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a lightweight (~850 LOC core), self-hosted, Instinct-like iMessage agent
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GITHUB · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 41 upvotes (top 34%)
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes A lightweight self-hosted agent that reads and sends iMessages can be built with AppleScript for sending and SQLite reads of chat.db for receiving, wrapped by an LLM. The main caveats are macOS permission setup and Apple's changing internals, which a solo developer can manage.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2212 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #714 of 2213 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
- Insta-Bot · github · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Inkbox: Give your AI agents email, phone, iMessage, and an internet address · yc · 2026-07-08 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- imbo · github · 2026-10-24 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- AIMX · hn · 2026-05-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- KeyID · hn · 2026-03-14 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- NanoMuse · hn · 2026-10-07 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- bits · github · 2026-10-21 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Scribely · github · 2026-10-22 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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