Text Agent Store Builds an App-Store Distribution Layer for 139 Agents You Reach by SMS, With No Account or Install

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Text Agent Store launched on Product Hunt on September 17 at #3 with 304 upvotes, from Stanley Virgint, Patrick Sullivan and Jayanth Sidamsety, as a directory of roughly 139 human-verified agents reachable by adding a contact and texting, covering travel, matchmaking, betting, recruiting and health coaching. Builders submit for free, verification is human review within 24 hours, and agents monetize individually through optional purchases or subscriptions on an App Store model; the catalog went from zero to about 137 agents in three months. The interesting part is not the agents, it is that SMS is being used to route around app-store review and signup funnels entirely.