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Stella Foster

iMessage on Any Phone

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Hey HN — I built Stella Foster (stellafoster.com). Stella lets you access your iMessages, WhatsApps, and Telegrams from any phone — flip phone, feature phone, anything. A Mac desktop app connects to your messaging channels natively. Once that's running, Stella has a phone number — you text or call her from any device and she gives you your messages. No apps or internet needed on the second phone. If it can call or text, it works. Free to try. Happy to get into the technical details in the comments.

HN · launched Mar 25, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views

Niche: sms and messaging apis · 64 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Communication
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Partial The SMS/voice assistant wrapper is easy with Twilio and OpenAI Realtime, but bridging natively into desktop iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram without official APIs requires fragile reverse-engineered desktop daemons.

What it would actually take: The architecture pairs a cloud phone gateway (Twilio + LLM function calling) with a local macOS daemon. The core technical hurdle is interfacing with macOS Messages (accessing `chat.db` with Full Disk Access and sending via AppleScript/Accessibility APIs or private BlueBubbles/Barcelona protocols) alongside local WhatsApp/Telegram web/desktop automations while keeping them securely synced to a cloud relay.

Discussion

2 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Daemon needs to be running on laptop while away, Unclear how routing/tunneling actually works

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 409 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #406 of 410 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 147 days after the earliest competitor.

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  • Wingman · ph · 2026-09-18 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • Mermaid · ph · 2026-10-16 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Omut · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • Stella · ph · 2026-10-20 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Blooio · ph · 2026-10-21 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • SwenTalk · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Textlore · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46

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