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This Week in Startups · 2025-11-14 · 74 min · 16,329 words

Stop ghosting your friends with Nox's RPLY, plus Alloy Automation and a Shopify flashback | E2209

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I have more than 800 unread um iMessages on my phone. 800 is maybe even the lower end of some of the inboxes that that we've had to deal with. It works with two services today, iMessage and WhatsApp. I'm curious about the the the privacy element of what you want to do is, you know, not send your messages or at least have them anonymized and, you know, never personally identifiable if they're ever going to be sent to a cloud server.

When I saw you guys built this, my first thought was, hell yes. And my second thought was, will my friends yell at me for using it? AI reply generations sound like you I feel like we're like a a year or two away though from having enough RAM in every single new Mac computer that we're going to be able to run local models without it being a question. People are not as excited as I think they should be about local models. And the reason why I'm excited is because you can have 300 requests in a second if your computer is pig a chat.

And then you also talked about mapping relationships, kind of using people's text messages as a way to sort out who's in their life and and when. What's interesting is if you take all of this hardcore statistic and you try to weave a story of the tapestry of your life over it. This week in Startups is brought to you by Pilot. Focus on your product. Let Pilot handle your bookkeeping.

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