chertlabs:~$ ./chert

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chertlabs:~$ cat about

an experimental product lab from chert.

we build games and apps that live inside facetime and imessage. no app to download: you text a number, or you call it.

direct to consumer. small, strange, and made by a few people.

chertlabs:~$ ls products/

  • autophobia/a week-long psychological horror over text and facetime. six new friends. call any of them.
  • kyu/someone to text. honestly. a companion that lives in your messages.
  • strangers/call a number on facetime. talk to a stranger.
  • together/group facetime, streamed and in sync: camera grid, broadcast, watch party.

chertlabs:~$ cat contact

platform → trychert.com

code → github.com/chertlabs

chertlabs:~$