Faro
a text message based accountability companion
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Hey HN! I built justtextfaro.com, a stupidly simple and extremely proactive text message based companion to stop those small tasks from slipping through the cracks. Just text Faro and it will make sure you wont forget it.The problem:The friction. Alarms/Calendars have fussy menus and are cumbersome. You’ll write something in your notes app and never check it again. When you are done with a task you have disable all said alarms/remove calendar events/update your notes app.The solution:Faro is frictionless. 3 key features:1. Get a text every morning of what you have in flight that day2. Alarms/Reminders in any shape you can describe it, no menus. “Nag me until I get my flight tickets to Paris”. “Text me at 2pm next Tuesday to call Bryan back”. “Bug me every few hours to walk the dog”.3. When you are done with a task, just text Faro. No need to edit a note, remove an alarm, or delete a calendar event. Faro will make all changes and deletions necessary.Just text Faro today 1646-879-0459 (thats the entire onboarding) or visit https://www.justtextfaro.com/Excited to chat about feedback/features/bugs/tech stack in the comments!
HN · launched Aug 18, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: reminder and break tracking apps · 126 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- AI feature
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a classic Twilio integration connected to an LLM agent with a scheduled background task database (like Supabase or Cron jobs).
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Email integration, Reduce product costs through email features
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
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- We built a way for web apps to message users' phones without SMS · hn · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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- One Small Thing · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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