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Small group chats around shared interests

GC

A web-first social app built around small, lasting group conversations: describe an interest in your own words, get a few understandable group suggestions, and choose where to join.

Status
In development
Started
For
App · Adults · Runs on your own devices
Runs on
Web first; iOS and Android later
Built with
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Supabase, FFmpeg media worker

Not released yet. This page follows it as it's built.

A GC design concept: a search for interests and open groups such as Design Talk, Plant People and Indie Builders

The project

About GC

GC, short for groupchat, uses AI to take the friction out of finding people while leaving social choices, publishing and consequential safety decisions with people. It is planned for adults in the United States, on the web first and then on iOS and Android. Its features are built and tested locally; hosting and launch checks are next. The images here are design concepts.

interest matching · small groups · AI with human decisions

Learning by building

Questions it’s working on

  1. Group suggestions people can understand, rather than an opaque feed.
  2. Where AI should help and where people should decide.
  3. Media processing and safety boundaries for a social product.

A look inside

A GC design concept for finding groups by interest
Design concept: finding a group by interest.
A GC design concept of a group conversation called Design Talk
Design concept: a small group conversation.
Gigi, a glassy bubble mascot with a small smile
Design concept: Gigi, GC's guide.

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