Bluesky’s Attie, the AI tool it introduced to build custom feeds, can now generate small social apps from a text prompt. According to The Verge, those apps cover games, polls and dashboards, and you can share each one as its own website.
Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider announced the expansion in an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt. He told the audience to think of Attie as “social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community.” TechCrunch reports that the company positions the update as a way for everyday users to create experiences that previously required a developer.
How it works
You type a prompt and Attie builds the result. The Verge’s Jay Peters made a poll about Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, which took a few minutes to generate. The Attie website also highlights fuller examples: a “Flappy Butterfly” Flappy Bird clone, a drum machine, a quiz, and an idle clicker about a celery man. Each has a custom link on the attie.site domain, with credit to its maker at the bottom of the page. Peters describes the apps he tried as lightweight novelties, though he liked the drum machine.
As TechCrunch reports, creations connect to the maker’s identity on the AT Protocol, the open standard behind Bluesky and other decentralised social apps. Attie also suggests ideas based on your public Bluesky profile. Users can bring their own AI model or use open-weight options.
Why Bluesky is doing this
Schneider’s pitch is about groups rather than individuals. He said vibe coding today is “kind of a single-user, solo experience” and that he wants people to build together or in groups. Bluesky COO Rose Wang argued that distribution is the real problem for anyone building with AI, and that Attie solves it because creations come with Bluesky’s audience attached.
That audience is large but less active than it was. TechCrunch reports the network has 47 million registered users and has seen declining engagement as some early users returned to X. Attie, which TechCrunch covered at its March launch, serves as Bluesky’s testing ground for AI ideas.
Developers are the other half of the plan. Schneider said the biggest developer request is private data support for the protocol. It’s in alpha now, with a rollout planned by year’s end.
Do I need to know how to code to use Attie?
No. You describe what you want in a prompt, and Attie generates it, and The Verge’s poll example took a few minutes to build. So far, the results are small projects such as polls, quizzes, and simple games.
Which AI model does Attie use?
TechCrunch reports that you can bring your own AI model or use open-weight options. Bluesky hasn’t been quoted naming a default model.
How do I share what I make?
Each creation gets its own link on the attie.site domain, with attribution to its maker at the bottom of the page. Bluesky says the apps can reach its wider audience, so posting the link to your followers is the obvious route.
