Humans are social creatures. We crave bonding and social connections. In our digital world, our<br>common social space is a campfire, which is the group chat.<br>It starts out something like this:

That's roughly what it has looked like since the 90's.<br>Roomy uses a familiar structure because we believe group chat is the minimum-viable-everything<br>of community building.<br>Chatting is like a pencil sketch; we express the first thought that comes to mind without<br>dwelling on straightened lines.

Building for and with communities. Narrated by Jaydip Sanghani

In search of structure<br>The thing about group chat is that it wants conversation to keep moving. It's like a river,<br>always flowing forward.<br>Structurally, old school forums just worked better for this reason. All of the relevant<br>conversations were grouped together by topics listed orderly in index boards.<br>Each conversation on forums is contained under a topic. This seemingly simple design choice<br>curates info really nicely.<br>Modern Discord is not meaningfully better at knowledge-management. For groups engaged in<br>knowledge work, revisiting conversation is important.<br>Thought starts the chain which creates a flourishing foray of plantlife. Thought starts the chain which creates a flourishing foray of plantlife.<br>When larger spaces of discourse grow more complex, Roomy's UI opens up gradually, keeping<br>everything orderly. We can simply create a thread and keep chatting.

we're proud of this 🥹 A few existing community apps exist in this paradigm already. Where Roomy differs is in being an<br>atmospheric web application.

Welcome to the Atmosphere<br>A better way to understand this is how Big Tech handles our data. All of our data is tighly<br>coupled to the platform.

Now, imagine you stopped using your favorite microblogging platform and moved to a different<br>one. It kept all your posts, pictures, and followers intact. That would be amazing, no?

That's exactly what you can do using Bluesky, an atproto alternative with 45 Million users.<br>Roomy aims to solve the problem that larger real-time communication platforms face: portable<br>data that doesn't care about where you come from.

Roomy gives you a way to design your community while tinkering with apps you like from the<br>ecosystem, providing the tools to build and cultivate your community.<br>Oh, and did we mention that you can use one account for all of this?

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