AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to iMessage is the best interface, so I built TypeScript SDK for it
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…
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Typing Mind▲826Chat with AI using your API keys. Pay only for what you use. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs supported. The best chat LLM frontend UI for all AI models.
2023 · typingmind.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built this out of frustration of the evergrowing list of AI models and features to try and to fit my workflow. The visual approach clicks for me so i went with it, it provides more freedom and control of the outcome, because predictable results and increased productivity is what I’m after when using conversational AI. The app is packed with features, my most used are prompt library, voice input and text search, narration is useful too. The app is local-first and works right in the browser, no sign up needed and it's absolutely free to try. BYOAK – bring your own API Keys. Let me…
2024 · grafychat.com · its alternatives →
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Flux▲375how can we make AI agents more accessible? it has been a crazy journey seeing how AI agents gets smarter every single day but interaction layer is still missing we are launching Spectrum TODAY: one Unified API connect your AI Agents into iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and more
Jan 2026 · photon.codes · its alternatives →
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A type-safe, elegant iMessage SDK for macOS with zero dependencies - photon-hq/imessage-kit
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Add AI text automation to all your apps
2023 · typedesk.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I made this thing: https://tryflux.ai/. Here's a demo video: https://screen.studio/share/1y2EnC26 Context: I've tried probably 15 different AI apps over the past year. ChatGPT, note-taking apps, productivity apps, all of it. But most of them are just clutter on my iphone. They live in some app I have to deliberately open. And I just... don't. But you know what I open 50 times a day without thinking? iMessage. So out of mild frustration with the "AI app graveyard" on my phone, I built Flux. What it does: - You describe a personality and what…
Jan 2026 · tryflux.ai · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! The day has finally come to stop adding features and start sharing what I've been building the last 5-6 months. It's a bit of CrewAI, OpenDevon, LangFuse/Cloud all in one, providing devs who prefer TypeScript an integrated framework thats provides a lot out of the box to start experimenting and building agents with. It started after peeking at the LangChain docs a few times and never liking the example code. I began experimenting with automating a simple Jira request from the engineering team to add an index to one of our Google Spanner databases (for context I'm the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Develop for multiple messengers using JavaScript
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Task Bert▲119Fully local open-source agent for managing your texts
Apr 2026 · taskbert.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Hacker News! My name is Sagar, I’m working on a startup called Speakeasy - we’re making all APIs self-service. The platform is currently in beta, but we’re independently launching this tool which you can use to generate language-idiomatic, statically-typed TS SDKs from any public OpenAPI schemas. We hope to continue iterating on this to give devs a way to easily generate high fidelity client SDKs for all the major languages. Inspiration for this product is from past experiences struggling with OpenAPI. I was originally optimistic about using the OpenAPI tools to build out our offering,…
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Hi HN! Two weeks ago at their Dev Days, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT apps, interactive widgets that render inside ChatGPT using the Apps SDK and MCP. Building them using their template repository was surprisingly painful: every time you make a change on your React widget, you need to rerun the entire build pipeline to get fresh JS and CSS assets. The dev feedback loop was pretty terrible. That’s why I built a TypeScript starter that gets you up and running in under a minute. Clone, npm install, npm run dev, paste your ngrok URL into ChatGPT, and you're iterating on widgets with Hot Module Reload…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m Tony, co-founder of Inngest. I wanted to share AgentKit, our Typescript multi-agent library we’ve been cooking and testing with some early users in prod for months. Although OpenAI’s Agents SDK has been launched since, we think an Agent framework should offer more deterministic and flexible routing, work with multiple model providers, embrace MCP (for rich tooling), and support the unstoppable and growing community of TypeScript AI developers by enabling a smooth transition to production use cases. This is why we are building AgentKit, and we’re really excited about it for a few…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Go beyond the boundaries of the chat window
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send and receive iMessages on anything with a web browser - CamHenlin/iMessageWebClient
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing the Code ChatGPT Plugin - a new era of seamless interaction between ChatGPT and your codebase. This TypeScript Code Analyzer furnishes a suite of utilities to analyze TypeScript code, enabling ChatGPT to "talk" with YOUR code. Fetch a list of all the files in your project, list of every function in a TypeScript or JavaScript file, or even get the content of a specific function, all while staying in your conversation with ChatGPT. With accessible API endpoints, you can effortlessly navigate your codebase and ask ChatGPT anything you can think of about it. Say goodbye to the days…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ably Chat▲73Hey HN, Staff Engineer at Ably here. Over the past few months I've been speaking to engineers building AI assistants, copilots, and agentic workflows (over 40 companies at this point), with particular focus on cloud-hosted agents. I expected the hard problems to be in model selection, prompt engineering, and orchestration. Instead, the same infrastructure challenges kept coming up: realtime sync between agents and end clients is surprisingly painful to get right. - Managing and scaling WebSocket or SSE connections between agents and clients - Buffering messages server-side and implementing…
Apr 2026 · ably.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, During the last weeks, I've been working to create a system that allows you to convert prompts into chatbots and mini apps on platforms that everyone uses on a daily basis. The first integrated platform is Telegram: Telegram is a powerful platform with many integrations and features like bots, apps, games and even payments. So I thought it would be nice to make it easier to create these apps. I created a bot http://t.me/PlutonicDevBot. Workflow is pretty simple: create or choose an existing bot and send a text/voice message about what to create just like you prompt…
2025 · plutonic.dev · its alternatives →
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We just made @ManusAI run inside iMessage. You can turn any agent into a native messaging experience: threads, reactions, and real-time interaction across channels. And it’s ALL open source. Everyone is making agents smarter, and we’re making them interact better.
Feb 2026 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Send iMessage, SMS, and RCS from your CRM or via REST API. 2-3x higher response rates than SMS. No A2P registration. SOC 2 certified. Used by 20,000+ businesses.
2020 · sendblue.co · its alternatives →
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I've built this PWA to use ChatGPT by API. My main motivation was to use the API since it is much cheaper than the premium plan and I only pay for usage. The main inspiration was ChatGPT-web by Niek [1], but I was lacking time to dig into the code base to make changes. Hence I went for a lightweight approach with Alpine.js and Open Props. There is no build step, the dependencies are fetched via CDN. In general it was much fun to work with Alpine.js - being a parent means having very little time. So it was great to not have to invest 20h into learning a new framework. My main ask was…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A few months ago, WhatsApp released a calling API. I’d been experimenting with conversational interfaces for a while, and it seemed like a good chance to build something that could let businesses create voice-based agents without much setup. I’ve been working on this over the past few months, and the beta is now publicly available. The idea is simple: you point the platform to your website URL, and it automatically configures a voice + messaging agent that customers can call or message. No code required. My expectation is that many businesses will eventually offer some form of conversational…
Dec 2025 · livetok.ai · its alternatives →
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