Alfi, the first chat app with social skills, for bringing friends together. We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen in real time. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, a lot more often. You can now book restaurants together with your friends. Create a social calendar. Make fun wild images together in the same chat. Set reminders for date night. Customize your own Alfi, and get group chat wrapped!
I'm Rushi, CEO & co-founder of Alfi. We're launching the first chat app with social skills, built to bring friends together.
💡 The Problem
Gen Z is leaving social media. But they're not going offline. They're retreating to group chats, smaller spaces where they're honestly themselves. People are still using 2010 utilities like WhatsApp and Messenger to manage their 2026 social life.
The problem? Group chats are where plans go to die. Someone has to be "the planner" or nothing happens.
Alfi fixes that.
💙 Meet Alfi
Alfi is your new social friend. The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together. Alfi also has a proprietary framework that knows when to talk (and when not to). We taught Alfi… social skills! No commands required.
It doesn’t simply process but understands context, group dynamics, and whether you’re actually asking for help or just chatting with friends.
Here's what that looks like:
Book restaurants together, with Yelp built in(exclusive partnership), directly in the chat. No more "where should we go?" spirals. Reserve instantly.
Create images with your friends: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind.
Social calendar: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone is on the same page. No more managing separate cals.
Group Wrapped: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know. Something we all have wanted for the longest time!
Reminders & Memory: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually stay connected.
Customize your Alfi: Customize how Alfi responds, creates, and helps to fit in with your group’s style. Custom AI for each chat.
Of course, you have your solo Alfi too! The group chat is simply sacred.
🌍 Why This Matters We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, and a lot more often.
🔄 The Journey Here
We had first built text.ai, our AI that lives inside SMS, WhatsApp, and Telegram. With near-zero marketing:
10M+ messages processed
100K users across 150+ countries
Growth driven almost entirely by word of mouth
But we learned something unexpected. People didn't just want answers. They wanted a social friend who understands their unique group and actually helps them hang out more.
So we built Alfi from scratch.
💬 What beta users are saying
"It reminds my bf when he forgets our Farmers Market dates. Finally, someone else keeping him in check 😏"
"We put ourselves in cute dresses together. So cute. I wanna buy now"
🌍 Why This Matters
We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, and a lot more often.
🙏 We'd love to hear from you:
What group would you add to Alfi first?
What feature would make this indispensable for your crew?
How many plans have died in your group chat?
Alfi is live now on iOS and Android. Available in 10+ languages.
I like the idea. But installing another messenger is a bit intimidating. Plus, no one would be on it, and getting friends to install it would be a problem. But if it were possible to register a bot and add it to shared hours in popular messengers, that would be very convenient. Then the bot could periodically suggest installing a separate app, motivating users with the fact that it has more features.
The restaurant booking in group chat is a smart addition - cuts out a lot of back-and-forth. How does the social calendar handle overlapping availability across different time zones?
Would this be able to take everyone's availability input and put together suggested times for meets? Trying to plan things when everyone has different work/kid schedules can be a lot to juggle and going back and forth
Love this framing — “group chats are where plans go to die” is painfully accurate 😅 Turning memory + planning into a social skill, not a command-based bot, feels like the right unlock. Curious to see how Alfi balances being helpful without interrupting the vibe — that’s the hard part you’re clearly leaning into. Congrats on the launch 🚀
Making wild images together in the same chat sounds like it would lead to some hilarious chaos! It’s like a creative playground for friends. I wonder if those images are generated by AI, and if we can save them into a shared gallery so we don't lose the funniest ones.
I totally agree that the group chat is where the real fun happens, so having an app that actually focuses on that is so cool. I’m really curious if the restaurant booking feature works smoothly with local places, or if it only supports big chains for now. That would save us so much back-and-forth!
Congrats on the launch! Treating the group chat as the real social network feels very on point, especially with planning friction being the core failure mode. How does Alfi decide when to step into a group chat versus staying silent, particularly across different group dynamics, without becoming intrusive or dominating the conversation?
Alfi looks fun, good work team! What are some of the next targets on your roadmap?
Learn, listen, build. After 10 months in the trenches of consumer AI we heard what our users wanted... unlocked access to AI as a social enabler, but in a premium chat experience. Hence Alfi. Dig in with your friends and family & tell us what you think!
Been using Alfi in our group chats and it’s honestly great. Arguing with it in savage mode is way too entertaining 😂 but it’s also clutch for handling all the logistics so one person isn’t stuck herding the group every single time.
The new group chat era begins now. Building Alfi was about figuring out how to make human connection effortless. It’s not just a chat app; it's the glue that will helps you hold your social life together. Can’t wait to see how your crews break it!
👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Rushi, CEO & co-founder of Alfi. We're launching the first chat app with social skills, built to bring friends together.
💡 The Problem
Gen Z is leaving social media. But they're not going offline. They're retreating to group chats, smaller spaces where they're honestly themselves. People are still using 2010 utilities like WhatsApp and Messenger to manage their 2026 social life.
The problem? Group chats are where plans go to die. Someone has to be "the planner" or nothing happens.
Alfi fixes that.
💙 Meet Alfi
Alfi is your new social friend. The one who remembers everything, plans effortlessly, and keeps the crew together. Alfi also has a proprietary framework that knows when to talk (and when not to). We taught Alfi… social skills! No commands required.
It doesn’t simply process but understands context, group dynamics, and whether you’re actually asking for help or just chatting with friends.
Here's what that looks like:
Book restaurants together, with Yelp built in(exclusive partnership), directly in the chat. No more "where should we go?" spirals. Reserve instantly.
Create images with your friends: drop your crew into funny hats, wild scenes, anything you can dream up. Multiplayer image gen, first of its kind.
Social calendar: upcoming hangs, all in one place. Everyone is on the same page. No more managing separate cals.
Group Wrapped: who's the chattiest? Top inside jokes? Now you'll know. Something we all have wanted for the longest time!
Reminders & Memory: Alfi remembers your spots, your preferences, and nudges you to actually stay connected.
Customize your Alfi: Customize how Alfi responds, creates, and helps to fit in with your group’s style. Custom AI for each chat.
Of course, you have your solo Alfi too! The group chat is simply sacred.
🌍 Why This Matters
We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, and a lot more often.
🔄 The Journey Here
We had first built text.ai, our AI that lives inside SMS, WhatsApp, and Telegram. With near-zero marketing:
10M+ messages processed
100K users across 150+ countries
Growth driven almost entirely by word of mouth
But we learned something unexpected. People didn't just want answers. They wanted a social friend who understands their unique group and actually helps them hang out more.
So we built Alfi from scratch.
💬 What beta users are saying
"It reminds my bf when he forgets our Farmers Market dates. Finally, someone else keeping him in check 😏"
"We put ourselves in cute dresses together. So cute. I wanna buy now"
🌍 Why This Matters
We believe the group chat is the real social network. Where the funniest moments and real conversations happen. With Alfi, we hope to bring you together more expressively, and a lot more often.
🙏 We'd love to hear from you:
What group would you add to Alfi first?
What feature would make this indispensable for your crew?
How many plans have died in your group chat?
Alfi is live now on iOS and Android. Available in 10+ languages.
👉 Download today: text.ai/app
With gratitude,
Rushi, Prahar, & Paras