Re:My roommate and I made iMessage smarter – 2k users overnight
by lyoung11 on Saturday November 09, 2024 @09:32PM
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Hey my roommate and I just launched Ava - an AI Secretary that lives in iMessage. No BS, no extra apps, just pure unix philosophy: do one thing well. In our case, that's making your texts smarter.
This is pretty exciting for us as this is the first time one of our projects has received some serious traction.
First 24hr stats (bash + gnuplot came in clutch here):
- 2,047 users (not counting our moms)
- Most common use: "remind me to..."
- We've seen moms asking about martial arts classes for kids, people searching for flights, and much more
The cool part is how we hooked into iMessage's extension system. Turns out you can intercept messages before they're sent and do some wild stuff with them.
This is pretty exciting for us as this is the first time one of our projects has received some serious traction.
First 24hr stats (bash + gnuplot came in clutch here):
- 2,047 users (not counting our moms) - Most common use: "remind me to..." - We've seen moms asking about martial arts classes for kids, people searching for flights, and much more
The cool part is how we hooked into iMessage's extension system. Turns out you can intercept messages before they're sent and do some wild stuff with them.
Try it out at: secretary.my or just text [email protected]
We built this because we believe that for a majority of use cases iMessage is the most intuitive and easiest UI.
Thoughts?