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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

Incredible backstory, Arlan! To answer your question on trust: for me, seeing an AI that handles personal context securely without selling data is key, so on-device processing or explicit privacy guardrails build that trust. As for what I wish it could handle—definitely the administrative 'mental load' like automatically tracking flight changes or booking a spot without me checking three different apps. The fact that Folk lives right inside existing messaging apps and actually remembers context over time is a massive step up from regular bots. Congrats on the launch!
Maker

   thank you! one of the most thoughtful answers here

Appreciate the kind words, Jumashukurov! Always glad to share my thoughts. Cheers!

 The "gets smarter with every conversation" line is doing a lot of work. The consumer AI memory problem is mostly an undo problem. Before adding folk to a group chat with friends, what I'd want to know: where does the memory live, and at what granularity can I ask folk to forget something one of us said?

🔌 Plugged in

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)

Maker

 Stay tuned. there are more to come to folk

Maker

 thanks so much tom!!

I'm pretty into the iMessage -> Assistant workflow and am currently using pretty heavily. How does Folk compare and differentiate from other assistants like Poke?

Maker

 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!

 oh very interesting! Going to give it a try

Maker

  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!

the 'gets smarter with every conversation' claim is the one I'd want to pressure test. most AI assistants that claim this either mean they store a growing context file or they fine-tune on your data, and those are very different things with very different privacy and quality implications. what's actually happening under the hood when Folk learns from you and where does that data live

Maker

 good pressure test. folk is neither of your assumptions. no fine-tuning and no dumb growing context file. its a structured knowledge graph running in your own isolated instance. think nodes and edges back when you took DS&A in college. the facts are nodes, and the edges form over time as the agent connects what it learns about you. super simple. u building in the space?

 not building in this space directly but i track it closely, working on a directory for AI tools so this kind of architecture decision is exactly what i'm interested in. the knowledge graph answer is more honest than most makers give on this question. will give folk a proper try

Maker

 fair question. neither of those.

we don't fine-tune on your data. what actually happens: after conversations, folk extracts durable facts about you (preferences, people, context) into a private memory store tied to your account. at the start of each session it pulls the relevant pieces back in, so it doesn't need your full message history in the prompt every time.

yoooo! congrats on the launch
do you support custom integrations / MCPs?

Maker

 yessir, just tell it to connect to any type of mcp or go to -> connections -> custom if MCP requires OAuth

Maker

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

Maker

 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! 🚀

Maker

 thanks so much

Maker

 thank you so much abdulla! yeah, we really tried our best with the geolocation feature. its honestly my favorite whenever I go grocery shopping

Can’t wait to try it out myself

does it have an api so that my server can inform about errors or cpu spikes and folk will

Message me about it?

Maker

 yoo! we don't have api support YET but it is on the roadmap (+sdk) :)

Amazing, can I install custom plugins/skills in folk? How does the integrations work?

I was looking to connect my card with it for lunch orders

Maker

 folk will NEVER store your card. ima keep it a buck, theres no "connect your card" in folk today.

INSTEAD, Folk drives the order in its own browser, and when it hits the pay step it pings you (human in the loop amirite). Folk can stay signed in to the ordering site after the first time, so you can legit send a msg such as "folk, order my usual"

is a saved-payment option something youd actually want? this is the kind of thing we'd only ship if we could keep it as safe as everything else in folk.

Maker

 yes u can! just ask folk to connect you to something + u can create custom skills as well :)

Maker

 You can just ask your folk to install skills or integration for you. Also, for integrations and MCP servers, you can set them up manually on dashboard if you want

this ai guy actually gets stuff done, this is the future right behind such products. love the gps feature, congrats on the launch!

Maker

 thanks bro!

Maker

Thanks! We have tons of cool feature planned so stay tuned

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