Random chat
Matched with someone new in seconds. Do not like it? Skip. There is no queue to sit in, no profile to browse, and nothing to lose by moving on.
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- Matched in seconds. One round trip, not a polling loop.
- Skip freely. A visible button in the chat itself, not buried in a menu.
- No swiping, no browsing. Random means random.
- Works on any phone. No app store, no install, no permissions.
The case for randomness
Every other way of meeting people online has become a filtering exercise. You browse, you sort, you rule out. It is efficient and it is why so much of it feels like shopping.
Random chat is the opposite trade. You get no information and no choice, and in exchange you get the one thing curation destroys: the possibility of somebody you would never have selected. Most of them will not be for you. That is the cost of admission, and the skip button is what makes the cost survivable.
What to say first
This is the part people freeze on, so here is the measured answer rather than the intuitive one. We compared opening styles across 9,854 real conversations:
| Opener | Median length | Reached 10+ |
|---|---|---|
| Greeting + question | 38 messages | 77% |
| Question only | 35 messages | 83% |
| Greeting only | 32 messages | 79% |
| Sexual opener | 21 messages | 66% |
Note what is not in that table: cleverness. Nobody's median improved because they were witty. "hey, what are you up to" performs about as well as anything ever does, and it takes two seconds to type.
Skipping is a feature, not a failure
New users often feel they owe a stranger a conversation. They do not, and the data says nobody else thinks they do either — 86.7% of conversations end with somebody simply vanishing.
So we put the skip button in the chat footer where you can see it, rather than hiding it to inflate a session-length metric. A platform that makes leaving awkward is optimising for the wrong number. You will have a better time here if you move on quickly and often, and we would rather you have a better time.
How the matching works
When you enter, you either match immediately with someone already waiting, or you wait and the next person matches with you. There is no algorithm ranking you, no score, no queue position that a paid tier lets you jump for a fee in the free product.
Practically, that means the wait is a function of how many people are online, and nothing else. We do not inflate an online counter to make the room look busier than it is — a number that always says the same thing tells you nothing, and you would work it out within a week anyway.
Questions people actually ask
- How fast does it match?
- If somebody is waiting, immediately. If not, you wait until the next person arrives. There is no artificial delay and no queue to buy your way out of.
- Can I choose who I match with?
- Not in random chat — that is what makes it random. Filters are a paid feature precisely because they are the opposite of the free product, not a crippled version of it.
- What should I say first?
- A greeting plus one question. In our corpus that produced the longest conversations, at a median of 38 messages, with 77% getting past the ten-message mark. Short and ordinary beats clever.
- Is there a limit on how many times I can skip?
- No. Skip as often as you like.