Chert
Build AI agents that text customers in iMessage
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Build and deploy conversational iMessage agents for customer service, inbound lead capture, and more. Simply configure the system prompt and tone, and you can create your own conversational iMessage agent for inbound handling, outbound follow-up, or whatever workflow you want to test. You can also integrate with CRMs like HubSpot, Close, or GoHighLevel to write back conversation histories.
PH · launched May 19, 2026 · 192 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: ai chatbots and conversational agents · 372 launches, 28 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Messaging
- API
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
No Apple does not offer a public iMessage API for commercial texting; building reliable automated iMessage infrastructure requires reverse-engineering Apple's proprietary push/APNs protocols or managing complex macOS farm virtualization that constantly evades anti-abuse bot detection.
What it would actually take: A production version requires a fleet of virtualized macOS instances or reverse-engineered APNs/Apple ID authentication bridges (similar to Beeper/BlueBubbles), coupled with automated identity rotation, device fingerprinting, and proxy management to avoid instant Apple ID bans. In addition to standard CRM webhooks and LLM response orchestration, the system needs deep low-level networking and cryptographic protocol engineering to maintain active sessions across Apple's undocumented push notification services.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1119 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1059 of 1120 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 202 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Voice AI Agent · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Text Agent Store · ph · 2026-09-17 · 269 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Chert – iMessage infrastructure for trusted communication at scale · yc · 2026-05-07 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- AMA2, messenger built for AI agent · hn · 2026-06-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- AskGPT · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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