Covalent

Hi Product Hunters! I’m Arek, the project lead for Covalent. We’re a team of nine undergraduate students based at UCLA. After months of hard work, we’re very excited to launch on Product Hunt today 🚀 We’ve all experienced the struggle of awkward silences in online conversations. As students, we’ve especially felt how hard it can be to meet new people in a remote setting. That’s why we built Covalent—to ditch awkwardness and make remote team bonding experiences more meaningful. With Covalent, we’re taking your favorite in-person icebreakers and turning them into interactive, online games that can be used alongside your Zoom calls. We also have a built-in video feed integrated into our games to personalize the experience. For today’s launch, we’ve released our version of Two Truths and A Lie. Getting started is easy: (1) Find a friend (2) Visit our website @ https://covalent.app (3) Click on “Start Bonding” (4) Click “Host” then “Play” In the future, we’ll be launching an online version of “20 Questions” and will be building out native applications beyond our web-only app. This has been an incredible learning experience for our team, and we're still learning a lot. We’d love to hear your feedback! What games and features do you want to see on our platform next? Twitter: https://twitter.com/covalentapp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/covale...

This is awesome! Great stuff, Arek and team. Are there custom questions we can add to these games?

This is amazing! I enjoyed having Covalent for our ACM Design meetings, with the demonstrations lead by @muthu_pal, because it allowed us to get to know our 14 interns much better very quickly! I expect great things to come of this :)

Awesome idea, I can see this becoming a huge thing. Ice-breakers are a great idea, and I think in the virtual world it’s even more important but less common!

Looks fantastic! Congrats on shipping. Looking forward to hosting some ice breakers soon. Question: are you looking to add other games as well?

Congratulations on the launch! Would love to hear, what made you choose two truths and a lie as your first released game?

Ugh, the amount of awkward zoom ice breakers this could have saved if only we had it sooner! Such a good idea! @arek_der_sarkissian I'm excited to see where you take this!