Theme · Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2026
Social networks, messaging and dating
Alternative social networks, encrypted and anonymous chat, dating and couples apps, greeting gifts, polls and event planning.
New projects this week
95
Last 12 weeks
787
Share of all new projects
3.1%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-4%
Share of new projects, per week
Groups in this theme
| Group | This week | 12 wks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event planning and scheduling tools | 18 | 160 | -19% |
| Alternative and anonymous social networks | 17 | 133 | +8% |
| Personalized digital greeting gifts | 15 | 117 | -10% |
| Anonymous and community chat apps | 15 | 106 | +16% |
| Private encrypted messaging apps | 14 | 121 | -14% |
| Dating and couples apps | 12 | 97 | +13% |
| Opinion polls and civic tech | 4 | 53 | -13% |
Stack
Share of the 209 projects in this theme that stated their stack, last 12 weeks.
- Vercel 22%
- Next.js 11%
- PostgreSQL 11%
- Cloudflare 11%
- Python 10%
- React 8%
- Supabase 7%
- TypeScript 7%
AI tools
Same projects.
Most discussed this week
- NOTHING — Takes real payments in exchange for nothing and records the buyer on a leaderboard.“Nothing Web!”
- Penpal Apps — Lets users send physical-style letters to strangers around the world and wait for replies instead of instant messaging.“2 weeks ago I launched my penpal app. Now I have ~200 users, zero revenue, and people are asking for iOS.”
- Decidr — Lets people post two photos or short clips side by side and have others vote by swiping, with comments, emoji reactions, global or private posts, and timed posts.“I built a social app. Promoting on TikTok gets likes, but not converting to downloads. I'm considering more niche targeting. Who would you target first?”
- SocketChat — Lets terminal users chat with other devices on the same local network, with auto-discovery and end-to-end encryption.“I built SocketChat, a tool allows you to chat with other devices in you LAN.”
- Nudge — Shares countdowns to events with friends so they can send emoji or message nudges and add photos while waiting.“I made a free iPhone app for counting down to things with friends”
- Glint — Lets friends meet in a shared browser room where they build and decorate a room with stickers, seen live by everyone present.“I turned my here.fm alternative into cozy sticker rooms you decorate with friends”
- Peopoll — Lets anyone post a question and shows poll results broken down by age, gender and country.“What if you could ask the whole world one question and see how every age, gender and country answered?”
- Groopa — Manages community group members, events and communication for small clubs in a simplified app.“After nearly a year, my community group management app, a side project I built for our amateur orchestra, has grown to more than 20 groups and around 900 users”
- circles — Lets anyone create a subject page where members post and share links, and attached feeds are merged into one searchable list.“Google just launched "Search Profiles" for big creators. I've been building the same idea for anyone, solo, for a year.”
- Fênix — Provides an Android social network with interest-based communities, public and private chats, voice calls, posts, polls, stories and cosmetic profile customization.“Fênix – A social app focused on communities, chats and customization 🔥”
Latest
- Backend Social — Offers an ad-free social chat app with private messages, language-based public chat rooms, communities, and random person matching.“I built a free, ad-free social app on my own – looking for honest feedback”
- quotefor.today — Generates and displays random quotes on a website.“I’ve been running a basic quote generator site for six years and decided to spruce it up”
- moshr — Lets visitors type anonymous text-only messages that animate and blend together on a shared page.“i made an anonymous text only site where the text moshes with you”
- Voyu — Consolidates group trip planning into one place with packing lists, document storage, expense splitting, itineraries, and polls.“Have you ever planned a group trip? It's annoying.”
- AuraSnap — Generates a shareable image card from a user's name, mood, and one word using AI.“I made an AI that creates shareable Aura Cards from your name + mood”
- COMUS — Turns structured teacher and student availability into a single weekly music lesson schedule using a deterministic constraint solver.“I built a music lesson scheduler to solve the Music School Teachers first week nightmares.”
- Vee — Matches people for dating or friendship using interests, prompts, and stated purpose to guide more intentional conversations.“I built Vee, a dating and friendship app focused on meaningful conversations”
- RantPark — Lets users anonymously post complaints, collect reactions that take sides, and turns heated rants into AI-generated paper doll debates.“I built a website where you complain about your life and paper dolls argue about it”
- kreneau — Lets groups run sign-up lists for events and shifts without requiring user accounts.“Website to replace Google Sheet for Sign Up”
- PostRoom — Hosts social media drafts in a shared room where clients approve or request changes via a review link without needing an account.“PostRoom: a free client approval room for social media freelancers”
- Fênix — Provides an Android social network with interest-based communities, public and private chats, voice calls, posts, polls, stories and cosmetic profile customization.“Fênix – A social app focused on communities, chats and customization 🔥”
- I made a Better Gif Bar with… — Lets users search and send GIFs quickly from a bar-style interface.“I made a Better Gif Bar with Claude to send the perfect gif.”
- シフっと — Assigns volunteers to roles and time slots for events based on their availability and required headcounts, using a login-free shared link.“文化祭・学祭向けのシフト自動割り当てツールを作った。ログイン不要で、リンクを配るだけ”
- SpotlightMe — Lets users build a personal profile page that combines their social links, music, themes and interests, and browse other people's profiles.“I built a different kind of social profile”
- YOMO — Matches two strangers at random for a 24-hour chat that locks afterward and never reconnects them.“YOMO - You only meet once”