00 · the premise

POP Chat

messaging without the number.

pop chat starts with a handle, not a phone number. pick a name and start talking — the digits never enter the form.

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one field to sign up · no number collected

01 · identity

a number is not an identity.

most messengers treat your phone number as the account. pop chat treats it as optional — because for a lot of people, handing over a number was the exact part they wanted to skip.

what we ask for

  • handlerequired
  • phone numbernot required
  • carrier / simnot required

what we don’t build

no “people you may know” scraped from your address book, and no number-based discovery. your contacts stay on your phone, where they already were.

what leaving looks like

no number tied to the account means no number attached to a delete request. remove the handle, take the messages with you.

02 · the thread

what crosses the wire, and what doesn’t.

your handle and your messages travel. your phone number stays at the edge, and that is the whole trick.

  • @handle · sent
  • message · carried
  • thread · opened
  • +1 555… · held
the delivery path for one message, annotated
  1. 01

    get pop chat

    install it and open it. there is no sim prompt waiting on the first screen.

  2. 02

    pick a handle

    choose the name people will know you by. that single field is the whole account.

  3. 03

    start talking

    share the handle, open a thread, and the rest of the product stays out of the way.

03 · at a glance

the short version.

phone numbernot required
account identityhandle you choose
sign-up formone field, no mobile entry
finding peopleby handle
contact discoveryoff, and not a setting
core jobtext people you already know

04 · on screen

the product, in frame.

these three frames are placeholders — drop the real pop chat captures in when they’re ready.

screenshot slot home
01 — threads
screenshot slot chat
02 — conversation
screenshot slot sign-up
03 — handle sign-up

05 · get it

POP Chat

your number stays yours.

get pop chat, pick a handle, and text people without handing over a phone number.

get pop chat