# Introducing Spectrum: Agents for the Rest of us

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Podcast: [The Good Tech Companies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-good-tech-companies-6882802)
Published: 2026-07-16T04:25:06+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/eeec668a
Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/eeec668a/a5f754b9.mp3
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Duration seconds: 460

## Resource

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/introducing-spectrum-agents-for-the-rest-of-us . Spectrum is open-source, cross-channel messaging infrastructure that connects your AI agents to iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram — the apps people use daily. Check more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined . You can also check exclusive content about #imessage , #photon-imessage-api , #product-launch , #imessage-ai-agent-platform , #ai-agent , #cross-channel-messaging , #photon-spectrum , #good-company , and more. This story was written by: @photonhq . Learn more about this writer by checking @photonhq's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Spectrum is open-source, cross-channel messaging infrastructure — an SDK and cloud platform that puts your AI agents where people already are — iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Discord. Write your agent logic once and deliver it everywhere: the SDK is MIT-licensed and self-hostable, while Spectrum Cloud gives you managed iMessage/WhatsApp connectivity, sub-second latency, and 99.9% uptime that scales from your first user to millions.

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