Faro
a text message based accountability companion
Details
- External ID
- 49350828
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Aug. 18, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3125
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
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!
Enrichment
- Theme
- sleep, wake, and clock utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- text message accountability coach
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 40 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 41 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built an accountability companion that lives in your texts · hn · 2026-07-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Text-me: a personal agent that learns your pace · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Praxos Update: iMessage and SMS Actions · hn · 2025-10-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- One Small Thing · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- We built a way for web apps to message users' phones without SMS · hn · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- I made an emergency page for my family · hn · 2026-05-27 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Rano · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Calerto for Mac · ph · 2026-09-12 · 124 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.