I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage
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- External ID
- 46484808
- Source
- HN
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- Product
- I built a tool to create AI agents that live in iMessage
- Website domain
- tryflux.ai
- Launched
- Jan. 4, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 54
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8096179183135704
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey everyone, I made this thing: https://tryflux.ai/. Here's a demo video: https://screen.studio/share/1y2EnC26Context: I've tried probably 15 different AI apps over the past year. ChatGPT, note-taking apps, productivity apps, all of it. But most of them are just clutter on my iphone.They live in some app I have to deliberately open. And I just... don't. But you know what I open 50 times a day without thinking? iMessage. So out of mild frustration with the "AI app graveyard" on my phone, I built Flux.What it does: - You describe a personality and what you want the agent to do - In about 2 minutes, you have a live AI agent in iMessage - Blue bars. Native. No app download for whoever texts it.The thesis that got us here: AI is already smart enough. The bottleneck is interaction. Dashboards get forgotten. Texts get answered.This was also my first time hitting #1 on Product Hunt, which was surreal.It's still rough and probably broke something. If you try it, feedback is super welcome, weird edge cases, "this doesn't work," or "why would anyone use this" comments all help.That's all. Happy to answer questions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous ai agents for business
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ai agents in imessage
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The LLM agent logic and multi-channel messaging integrations are straightforward, but maintaining an iMessage gateway requires running Apple hardware farms or reverse-engineering proprietary Apple Push Notification protocols.
What it would actually take: A production version requires macOS server virtualization or a fleet of physical Mac Minis running custom bridge software (such as BlueBubbles or AppleScript daemons) to interact with Apple's private iMessage service. The backend connects these iMessage listeners to a webhook pipeline and LLM orchestrator alongside official WhatsApp and Telegram bot APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Perplexica, Perplexity, Twilio SMS, WhatsApp
Concerns raised: Apple ToS violations, risk of account shutdown, Reliability issues with Apple account provisioning, Flagged for suspicious messaging patterns, Difficult to find GitHub repository from homepage
Feature requests: Open protocol alternative to closed iMessage, Use standard SMS or email instead of iMessage, Clearer homepage navigation and documentation
Competitors
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Attention rank: #68 of 386 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 67 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.