Launching today
folk
the AI in your texts that gets stuff done
234 followers
the AI in your texts that gets stuff done
234 followers
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.
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
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?
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
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!
Prava
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
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@kaiserrr 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.
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
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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.