September 25, 2026

Happy Friday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: Partnership launches with BoardyAI 2.0 and TinyFish Lead Web-Browsing, reflecting on 1 year of Photon, and sponsoring 3 Hackathons in the community within one weekend!

Announcements

Boardy 2.0 on iMessage

Boardy has been a pioneer in the agent space since Photon's founding in 2025, and Boardy 2.0 moved the whole thing into the thread: past SMS and WhatsApp, and now to iMessage platforms.

• Better memory, better intros, no app to open. Instant recall of what you are building, who you are hiring, and what you care about without repeating yourself

• The ability to adapt in real time based on your feedback, all through your native iMessage channel

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Announcements

Agent Web Browsing Messaging Lead

An agent that texts a lead has to know who that lead actually is. Using Photon for messaging leads, and TinyFish for context-aware web browsing of clients.

• TinyFish Search and Fetch resolve the person before the reply goes out, sources attached, giving crucial context on the person before the outreach starts

• Photon puts the agent in the blue bubble, with an iMessage native description popup

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Blog

As We May Text: Foundations of Photon

Photon's co-founder, Ryan, wrote the argument behind the start of Photon: the best interface for an agent already exists, and it's the one we use to talk to people.

• Folders worked because people already knew what a folder was. Agents will work because people already know how to talk to a person

• 2016's chatbots failed on capability and plumbing, not on the idea. With Photon, both have changed

• Agents end where Photon is going: your home, your car, a meeting room are all Spaces that can be reached through multi-channel integrations

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Community Highlights

Photon Sponsoring: DivHacks @ Columbia

Photon is sponsoring DivHacks, Columbia University's premier student-led annual diversity hackathon run by Women in Computer Science for the last 8 years.

• Four tracks, with Photon as an overall sponsor and track sponsor, focusing on bringing people together through native messaging channels

• September 26th & 27th

Community Highlights

Photon Sponsoring: HackWashU @ WashU

Photon is sponsoring HackWashU, Washington University in St. Louis's student-run hackathon bringing together 200+ students to build during AI Perspectives week.

• Photon is co-sponsoring HackWashU's main track, Shoot for the Moon, focusing on projects that push the boundaries of what is possible, with Photon focusing on projects working with native Agent messaging interface integrations

• September 25th-27th

Community Highlights

Hackathon - JEV Hack for Humanity

We're sponsoring this Saturday's hackathon in SF, hosted by The AI Collective and AJ Green with TypeSafe AI.

• One day, start to finish: doors at 10, build session from 11:30, demos and judging at 2:30, awards by 4

• Built for founders, engineers and technical builders prototyping agentic workflows and AI infra, focusing on JEV's new release

• Space is limited and registration needs host approval, so RSVP now if you want a seat

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That's all for this week.

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