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I just built it this morning! I was planning to use it to send myself reminders.

Why not use the Reminders app instead?

Was also planning on using it for sending happy birthday texts

Awesome! I wish iMessage had an api so that you didn’t need to go through a computer to do these things.

? Everything goes through a "computer"...

They probably meant computer as in a desktop OS instead of from their iPhone.