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Just talk, and the apps your group or friends needs appear in the chat. "We're 4 friends training for a marathon, build us a tracker" becomes a real app: leaderboard, streaks, a $500 pot, and the AI poking whoever skips a run. Shared software, generated on the fly: native iOS UI, one live state for the whole chat, zero setup. Full-blown social apps, not widgets. We're starting with fitness. A real messenger. Free.
Hey Product Hunt!
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.
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@curiouskitty A bot in iMessage drops text into a feed it doesn't control. A tracker app lives somewhere else and someone has to keep it alive. In bonds the chat itself becomes the app: it knows who's in the group and what you decided, it renders as native UI in the thread, and it changes as you keep talking. And it's not one app, every group ends up with its own world with its own social stuff, rules and inside jokes, instead of a pile of apps and screenshots.
The tradeoff is that your friends have to be on bonds. We're not asking anyone to move their whole life over, just to start a bonds chat when the group needs to build something together. If groups build once and go back to WhatsApp, we're wrong and we'll know fast.
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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!!!
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?
@jessicaestepa Fitness is the door, not the vision. Once a group has its space, the apps get real: a trip app where the itinerary fills in as flights get shared, splits the costs and tracks who hasn't paid. A secret birthday op with the plan, the budget and the tasks, hidden from the birthday girl. A recap built out of 200 photos. A game made from your own inside jokes. Every group ends up with its own world because every group is different. What would yours build first?
@juanchoabdon For sure recommendations space
It seems very cool and useful. What is the max of people in the groupchat? And at some point will it be able to be applied to larger communities? I think it would be nice to have this platform for communities with common goals, having small chats for friends that also are part of the community.
How nice! Is there a limit for apps per chat or something like that? It would be cool if the goals archieved were to be displayed on the profile, adding some kind of roles to the chat based on the historial of apps. Will download!
nice, is the android version coming soon? i'd really like to try it!
@luca_ardito not yet, but as soon it's out will ping you!