Connect — A social platform for real conversation

01 Mobile product iOS — July 2026

A social platform built
for real conversation.

Connect is a modern social platform where people share posts, stories and debates around real content. It puts interaction ahead of consumption. React, discuss, change your mind, instead of just scrolling.

Clean, immersive design throughout. Connect turns social media back into a place for expression, conversation and engagement that means something.

Platform iOS at launch · Android soon

Release July 1 · 2026

Countdown —

01 · Home

A real-time feed where posts, stories and reactions live together.

02 · Story

Stories that fade in twenty-four hours. Replies stay tied to the moment they were sent about.

03 · Profile

Identity built for expression, not for metrics.

02 Debates For / Against · AI-tagged

Debates with a tag agent behind the feed.

Three to five taxonomy slugs written onto every debate by a small reasoning agent. A sibling-topic graph sends each one to the people who actually care about it.

01 · Center

The debate centre. Every open topic in one grid.

02 · Vote

For / Against, voted live. Sides rebalance every hour.

03 · Detail

Topic detail, with the debates fanned out from sibling topics.

04 · Thread

Reactions in the thread. Comments open, capped at 280 characters.

03 Interests & Learn Adaptive quizzes · 3-5 questions

Pick what you care about.
Learn while you watch.

You tell us your interests once, from a shared taxonomy. The feed adapts. Then at the end of every video, a short quiz helps you actually keep what you watched.

01 · Interests

Pick your interests. No hashtags to invent. Just a shared taxonomy that drives the feed and the debate tagger.

02 · Player

The embedded video player. Videos come in from YouTube, Vimeo or direct links.

03 · Quiz

At the end of the video, a quiz built by the AI. Three to five questions, no padding.

04 · Answer

Adaptive answers. The next quiz adjusts difficulty based on how the last one went.

04 Explore Map · mood signals

Find people near you.
Reply to a mood, not a profile.

The map shows the people around you with their latest mood signal. One tap and you reply to the mood directly, without going through the profile dance.

01 · Map

A user shows up on the map. Rough distance, recent mood.

02 · Reply

You reply to their mood. No friend request, no blocked DM. Just a line, opened.

05 Chat Voice · music · private

Conversations, as private as they should be.

Text, voice messages, and music sharing from your iTunes library. No read receipts unless you both want them. No presence ping unless you turn it on. Media expires by default after a week.

Voice: Record and scrub playback
Music: Share tracks from your library
Media: Auto-expires after seven days
Presence: Off by default, your choice

06 Offline On-device · no servers

When the network drops,
a small room opens.

Four games. No accounts, no servers, no scores beyond what's on the screen. They run when the rest of the app can't.

01 · Net.

Rotate to mend the network. An endless procedural grid, rooted in the Connect mark.

02 · Tide.

Breathe with a stranger. Clinical-grade resonance pacer at 6 BPM.

03 · Spin.

A wheel that ratchets under your thumb. Truth or dare, two to ten around one phone.

04 · Faker.

One of you knows nothing. Drawing imposter game for four to ten on one phone.

07 AI Tools, not features

AI does the boring work.

Six places where the AI runs, in the background. None of them are marketed as features. It's just maintenance, done better.

AI doesn't make the conversations. It cleans the floor between them.

Stack: Groq agents on llama-3.3-70b for reasoning. OpenAI text-embedding-3-small for retrieval. Custom sanitisers on every output. Everything runs server-side, no models on-device.

01 Search.

Natural-language search across the whole feed.

"Debates from last week about urban design where someone changed their mind." The query runs on the same embedding model that ranks the home feed, so what you ask for and what gets surfaced share a vocabulary.

EmbeddingsVector storeRe-rank
02 Report triage.

Every report runs through an agent first.

It tags severity (low / mid / urgent), categorises (harassment / spam / impersonation / threat), pre-fills a summary, and routes to the right reviewer. Time-to-action drops from days to under an hour for urgent cases.

Severity taggingRoutingPre-fillHuman-in-loop
03 Verify.

A small fact-check pipeline behind quoted claims.

Statements that look quoted ("according to the WHO, 75% of...") get cross-referenced against a knowledge base. Posts get a small chip on the side: verified, disputed, or no evidence. The reader decides what to do with it. No auto-removal.

Claim extractionCross-refConfidence chip
04 Tag the debates.

Three to five taxonomy slugs on every debate.

Written by a Groq agent on llama-3.3-70b, from the same set that drives your interests. A sibling-topic graph fans the post out to adjacent rooms. No hashtags, no guessing what to call your topic.

llama-3.3-70bTaxonomySibling graph
05 Quiz the videos.

Adaptive quizzes from shorts and shared links.

Channel shorts and shared links produce three to five question quizzes. Each question goes through a strict sanitiser to avoid drift onto things the source didn't actually say. The next quiz adjusts to how the last one went.

AdaptiveSanitiser3-5 questions
06 Mood pair.

On the Explore map, mood signals come from your recent posts.

The matcher weighs complementary moods, not just distance. The result is fewer awkward openers and more conversations that have somewhere to go.

Mood inferenceMatcherLocal only

08 Pricing Optional · cancel anytime

Connect Pro. Same app,
with room to move.

Ads keep the free tier free. Pro turns them off and opens the parts that need a bit more room. Nothing essential lives behind the paywall.

Free€0

All
Stories, Debates, Tide, Spotlight
Every core feature. Native, interstitial and house ads support the work.
All
The offline four
Net, Tide, Spin, Faker. On-device, identical on both tiers.
All
DMs & voice messages
Direct messages with voice record and scrub.
All
Adaptive video quizzes
Three to five questions, no padding, no streaks.

Pro€4.99/mo

No ads
Nothing in your feed
No native, no interstitial, no app-open ads, no house promos.
More
Higher upload limits
Bigger stories and posts. More room for what you're making.
Early
Early access
New features land in beta on Pro accounts first.
Badge
Small Pro badge
Optional. Off by default.

09 The maker Solo · Paris

Mahdi Saiah portrait — Mahdi Saiah · Paris

A small social app, made by one person, on purpose.

Built by Mahdi, in Paris. No team, no pitch deck, no public roadmap. One careful thing at a time. Connect is a Flutter app on iOS and Android, with Supabase as the backend and a small set of Groq agents doing the AI work.

Based in: Paris, France
Origin: Sousse, Tunisia
Languages: FR · EN · AR
Status: Launching July 1, 2026

10 Reach out Stay in touch

Talk about the project, or wait for launch.

The app ships July 1, 2026. Until then, write if you've got a question, or follow the project on the links below.

Info connectappfr@gmail.com → LinkedIn mahdi-saïah ↗ GitHub @mahdisaiah/connect ↗ Portfolio mahdisaiah.github.io ↗

Connect.

A social platform built for real conversation.

Debates with a tag agent behind the feed.

Pick what you care about. Learn while you watch.

Find people near you. Reply to a mood, not a profile.

Conversations, as private as they should be.

When the network drops, a small room opens.

AI does the boring work.

Natural-language search across the whole feed.

Every report runs through an agent first.

A small fact-check pipeline behind quoted claims.

Three to five taxonomy slugs on every debate.

Adaptive quizzes from shorts and shared links.

On the Explore map, mood signals come from your recent posts.

Connect Pro. Same app, with room to move.