We built bonds because of two things happening in our group chats at once: we were running fitness challenges with friends over iMessage and WhatsApp (photos of the gym, someone keeping the tally by hand, the whole thing dying by week two), and those same friends had started building artifacts/light webapps in Claude and ChatGPT and pasting the links into the chat to share a tracker, a poll, a trip split.
Apps made in a minute, shared in a chat that had no idea they existed. If AI can build software on demand, and our lives already live in group chats, the chat itself should be where the software appears. Not a link someone pastes. Not a bot. So we built the messenger we'd invent today.
Here's how it works:
1. Chat with your friends like always 2. When the chat needs an app, the AI generates it right there — say "30 days of gym, who's in?" and the chat gets a challenge: check in with a photo, the streak updates for everyone, the AI nudges whoever goes quiet 3. It's shared software: one live state for the whole chat, native on iOS, zero setup
We're starting with fitness challenges because that's where "let's do this" dies fastest in a normal chat. Built by three friends who've been shipping together for over 10 years, no employees, we write the code ourselves. iOS, free, live today, and still early — rough edges included.
Feedback is super welcome. Try it with one real group and tell us what felt magic and what felt off. For the builders here: ask us anything about the generative UI, why native over web, and how we keep the AI from becoming the annoying member of the group. We'll be in the comments all day, or write me at juandi@bonds.chat.
PH 用户
I think this solves a very real problem. In my friends’ group chat, we talk about everything: recommendations, trip plans, organizing each other’s birthdays, splitting expenses, spilling the tea… having all of that scattered across a single chat is honestly crazy, especially for girls with 300+ messages a day 😭
Could bonds eventually help organize all of this too, or is the vision more focused on fitness challenges?
PH 用户
the fitness challenge example feels very relatable. I’ve seen these things start with a lot of excitement and then disappear after a week because nobody wants to maintain the tracker.
PH 用户
The idea of apps appearing inside a group chat is pretty interesting to me. My group chats already contain polls, lists, screenshots, and random trackers anyway.
PH 用户
Hey! I’m really excited to be building this with my friends around a problem we all felt ourselves!! For me, it really clicked when we realized two things:
(1) We already use AI everyday to think, work and build, but everytime we wanted to build something that involved my friends, there was still a lot of friction. Sending links, artifacts, TestFlight, explaining how to use it… most people around me are not living inside Claude or ChatGPT.
(2) At the same time, we realized we already use group chats for way more than just texting. We plan trips, organize things, track stuff, make decisions, share memories… but somehow we still force all of that into the same text bubbles.
Those two things clicked for me. What if the chat itself could have the intelligence and software, without making my friends learn a new way of doing things?
That’s what excites me the most about bonds. Still super early, happy to discuss or be challenged on any of it!!!
We built bonds because of two things happening in our group chats at once: we were running fitness challenges with friends over iMessage and WhatsApp (photos of the gym, someone keeping the tally by hand, the whole thing dying by week two), and those same friends had started building artifacts/light webapps in Claude and ChatGPT and pasting the links into the chat to share a tracker, a poll, a trip split.
Apps made in a minute, shared in a chat that had no idea they existed. If AI can build software on demand, and our lives already live in group chats, the chat itself should be where the software appears. Not a link someone pastes. Not a bot. So we built the messenger we'd invent today.
Here's how it works:
1. Chat with your friends like always
2. When the chat needs an app, the AI generates it right there — say "30 days of gym, who's in?" and the chat gets a challenge: check in with a photo, the streak updates for everyone, the AI nudges whoever goes quiet
3. It's shared software: one live state for the whole chat, native on iOS, zero setup
We're starting with fitness challenges because that's where "let's do this" dies fastest in a normal chat. Built by three friends who've been shipping together for over 10 years, no employees, we write the code ourselves. iOS, free, live today, and still early — rough edges included.
Feedback is super welcome. Try it with one real group and tell us what felt magic and what felt off. For the builders here: ask us anything about the generative UI, why native over web, and how we keep the AI from becoming the annoying member of the group. We'll be in the comments all day, or write me at juandi@bonds.chat.
Could bonds eventually help organize all of this too, or is the vision more focused on fitness challenges?
(1) We already use AI everyday to think, work and build, but everytime we wanted to build something that involved my friends, there was still a lot of friction. Sending links, artifacts, TestFlight, explaining how to use it… most people around me are not living inside Claude or ChatGPT.
(2) At the same time, we realized we already use group chats for way more than just texting. We plan trips, organize things, track stuff, make decisions, share memories… but somehow we still force all of that into the same text bubbles.
Those two things clicked for me. What if the chat itself could have the intelligence and software, without making my friends learn a new way of doing things?
That’s what excites me the most about bonds. Still super early, happy to discuss or be challenged on any of it!!!