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iMessage is the best interface, so I built TypeScript SDK for it

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I was building my personal agent, but I had to use Telegram, as it was the easiest platform to integrate. I wanted to build the harness and agent, not the infrastructure around these two, yet my UX was struggling. I stick to iMessage, and then I had to use another app to interact with my agent...So I spent a weekend on building a TypeScript SDK, that unifies how to interact with different iMessage providers (as there is no official way to use iMessage), so you can play around with them, without having to commit to one, nor with a need to rewrite half of the codebase to change the integration.It's open-source, you can check the repo here: https://imessage-sdk.dev/

HN · launched Jul 18, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views

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

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial A basic TypeScript wrapper or bot interface can be vibe-coded, but integrating reliably with Apple's private iMessage protocol requires specialized macOS reverse engineering or private Apple Push Notification / sandbox interception.

What it would actually take: Typically built using Node.js/TypeScript communicating via AppleScript, OSA events, or directly polling the internal SQLite chat database (~/Library/Messages/chat.db) with macOS accessibility and disk permissions. The hard part is managing private Apple APIs, sandbox permissions, and headless daemon execution on macOS without triggering Apple ID suspensions.

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Attention rank: #215 of 253 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 262 days after the earliest competitor.

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