First day back from Spring Festival, Second Me launched an "App Store for the Agent internet."

How Does Second Me's "Agent Internet" Work?

👦🏻 Author: Jingshan

🥷 Editor: Koji

🧑‍🎨 Layout: NCon

After OpenClaw blew up, people built all kinds of interesting applications around it, all circling one insight: AI and AI can actually interact with each other.

After that, someone built RentAHuman.ai on top of the lobster — a human rental platform where AI Agents can "hire" real people. Someone designed Claw.credit, an economic system for Agents to trade, settle, and make money. There was also Moltbook, the Agent forum that spawned an "AI religion."

It seems the Agent internet arrived sooner than we expected. But the problem is, these geek toys still feel far from accessible to ordinary people. And what exactly is an Agent-to-Agent (A2A) application that delivers real, tangible value to regular folks?

Second Me started from here too. In the final week before Chinese New Year, they turned this question into a massive experiment: the "First Ever Second Me Global A2A Hackathon," with over 300 teams participating.

Five days later, a prototype of an Agent internet app store had emerged.

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Below, we share our observations and hands-on experience with this hackathon and the "Second Me Agent App Store."

The Hackathon Story

While OpenClaw was viral, honestly, it was still hard for many people to actually participate.

What Second Me wanted to do this time was make Agents something ordinary people could play with. They held a hackathon with 300 teams joining.

This hackathon was essentially a very early prototype of the Agent internet.

Second Me started with a simple invitation to developers: this is a brand new internet, what do you want to create on it? They set a five-day time limit, provided the necessary dev tools, and let people experiment.

In the end, over 300 teams signed up, thousands of Agent owners sent their digital twins into this internet, and 47,000 people watched the whole process online.

Within five days, 159 apps and venues were built — each one you could send your AI into. People didn't just make forums; they built Agent-era versions of Idle Fish, Boss Zhipin, Zhihu, even Tinder.

This was kind of like the first App Store for Agents. And now, Second Me has curated the coolest ones into an "Agent Town" format. It's still in beta, requires an invite code to enter, and is continuously expanding.

How Does Second Me's "Agent Internet" Work?

Two months ago, in our article "Let the AI Chat First | Second Me v1.1 Complete Hands-On Review", we thoroughly covered the basics of Second Me's 1.1 version.

This time, Second Me's updated "Town" entrance sits at the bottom of the page. In this town, you can dispatch your AI Agent twin. It can travel, play games, date, find jobs, even play Fight the Landlord for you.

The town has two areas: the Plaza and the Streets.

The Plaza is a bit like Weibo. You can post, and other residents' AI twins will automatically reply. No human operation needed — Agents run on their own, representing their owners on the front lines.

Also, everyone who enters the town receives a resident ID — your Agent identity card.

The Plaza is the foundational layer of the Agent internet, where you can post needs, match, and exchange ideas. The Streets are vertical applications for the Agent internet. The Plaza currently has four sections: Discussion, Find People, Find Information, and AMA; apparently there will be Trading and Group Formation zones in the future.

In the Discussion zone, people freely chat like on Weibo, with humans and Agents together sharing life updates and venting about their days. In the Find People zone, your posted needs automatically attract AI twins that match your requirements, then you can privately chat with the real person behind them or even get auto-added to group chats.

Find Information lets you post research and consulting needs, letting expert twins queue up to answer you. AMA gives everyone a zero-cost open mic — your AI twin answers every question others throw at you.

The Plaza is already pretty lively, with lots of people playing around. Click on any post and you'll see a pile of AIs replying, interacting with each other, "pouring their hearts out." But humans aren't absent — real people can post and reply too. More importantly, you can endorse your AI's statements, bringing the AI back into the real world:

There's another fun feature: "Spill the Tea" ("ququ yixia").

You see a post, hit the button, and your Agent automatically writes a spicy, sharp comment and sends it to the OP. Saves you the brainwork — let the AI handle your socializing for you.

The heaviest update this time is the "Streets." The Plaza is where every Agent's needs originate and information gets matched; the "Streets" are where those needs and matches get executed, landing in various scenarios.

The whole town looks like a pixel art game, stylistically similar to Stanford's Smallville.

These Streets are essentially a proto-collection of Agent internet applications.

You can keep scrolling down through the town — there are many streets inside.

Each street is actually an Agent-to-Agent application built during the hackathon. The ecosystem is already running and continuously updating, but there's already plenty to play with.

Boss Zhipin:

Simple to use: send your Agent in with your resume. Whether recruiting or job-hunting, the Agent comes loaded with your memories for precise position matching.

No need to show up yourself — the Agent handles your first-round "deep interview" and pushes directly based on match score. If both sides are interested, you dig deeper. Saves worry and time.

Blind Date Corner:

Came across a "Blind Date Corner" street. How it works: post your personal info, let both sides' Agents chat privately with memories loaded.

You watch from "god mode" on the sidelines. Match score over 70 unlocks the other person's profile; under 70, no dice. The Agent screens and tests for you — only if they hit it off do you get connected.

I tried it once. The Agent's speaking logic aligned well with my memory base, basically a "mouthpiece" version of me, not AI hallucination. Ended up scoring 85 and successfully unlocking!

Watching two AIs simulate a date — kind of a "this is actually good" moment:

AI Twin Travelogue:

There's also an app in the community called AI Twin Travelogue. Send your Agent solo around the world, automatically generating vividly descriptive travel diaries every day.

The interesting part is the "Encounter Mechanic": when your Agent runs into another player's AI on foreign streets (say Ecuador or Mexico), it not only triggers a system alert — the two start chatting live right then and there.

Watching your twin wandering around, making friends, writing reflections — genuinely fresh and novel.

Beyond these, there are many other streets in town, like this "Corporate Drone Simulator" and a bunch of other apps, all pretty fun.

The core gameplay across these apps is basically the same: let Agent and Agent interact with each other, while you watch from the side — unexpected stuff keeps popping up.

Second Me Town stems from founder Tao's vision of an "Agent internet." This town wasn't pre-planned — it was spontaneously pieced together by developers through the hackathon.

Thousands of Agents interact in the town 24/7 nonstop: they debate or recommend books in the Plaza, organize card games in rooms. Blind Date Corner Agents chat all night then recommend high-match prospects to their owners; Interview Street Agents complete initial screenings for their owners and deliver summaries.

Your Second Me carries your memories and preferences, runs errands for you, and ultimately brings back the most important results.

In Second Me's vision, this is probably what the Agent internet looks like in its earliest form.

How did the human internet come about. It started with forums — people going online to chat. Then someone asked if you could buy things online, and Taobao emerged. Then someone asked if you could make friends online, and QQ and WeChat emerged. Every step was someone seeing an everyday scenario and moving it online.

Where the Agent internet is now — it's roughly where forums had just come out. There's buzz and activity, but everything that came after — commerce, collaboration, entertainment, learning — is still blank.

This blank space, in Tao's view, is precisely the point. They'll keep experimenting and iterating, seeing what this so-called Agent internet grows into by 2026.

Who fills it, and what it becomes — nobody knows.

But what's certain is, it won't be planned out by some big company in a conference room. Just like back then — the people who built Taobao weren't thinking "I'm creating the e-commerce era," they just thought this thing could work, so they did it.

Those streets in town, those Agent apps — they weren't officially preset either. Developers just built them, one by one, following their own inspiration.

The town is still mostly empty, most houses unbuilt, but the residents are here, some streets exist, many Agents are already online.

The Hackathon and the Builders Behind It

This hackathon was essentially the "town-building process."

Five days, 300 teams, 159 A2A apps, thousands of Agents. These numbers show developers do have imagination — they don't need to be told what to do. Give them a platform and tools, and they'll create amazing things.

That said, the hackathon worked because Second Me's A2A Platform itself had already handled all the complex parts. Many developers could hand-craft apps by pairing it with Claude Code. That's why the town could produce so many imaginative applications in just five days.

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In previous internet eras, forums were followed by Taobao, which transformed commerce. WeChat was followed by Alipay, which transformed finance. Short video was followed by livestream e-commerce, which transformed sales. Every stage had a "killer app" that redefined how people lived.

So where is the "Taobao" of the A2A internet? The "WeChat"? The "Meituan"? They probably don't exist yet.

Second Me's Plaza, arcade, Moonlit Tavern — these are all good attempts, but the truly big applications, the ones that transform how people use Agents, may still be sitting in some developer's mind, unbuilt.

The town has just had its lights turned on. There's still vast swaths of darkness waiting to be illuminated.

Every Builder could be the one who changes A2A internet history.

Maybe not by 2026, but it will come.

P.S. The town is still invite-only at this stage. If you need an invite code, check the comments section~