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(Un)random Companion

Send a message to a stranger, get one back, learn nothing about them

Called «(Не)случайный собеседник» in Telegram. A bot for anonymous exchange: your voice note, photo or text goes into a shared pool and reaches someone else, who can reply — and the reply can be replied to, so a whole conversation happens without either side having a handle on the other. Every delivered message can be marked spam, liked or disliked, and the delivery query weights the pool by those reactions.

Shipped
Role
Author
Period
Mar 2021 — Oct 2022
the loop
you send
text, voice, photo or a video note — it goes into the shared pool
someone receives
a stranger gets it, with no idea who wrote it
they swipe-reply
the reply reaches you, and can be replied to in turn
spam / like / dislike
every delivery can be rated, and the pool is weighted by it
/get
pull the next message yourself

Anonymity is easy; keeping an anonymous pool worth reading is not. The ranking loop — spam pushes a message out of rotation, likes pull it back in — is the whole product.