.

• Over 65+ projects using Photon in one weekend alone!

• Photon is sponsoring HackNC at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and HackLanta in Atlanta, Georgia from 10/9-10/11

• Cool integrations across agent messaging using Photon's API

That's all for this week.

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