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The chat stays
Persistent private channels keep the context around, even when the conversation wanders somewhere beautifully unnecessary.
Opening field journal
Ayush Rameja / Independent product
P1 / Bakbak
Private beta
Bakbak for desktop
Your small room for big conversations.
P1.1 / What lives inside
Familiar tools, deliberately smaller.
Bakbak keeps the useful parts of a community app and removes the audience-building machinery. No discovery feed. No follower count. Just the people who already know the lore.
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Drop in, no calendar
See who is around, join a voice room, and turn on video only when the moment calls for actual facial expressions.
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One shared soundboard
Trigger the same hosted sounds for everyone in the room, because timing is an important branch of engineering.
P1.2 / Access model
Designed for 5–10 friends
The download is open. The room is still private.
Anyone can install Bakbak, but joining requires a single-use invite from the person hosting the room.
Private channels, member-only rooms, and no public user discovery keep the social surface intentionally small.
P1.3 / Download desk
Bring the room with you.
Downloading is open. Joining a private Bakbak room still requires a single-use invite from its host.
Private beta / invite required
Recommended download
Choose Bakbak for your desktop
Bakbak currently ships for Apple Silicon Macs, Intel Macs, and Windows x64.
Latest / v0.3.0
No automatic download was selected for this device. Open all releases from a supported desktop to choose an installer.
First launch on macOS
The beta is not notarized yet. If macOS blocks the first launch, Control-click Bakbak, choose Open, then confirm once.
First launch on Windows
The beta is not code-signed yet. Windows SmartScreen may ask you to choose More info, then Run anyway.