An always-on AI agent that lives on a cheap little Raspberry Pi in your home, with a real phone number you text over iMessage or SMS from anywhere. It runs Hermes, an open-source agent, and installs by handing the guide to a coding agent that works over SSH. Best of all, it's a foundation: build a family calendar on a kitchen screen, a recipe helper on the fridge, whatever you dream up. We build in public — join the Discord to see what others are making.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I always thought a personal AI agent was cool, but I could never figure out where one should actually live. On my laptop it's off when I travel, and reaching it means some clunky bot app I never open.
So I gave my house its own computer. iMessage Hermes is an always-on AI agent running on a cheap little Raspberry Pi, with a real phone number I text over iMessage or SMS from anywhere. It runs Hermes (open-source), and you set it up by handing the guide to a coding agent — it does most of the work over SSH.
The best part: it's a foundation. Once it's running, you build whatever you want on it. My family has a dashboard on a screen in the kitchen with everyone's upcoming commitments — games, appointments, who's traveling — and I just text the agent to add things ("dinner with the Kims Friday at 7") or ask it "when's the recital?" There's a recipe helper on a screen stuck to the fridge, so the steps stay right in front of you while your hands are covered in flour. We've already got a community building things like this, and we're launching a Discord so creators can share what they make.
Would love your feedback, and happy to answer anything. What would you put on your always-on home agent?
About iMessage Hermes on a Raspberry Pi on Product Hunt
“An always-on AI agent that lives in your home”
iMessage Hermes on a Raspberry Pi launched on Product Hunt on July 27th, 2026 and earned 94 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. An always-on AI agent that lives on a cheap little Raspberry Pi in your home, with a real phone number you text over iMessage or SMS from anywhere. It runs Hermes, an open-source agent, and installs by handing the guide to a coding agent that works over SSH. Best of all, it's a foundation: build a family calendar on a kitchen screen, a recipe helper on the fridge, whatever you dream up. We build in public — join the Discord to see what others are making.
On the analytics side, iMessage Hermes on a Raspberry Pi competes within Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub and Bots — topics that collectively have 695.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how iMessage Hermes on a Raspberry Pi performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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iMessage Hermes on a Raspberry Pi was hunted by Patrick Lucas. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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