Chert
iMessage infrastructure for business
About Chert
Chert provides the infrastructure for businesses to automate conversations over iMessage. We’re already working with B2C startups, customer experience teams, and sales teams to reach end users through trusted and conversational messaging.
Public traction evidence
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- Hacker News
Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
Hey HN! We’re Gary and Ian, and we’re building Chert ( https: www.trychert.com ), an API for businesses to send, receive, and automate iMessage conversations at scale. Check out our demo: https: www.youtube.com watch?v=SRdwvVxMMoI . We originally started by building products on...
- LinkedIn
#ycombinator #ycp26 #startup | Ian Fong | 133 comments
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- LinkedIn
I’m happy to share that Chert (YC P26) is now backed by Y Combinator!
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Grey Baker native X post mentioning Chert
Sending iMessages programmatically should be easy. Congrats on the launch @Cherthq!
- LinkedIn
This weekend, Salman Elgamal, Bimarsha Adhikari, Ian Fong, and I were fortunate to attend and win HackPrinceton under the following categories: - 1st Place in the Amazon-sponsored Best Use of hashtag #GenAI Challenge - Winning Prize in the hashtag #MLH Use of hashtag #MATLAB. We developed 'SustainAI' — an hashtag #AI-powered personal assistant that empowers users to make sustainable lifestyle choices through personalized, data-driven recommendations. (Not our most sustainable weekend, though: 36 hours, 5 slept 😅) Our eco-companion idea was born from the challenge of making individual sustainability accessible, meaningful, and accountable. Our platform engages users with a chatbot interface that leverages the hashtag #OpenAI API, providing real-time, tailored suggestions on eco-friendly practices. Using user data (health, purchase history, and more), it dynamically adapts to guide each p
This weekend, Salman Elgamal, Bimarsha Adhikari, Ian Fong, and I were fortunate to attend and win HackPrinceton under the following categories: - 1st Place in the Amazon-sponsored Best Use of hashtag #GenAI Challenge - Winning Prize in the hashtag #MLH Use of hashtag #MATLAB....
- X
Hey everyone, @Cherthq is now live on Product Hunt! https://t.co/szgOxsw4ve Try out our agent builder, which lets you build and deploy conversational iMessage agents for customer service, inbound lead capture, and more by simply configuring the system prompt and tone.
Hey everyone, @Cherthq is now live on Product Hunt! https://t.co/szgOxsw4ve Try out our agent builder, which lets you build and deploy conversational iMessage agents for customer service, inbound lead capture, and more by simply configuring the system prompt and tone.
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Most people do not lack discipline. They lack a game worth taking seriously. I used to play games 15 hours a day. The same obsession la...
Most people do not lack discipline. They lack a game worth taking seriously. I used to play games 15 hours a day. The same obsession later became running, engineering, hackathons, YC, and building Chert. The point was never to kill obsession. It was to move it somewhere reality...
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Who is going to to YC AI Start up school?👀
Who is going to to YC AI Start up school?👀