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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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 :)
Never knew how much I actually needed meeting noted before this haha, and being able to query them on the go from iMessage is super useful 😉😉
@charles_mcclasky thanks charles!!
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How do you handle shared memory in group chats, like what’s private to me and what the whole group can see?
@thamibenjelloun group chats and your private memory are completely separate.
in a group, folk only sees what's in that group thread. it won't pull from your personal memory, your dms, calendar, email, location, or anything from outside that chat. if someone asks for that in a group, it refuses and tells them to dm you directly.
@miras1 thanks! yes, u can :) just tell it to install claude code
Loved that the demo is about planing a date instead of yet another work task — there's actual soul behind this one. Memory that doesn't really grow and "proactivity" that's just a timer are exactly the two thiings that have kept me from trusting any of these tools. Genuinely curious how folk solves them under the hood — is it a real architectural difference, or the same promise everyone's making?
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@haotian_wang5 appreciate this comment! the date demo was a deliberate choice. on your two:
memory is a knowledge graph, not a growing file, facts are nodes and edges form over time as it connects them, so it grows in structure not just length.
proactivity isnt just a timer, folk runs on an always-on cloud computer with condition-based watchers ("ping me if the price drops below $80") that check state and only fire when its actually true.
as a dev, i make promises i stand behind. as a user, check it out! tell me if I kept my promise ;)
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havent slept all night, u made my launch day ngl. tysm for taking the effort to comment nice words, its really appreciated.
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
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@ansari_adin 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?
The memory part is what I want to understand better, how does it actually build context over time? is it pulling from message history or does it need explicit inputs from us?
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@munis_abbas automatically! just by talking to it. you talk, folk listens, and keeps the things worth keeping (who matters, what you like, the plans youre nursing) as nodes, then connects them over time, with a quiet overnight pass where it thinks about you.
you can be explicit if you like ("remember my sister is vegetarian"), but mostly it just gets to know you over time. i wouldnt force it. mention one oddly specific thing today and itll resurface a week later..
the exact moment i fell in love with Folk was when it was the second one to tell me happy birthday!
the first one was obviously the team at Nozomio haha.
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hahaha! the video made me laugh but I'm also impressed by the potential of Folk. Wish you all the best Arlan
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@german_merlo1 arlan is currently napping (took the night shift, im taking the morning shift lol), so on his behalf: THANK YOU!! we really put effort into that video and comments like this make all the time we spent worth it.
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yeah my dude, this is sick! go @arlanrakh!
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@arlanrakh @jayreno thank you for the nice comment! we have so many more features in store
@jayreno thanks a lot jay!