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We **help businesses send rich, personalized texts** that build trust, drive engagement, and create real conversations.\n\nIf SMS messaging is part of your strategy, we’d love to show you how you can do more!\n\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n# **🎬 Our Launch Video:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJkl6m7RxgI\n\n# **‼️ Why This Matters**\n\nModern customer engagement is broken. Despite the abundance of messaging channels - email, SMS, WhatsApp, in-app notifications, and voice - most brand communications feel impersonal, transactional, and spammy. **Consumers are overwhelmed with noise**:\n\n* 82% of consumers received a spam text in the past week\n* 70% of consumers will penalize a business for a poor communication experience\n* 35% of consumers are annoyed by impersonalized and irrelevant content\n\nMessages go unread. Calls go unanswered. Engagement is at an all time low. The problem is clear, all of us have felt it.\n\n# **🛠 Our Solution**\n\nRCS addresses these issues with verified, branded, and interactive messages and it is finally here in the US. However most businesses don’t know it exists, and the few that do are still figuring out how to use it.\n\n**Smobi changes that**. We know exactly how to unlock RCS to drive real value.\n\nWith Smobi, you can:\n\n* 👷 Create complex AI-powered conversational flows in minutes\n* 🚀 Launch them via API or campaign\n* 📊 Analyze every tap, interaction, and read\n\nWe also handle the strict carrier vetting and compliance, so you don’t have to.\n\n**The results speak for themselves**:\n\n* ⚡ On average, 5 - 10x the engagement vs SMS\n* 🎯 4x higher CTR than SMS\n* 💳 Up to 3x increase in purchase intent\n\n# **🙏 Join Us**\n\nWe’re already helping innovative businesses in industries such as healthcare, entertainment, and fintech, leverage RCS to provide the most unique experiences for their customers. \n\nIf you’re interested in doing the same, let’s talk.\n\n\\\nBook a Demo: https://www.smobi.com/contact\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93769&key=user_uploads/846621/98237455-fafd-4894-959d-7b955b4fde85)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OOP-smobi-business-texting-reimagined", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-09-11T16:36:35.923Z" }, { "id": 73135, "title": "Smobi - New age marketplace for businesses for sale", "tagline": "Bringing main-street business acquisitions to the 21st century", "body": "# Overview\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Kunal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-puri1/) and [Michael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mning1598/) from [Smobi](https://smobimarket.com/)!\n\nSmobi is a marketplace that makes it **easy for buyers** to purchase brick & mortar small businesses. We do this by **verifying business listing data** and **managing deal-flow** on our platform.\n\nWebsite: [smobimarket.com](http://smobimarket.com)\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc69c6f56-e67a-45b9-904d-ee8c7ea7f4f0_3456x1812.png)\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\n* Buyers have to go through numerous listings to find quality businesses because most listings are **incomplete and misrepresented**\n* Business brokers and owners who are looking to sell, **waste their time** working with buyers who aren’t qualified to purchase their business\n* In the past 30 years, technology has only changed the business for sale market in **two** ways:\n * Listings have moved online instead of being in the local newspaper\n * Financial documents are emailed instead of being sent via mail\n* The baby boomer generation is retiring over the next decade, who owns **1\\.4 million businesses** that will close their doors unless they are sold to someone willing to buy them\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\nFor those looking to buy, we utilize first and third party data to screen listings, so buyers are looking at the complete picture of the business that is for sale. Buyers can keep track of the state of each of the listings they are interested in and manage deal flow on the platform.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c68aba5-bbb6-4d50-9daf-4afef20fb191_3456x1822.png)\n\nAdditionally, we create NDA protected data rooms with more in-depth documents for each listing on our website. If the broker / seller of the business thinks you’re a good match for buying the business, we send the data room to the buyer.\n\nFor those looking to sell their business, we create a comprehensive profile for each buyer that is interested in a listing that the seller has created. Using data that the buyer has provided and our internal business logic, we classify how well of a match a person is for your business, ultimately saving time in your search for a buyer.\n\n![](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F465d0d7a-7313-4cb9-a80a-e6011294ea8c_3454x1828.png)\n\n### **Our Vision:**\n\nOur long term vision is to **digitize the entire acquisition process** for main-street businesses, ultimately making small business ownership attainable for everyone.\n\n### **Who Are We?**\n\nHi everyone, we are Kunal and Michael, and we are building Smobi. Our mission is to make small business ownership attainable by everyone.\n\nKunal formerly worked in Amazon Advertising, where he built several notification delivery channels that supported 10B+ communications annually. Kunal spent over 6 months in 2022 looking to purchase multiple SMBs and found the process of finding and purchasing a business to be extremely complex, especially for a first time buyer.\n\nBefore Smobi, Michael worked at another YC startup, Dover, as an early engineer where he worked on growth initiatives and building AI products.\n\nKunal and Michael grew up together, have known each other for 10 years, and now both reside in NYC. Together, we are attempting to simplify the small business acquisition process for all parties involved.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73135&key=user_uploads/846621/2ed626b9-972e-4a72-84c0-fe19ecf48dee)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\nThank you for reading about Smobi! We welcome any feedback for our platform as we are just beginning!\n\n* **Sign up today**: Sign up and browse 700+ businesses for sale and get notified when businesses come up for sale tailored to your preferences.\n* **Join our newsletter**: Sign up for our [blog](https://smobi.com/blog) for guides on how to buy and sell SMBs!\n* **Give us your feedback**: Tell us more about what criteria and information you would want before purchasing a SMB\n* **Connect us**: Help us connect with SBA approved lenders, business brokers, people looking to purchase small businesses, and owners looking to sell their business", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1b-smobi-new-age-marketplace-for-businesses-for-sale", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2023-07-17T14:37:58.227Z" } ] }, { "id": 29571, "name": "Apten", "slug": "apten", "former_names": [ "Attent" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba5782492516410e226be3162e29ac3095f17be.png", "website": "https://www.apten.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Apten is an omni-channel AI agent that engages and nurtures leads across text, call, email, and webchat. \r\n\r\nWe help enterprises in consumer services convert more leads.", "one_liner": "Omnichannel AI agents that engage leads across SMS, voice, and email", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1715787443, "tags": [ "Sales", "Marketing", "SMS", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apten", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/apten.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/apten", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Apten_AI", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Apten/61552046652434/", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba5782492516410e226be3162e29ac3095f17be.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1547400, "full_name": "Daniel Ho", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Daniel is the Co-founder & CEO @ Apten. Previously a PM at Tesla building systems to automate the detection and chargeback of supplier issues ($XXM in cost recovery / year). Built supply chain analytics at Amazon, Lucid Motors, and Walmart. Studied Economics + Data Science at UC Berkeley. \n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/danielho799", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dho1357", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1d9e3906182a989d57a4ff7307466a2eafe768e8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1522706, "full_name": "Roshan Kumaraswamy", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Roshan is the Co-founder & CTO at Apten.\n\nBefore Apten, Roshan spent three years at AWS building sales planning applications & data platforms to empower the AWS Sales org. Before that, he ideated & built multi-data source capabilities for Flux (language) at InfluxData (YC W13) as one of their first interns, and studied EECS at UC Berkeley for 3 years.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/roshan-kumaraswamy", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/roshan_k_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3b8cfc6f85af36d943e5baaead1673d8ac42ad32.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 80696, "title": "Founding SDR", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apten/jobs/Wh8L33A-founding-sdr", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$75K - $145K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 83503, "title": "Software Engineer (Full Stack)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apten/jobs/9vu8UGR-software-engineer-full-stack", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Node.js", "Python", "React", "Prompt Engineering" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94921, "title": "Apten: omni-channel AI agents for B2C sales/marketing", "tagline": "Convert more leads across text, call, email, and webchat.", "body": "TLDR: Apten is an **omni-channel AI agent** that engages and nurtures leads across **text, call, and email, and webchat.**\n\nWebchat specifically has been around for ages - but when a lead starts a conversation on the website and leaves halfway through, **they’re** **gone.**\n\nApten is not only able to start a conversation through webchat, but **proactively reach out via SMS/voice/email once the lead goes inactive.**\n\nToday, Apten automates sales/marketing for hundreds of thousands of leads each month - we work with some of the largest enterprises in consumer services (industries including home services, healthcare, education, financial services, and insurance).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63At2HXNX4k\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, email/sms marketing automation systems to convert new leads.\n\nThese systems fall short because:\n\n* Human teams are required to scale up dialing/call efforts (leads slip through the cracks)\n* SMS/email automations are typically one-way, static sequences without personalization\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nApten automates sales and marketing for B2C enterprises with:\n\n* **Omni-channel capabilities**: set up a single conversational flow that works across SMS, voice, email, and webchat.\n * Apten maintains unified memory across SMS, voice, emai, and webchat (just like a human does) to **personalize conversations at scale**\n * Apten can also **switch between channels** at anytime to **meet a lead where they want to be met**\n * Move leads through different conversational flows depending on **where they are in the customer/lead journey**\n* **Intelligent follow-up:** Apten will not only personalize follow-ups based on what it knows about a lead or a past conversation, but it will also dynamically adjust **when to follow-up based on a lead’s repsonse**\n * Personalized AI voicemails can be left on dial attempts that go to an answering machine\n * Apten is able to use local presence dialing to auto-match the number it dials from to one that best matches the lead’s area code\n* **AI tools:** Apten can take actions with your systems (scheduling, dialers, quote APIs, etc)\n* **Human in the loop:** Handles transfers to your human team at any time (cold or warm). Apten can also dynamically transfer to specific numbers depending on\n* **Reliability:** setup custom guardrails that automatically detect non-compliant messages and proactively fix them before they’re sent to the lead\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re an enterprise that:\n\n* Falls in a consumer services industry (home services, financial services, insurance, education, healthcare, auto, law, etc)\n* Generates a high volume of leads (5k+ leads / mo)\n* Uses marketing automation (drip texts/emails, dialer sequences) + a sales team/call center to engage leads over the phone\n\nWe’d love to chat - you can find us at http://apten.ai.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ogz-apten-omni-channel-ai-agents-for-b2c-sales-marketing", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-10-27T15:16:24.244Z" }, { "id": 91362, "title": "Apten: Omni-channel AI Agents for Sales and Marketing", "tagline": "Engage and nurture leads across text, call, and email", "body": "TLDR: Apten is an **omni-channel AI agent** that engages and nurtures leads across **text, call, and email.**\n\nToday, Apten automates sales and marketing conversations across hundreds of thousands of leads.\n\nIt responds at any time, automatically follows up with personalized messages, and **dynamically switches between channels** to meet leads where they want to be met.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EX6BxpnAVQ\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, email/sms marketing automation systems to convert new leads.\n\nThese systems fall short because:\n\n* Human teams are required to scale up sales operations\n* SMS/email automations are typically one-way, static sequences\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nBuilt for enterprise, Apten comes with:\n\n* **Omni-channel capabilities**: set up a single conversational flow that works across SMS, voice, and email\n * Apten maintains unified memory across SMS, voice, and email (just like a human does) to personalize conversations at scale\n * It also processes existing data/context about leads from your CRM to nurture leads with relevant follow-ups\n* **AI tools:** Give Apten an API, and it will take actions with your systems (scheduling, dialers, quote APIs, etc)\n* **Human in the loop:** Handles transfers to your human team at any time (cold or warm)\n* **Reliability:** includes a native guardrail system that automatically detects non-compliant messages and proactively fixes them before they’re even sent out\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Generates a high volume of leads (2k+ leads / mo)\n* Uses marketing automation (drip texts/emails, dialer sequences)\n* Is scaling up a sales team\n\nWe’d love to chat with you - you can find us at http://apten.ai.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nla-apten-omni-channel-ai-agents-for-sales-and-marketing", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2025-06-17T13:40:44.819Z" }, { "id": 87585, "title": "Apten - AI SMS + voice agents to convert leads", "tagline": "An AI agent that texts & calls in the same way as a human", "body": "**TLDR:** We help B2C companies automate sales and marketing with custom AI SMS and voice agents. Apten handles inbound/outbound calls + texts 24/7, automatically follows up at the right time, and syncs with your knowledge base/systems.\n\nHey everyone - we’re Daniel and Roshan, the founders of Apten :)\n\nOver the last 8 months since launching, we’ve helped companies engage tens of thousands of new leads each month.\n\nToday, Apten becomes an AI agent that can both text and call in the exact same way a human does.\n\n\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nB2C services companies today **(insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc)** rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, and automated text systems to convert new leads.\n\nFollow-ups are not personalized or are manually done by humans, and leads do not get immediate responses 24/7.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nApten is an AI agent that:\n\n* Handles inbound/outbound texts + calls, 24/7\n* Can switch from SMS to voice (and vice versa) at any time in the conversation\n* Guides leads down customizable conversational flows\n* Takes actions with your systems (e.g. pull in quote premiums from an insurance company’s API)\n* Syncs with your knowledge base to pull in relevant info at any time\n\nWhite glove onboarding/support included for every customer!\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Generates a high volume of leads\n* Uses SMS or phone calls to engage/follow-up w/ leads\n* Wants to introduce AI into their sales and marketing process :)\n\nYou can find us at [http://apten.ai.](http://apten.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mmf-apten-ai-sms-voice-agents-to-convert-leads", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-02-11T18:52:47.642Z" }, { "id": 81132, "title": "Apten 💬📲 - AI SMS agents", "tagline": "Apten helps businesses automate communication with customers and leads over SMS text", "body": "**TLDR:** We help B2C businesses automate sales, marketing, and customer service through SMS text. Customize Apten, and it’ll **proactively reach out, respond at any time, and never forget to follow up.**\n\nHey everyone - we’re [Daniel](https://linkedin.com/in/danielho799) & [Roshan](https://linkedin.com/in/roshan-kumaraswamy), the founders of [Apten](https://www.apten.ai/)! 👋 \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81132&key=user_uploads/1547400/595aa8ba-e1da-4e01-b095-a4182f7b1836)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nBusinesses currently rely on humans or traditional SMS automation (drip texting) to qualify and nurture leads. This applies to both inbound leads (e.g., ad -> website -> fills out contact/quote form and leaves phone number) and the re-engagement of existing leads in a CRM. \n\nExample industries where this happens: real estate, insurance, home services\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nAn AI SMS assistant that qualifies and nurtures leads in a **personable way** while responding 24/7 and automatically following up. \n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMYEZ4jYHE**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMYEZ4jYHE)\n\nCustomize:\n\n* Apten’s knowledge (FAQs, info about your business, specific instructions/rules)\n* Specific conversation flows and follow-up schedules for **different types of leads**\n\nApten won’t just chat - it’ll **take actions** in a way a human would to help your business by proactively:\n\n* Categorizing/tagging leads based on the conversation\n* Creating notifications based on conditions you define\n* Determining the appropriate time to follow-up based on a lead's response\n\n \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81132&key=user_uploads/1547400/6db38255-433a-4ddb-9826-20ffd76ebd45)\n\nWe’ll provide white-glove onboarding and support the whole way! \n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a business that:\n\n* Collects phone numbers from leads\n* Employs virtual assistants or a contact center\n* Leverages drip texting campaigns or other SMS automation\n\nWe’d love to [talk to you!](https://calendly.com/daniel-attent/20min)\n\nYou can also email us at [founders@apten.ai](mailto:founders@apten.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L6a-apten-ai-sms-agents", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-05-28T14:21:44.061Z" } ] }, { "id": 29769, "name": "Pinnacle", "slug": "pinnacle", "former_names": [ "InsightForge" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b466ed207f7ecd72989b10237037b204765513f2.png", "website": "https://pinnacle.sh/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pinnacle is an API for RCS, the new standard for SMS for app-like text messages.", "one_liner": "API & SDK for RCS (the next-generation of texting)", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1725406476, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "B2B", "Sales", "E-commerce", "SMS" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pinnacle", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/pinnacle.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trypinnacle/", "x_url": "https://x.com/try_pinnacle", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b466ed207f7ecd72989b10237037b204765513f2.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1439340, "full_name": "Sean Roades", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Sean is co-founder of Pinnacle (S24). After graduating from Harvard College where he studied computer science and econometrics, Sean worked at YouTube where he built machine learning models that handled billions of dollars of ad spend.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sr19943/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SeanRoades", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9450ce473a71ddcfb1f7e3216fb20327c9bdf7bf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 854039, "full_name": "Ivan Zhang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ivan is the cofounder and CEO of Pinnacle.\n\n\nHe studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard College and previously worked as a software engineer at Amazon where he built internal tools. Most recently, he was a software engineer at General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund where he built an open-source data library with over 25,000 downloads.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aivanzhang/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/aivanzhang", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/56ebc3ff505aec72cf1a59be28d391a44f7b7e51.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84168, "title": "Pinnacle📱- RCS (Next-Gen SMS) API for developers", "tagline": "Shop in text; programmable interactive, app-like texts", "body": "Hey YC! We’re [Sean](https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanroades/) and [Ivan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aivanzhang/) from [Pinnacle](https://www.trypinnacle.app/). \\\n\\\nToday, we’re launching [our API](https://docs.trypinnacle.app/api-reference/endpoint/introduction) to send and receive RCS (Next-Gen SMS) text messages natively on user’s devices. We’re also launching an [SDK for Python](https://docs.trypinnacle.app/documentation/python/quick-start) (\\`pip install rcs\\`). If you’re currently sending SMS, you should probably be using Pinnacle.\\\n\\\nHere’s a quick example of how we used our API to sell our [Founder Mode hats](https://shop.trypinnacle.app/products/founder-mode-holy-edition-hat?) (certified by Brian himself 😉)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84168&key=user_uploads/1439340/3c12589b-527f-4fcc-bc9b-f6ecaf5b555e)\n\n# The problem\n\nShort: SMS sucks. \\\nLong: SMS messages have high friction from sending a message to checking out a customer. Interactivity is very limiting with SMS.\n\n# The solution\n\nShort: RCS rocks.\\\nLong: RCS messages reduce high friction for customers to buy products with a single tap and add interactivity through buttons, card carousels, and actions.\n\n# Why now\nThis hasn't been possible until now. Apple rolled out RCS this week on iOS 18. Carrier adoption has been fully supported on all Android devices just this year. Carrier adoption for iOS completes in a couple months. We segment by device so you can adopt RCS incrementally.\n\n# Our asks\n\n* Share - tell your friends & colleagues about Pinnacle\n* YC Companies - **reach out to us (**[**founders@trypinnacle.app**](mailto:founders@trypinnacle.app)**) to join our private beta**. You'll also get a **free Founder Mode hat**, designed by us, **1000 messages / mo free**, and our **24/7 #FounderMode support**.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LtY-pinnacle-rcs-next-gen-sms-api-for-developers", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2024-09-19T21:58:11.562Z" } ] } ]