folk - the AI in your texts that gets stuff done
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Folk is your AI friend that lives in any messaging app: iMessage, Telegram, Discord, and more. It joins meetings, plans your date, knows where you are, and gets smarter with every conversation. The longer you use it, the more it knows you. And now it's multiplayer, so you and your friends can team up and reach your goals together.
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Yoo Product Hunt 👋
I'm Arlan. I dropped out of high school, did research at Stanford at 16, built multiple apps, went through Y Combinator, and have raised over $6M.
I spent the last year going deep on context and memory. I tried everything out there, and two things kept bothering me. First, none of them actually grow with you. They're smart in the moment, but tomorrow they don't remember yesterday. You're always re-explaining yourself, always starting over.
Second, none of them are actually proactive. You're always the one going to them, they never come to you. A lot of tools claim to be proactive, but really it's just a cron job firing on a schedule, and a timer isn't proactivity. Real proactivity is showing up at the right moment on its own, texting you exactly when something matters, without you setting anything up.
Folk is different. It lives inside the messaging apps you already use and it's built from the ground up to integrate into your life, not just assist when you ask.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
It knows where you are. Folk tracks your location and acts on it. Walk past a grocery store with items on your list? It'll ping you. It's not a map, it's context.
It joins your meetings. Folk's notetaker drops into every Google Meet, transcribes everything, and builds on what it learns so it always knows your world.
It remembers everything and gets smarter over time. Folk builds a growing memory of your life. The longer you use it, the more it knows you. That's the whole point.
It's multiplayer. This is the part I'm most excited about. Add friends who are already on Folk, and your folk and theirs can do things for each other, like book a table, share a doc, or check a calendar. One way, and only ever with a tap to approve.
And it does real things like research, coding help, date planning, booking restaurants, and tracking flights, all from the chat thread you're already in.
We're giving Product Hunt users 15% off today with code FOLK.
Two questions I'd genuinely love your take on:
What part of your life do you most wish an AI could just handle for you?
What would make you actually trust an AI with something personal?
Thanks for being here 🙏 Arlan
folk
@arlanrakh @tehreem_fatima5 thank you! one of the most thoughtful answers here
mcp-use
yoooo! congrats on the launch @arlanrakh
do you support custom integrations / MCPs?
@pederzh yessir, just tell it to connect to any type of mcp or go to https://www.getfolk.app/dashboard -> connections -> custom if MCP requires OAuth
Well, let's start by saying that I'm probably in the top 10 of Folk users by api consumption xp (they don't know about my second account), the amount of shit you can get done with it is out in the stratosphere, Nozomio created the best context solution with Nia (still has, Nia keep improving everyday), now it has a system to put it in, Arlan continue to provide so value to every users out there, I can hope in my normal meeting, record the whole thing with folk and launch nia oracle on the job, saved my ass and clients multiple time,
(sent by folk)
.. (tell this mf to enjoy time in Shanghai instead of spending it's in Cursor)
@tomcoustols Stay tuned. there are more to come to folk
@tomcoustols thanks so much tom!!
Product Hunt
I'm pretty into the iMessage -> Assistant workflow and am currently using @Poke.com pretty heavily. How does Folk compare and differentiate from other assistants like Poke?
@gabe hey, love that. poke is genuinely good, they nailed the proactive-texting feel.
geo. folk actually knows where you are and acts on it. walk past the grocery store with stuff still on your list and it pings you. change cities and it adjusts asw (tested it when going to nyc lol)
multiplayer. add friends who are on folk, and your folk can work with their folk. "ask maya's folk to find a sushi spot friday" and the two agents coordinate it, one-way, and only ever with her tap to approve. your assistant stops being a silo.
we also have bunch of other things like meeting note taker, custom memory system that supports 3 memory types, and slightly different agent architecture!
Product Hunt
@arlanrakh oh very interesting! Going to give it a try
@gabe arlan@nozomio.com for any feedback (will give u my personal cell asw if u are ok w that just shoot at an email)
thank u so much!
folk
I love how the product has a built in meeting-notes taker feature. Actually helps me so much because I dont have to use something external to keep my meeting notes and everything is in my folk which means its in my memories and gets connected to every other memory!!
I wonder who implemented it
@aikhan lmao
paid user here and i really love the live geolocation feature. It found me right when I needed a nudge and the context awareness is genuinely impressive. Gets smarter every week. Congrats on the launch! 🚀
@abdulla_baker thanks so much
folk
@abdulla_baker thank you so much abdulla! yeah, we really tried our best with the geolocation feature. its honestly my favorite whenever I go grocery shopping
Cogent
Can’t wait to try it out myself
@arlanrakhdoes it have an api so that my server can inform about errors or cpu spikes and folk will
Message me about it?
@daniel_giacobelli yoo! we don't have api support YET but it is on the roadmap (+sdk) :)
Okibi
folk
@mahyad otdushi. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The "in your texts" framing is interesting because most AI messaging tools still make you context-switch to a separate interface.
What actually triggers the AI here, a keyword, a slash command, something else?
@fberrez1 it lives in messages apps (like imessage or discord) and you just talk to it as it was ur friend :)
@arlanrakh very cool thanks
the multiplayer thing where my ai and my friend's ai coordinate dinner plans without us going back and forth is actually new. haven't seen anyone else do that. the location pings are useful too if they're actually accurate and not just spamming you every time you're near a store
@tina_chhabra thanks for kind words :)