Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by jimbob45 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @07:55PM (#25853997)

I thought Apple barred iMessages from being sent/retrieved outside of the specific iMessage app? How did you dodge that?

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by el_dev_hell on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:45PM (#25855133)

Apparently:

How in the world did you get iMessage to work on Android and Windows? This was a tough one to figure out! Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by jimbob45 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:12AM (#25856355)

Hmmm, you could pretty easily spin up a Mac container with the Beeper app and then remote into that from your phone. Seems like a lot of work.

Still, it seems like they didn't really dodge anything at all. It's the same gripe I had with Signal: if I have to switch between iMessage and Signal, then I'll never be able to sell Signal to my family.

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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by aquaticsunset on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:15PM (#25861301)

I'm not sure if this project will go any further, nor if iMessage works inside here, but this is an easier way forward:

https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap

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