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Build updates, design notes, the occasional thinking-out-loud post about why this app exists. No press releases, no growth-hacking, just the actual work.
BHOC highlighted a DudesChat feature that came out of its NiceAF research: a report stays possible for seven days after someone blocks you or deletes their account. Why a block should never decide whether harm can be reported.
Read →DudesChat is on Google Play from 12 October 2026: free, ad-free, every member a verified adult. Same login as the web app and the iPhone app.
Read →Faces are optional, but a face you see is real. Photos in a chat are taken live, never uploaded. Blocking never takes away your right to report. And where you are is an area, never a pin. Here's why we built it this way.
Read →DudesChat went live on the App Store on 30 September 2026. Nearly 900 Dudes signed up that day, almost 700 were approved by the next morning, and about 800 sign-ups since July have not passed review. The numbers, and what each one counts.
Read →DudesChat is on the App Store: free, ad-free, every member a verified adult. The cover winners are announced, founding tiers close today.
Read →The cover photo competition is decided. Who won, what they get, and why we asked for real faces in the first place.
Read →DudesChat is on the App Store for pre-order — release 30 September 2026. Founding prices end that day; from 1 October premium is CHF 19/month, 30/3 months or 99/year.
Read →DudesChat launched its public web beta on 30 July 2026. Five weeks later: more than 1,300 verified Dudes, over 700 of them in the last two weeks, all organic. Here's where things stand.
Read →The entries are in, the gallery is open, and until August 31 the community decides who's out front. No account needed — back as many Dudes as you like, one vote each.
Read →Someone harms you, then deletes their profile to disappear. On most apps that's the end of it. On DudesChat your chat stays, the report button still works, the evidence is preserved, and a real person reviews it.
Read →Languages, your taste in music, books, games and film, links to the rest of you, and a live "here's what I'm up for" mood. A profile built around who you are, not what you look like.
Read →You asked for a dedicated app — and begged us not to turn DN into a generic hookup app. Message received. Meet DudesChat: same community, pants on.
Read →Nearly 2,000 of you answered our app survey. Here's what you told us — and exactly how we're building DudesChat around your feedback.
Read →DudesNude and DudesChat are different products with different rules — which is exactly why your media doesn't just carry over from one to the other.
Read →The face of the launch is one of you. No models, just Dudes. Three weeks of submissions, one week of community vote, we get the last word.
Read →Our community turned 24 this year. The world moved onto the phone, so we did too. Here's what we're making — and what we're flatly refusing to make.
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