Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
Chert, a new platform backed by Y Combinator, aims to enhance communication via iMessage for businesses. It allows teams to book meetings and provide customer support through real iMessage threads, ensuring high engagement rates. The service integrates with various tools and offers features like end-to-end encryption and live delivery state tracking.
- ▪Chert enables businesses to communicate with customers through iMessage, achieving a 10x reply rate compared to cold emails.
- ▪The platform supports real iMessage threads with verified senders and end-to-end encryption.
- ▪Chert integrates with popular tools like Salesforce and HubSpot, allowing seamless communication workflows.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News: Front Page |
| Canonical URL | https://www.trychert.com |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 15:12:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T15:27:38.202Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T15:39:05.075Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 7OAYfktpJfEr |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Backed byiMessage infrastructure for reaching people at scale.Build and deploy AI on iMessage to reach people at scale while maintaining quality, trust, and personalized interaction.Book a Call→‹ChertiMessageHey! Is the 2BR on Pine still open?Looking for a Sept 1 move-in.Yes, still available.Want to come tour it?Definitely.Saturday morning works for me.Got you on the calendar.Sat 10am — sound good?AUG24Pine Street · TourSat 10:00 AM · ConfirmedDelivered+iMessageTrusted by growing teamsPLATFORMOne API. Many features.Everything you expect from iMessage.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Hacker News: Front Page.