Bluesky expands its AI-powered Attie app to let anyone build websites, games, and more
Quick Answer
Bluesky has expanded its AI-powered Attie app, enabling users to create websites, games, and interactive experiences without coding skills.
Quick Take
This tool leverages the AT Protocol, connecting user-generated content to Bluesky's 47 million registered users, aiming to enhance community engagement and distribution.
Key Points
- Attie allows users to create websites, quizzes, and games easily.
- The tool connects to Bluesky's AT Protocol for decentralized social experiences.
- Bluesky has 47 million registered users, but engagement has declined.
- Private data support is in alpha testing, expected by year-end.
- Attie aims to foster community-driven projects and social interactions.
DeepSignal Analysis
What happened
Bluesky has expanded its Attie app, allowing users to create websites, games, and interactive experiences without coding skills. This new feature connects to the AT Protocol, which supports Bluesky's 47 million registered users and aims to enhance community engagement.
Key evidence
- Bluesky announced the launch of new tools within Attie at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, enabling users to create various interactive experiences.
- Attie connects user-generated content to the AT Protocol, which powers Bluesky and other decentralized social applications.
- Bluesky's COO noted that while many are building with Attie, the challenge remains in distribution, as some users have returned to competing platforms.
Why it matters
The expansion of Attie represents Bluesky's strategy to engage a broader audience by enabling non-developers to create content. This could potentially increase user interaction on the platform, which has faced declining engagement. The integration with the AT Protocol may also facilitate a more interconnected social experience.
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~3 min readOpen social network Bluesky is once again expanding beyond its flagship app. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Thursday, the company announced the launch of a new tool that allows creators to make websites, quizzes, games, polls, and other interactive experiences.
The tool is an expansion of Attie, Bluesky’s more experimental platform, which initially offered AI-powered technology for building custom social feeds. With its new creation capabilities, the idea is to allow everyday users to create the kind of experiences that previously only software developers could build.
These user-created games, sites, and other experiences will also live on the same AT Protocol (ATProto) that powers Bluesky and other decentralized social apps that make up the decentralized social web known as the Atmosphere.
Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider shared the news of Attie’s new capabilities during an interview at Disrupt, saying, “We’re adding a feature to our Attie product that allows you to build sites and social experiences again for a group of people. So think of it as … social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community.”
The exec, a former CEO of Automattic and a partner at True Ventures, had previously been leading the company on an interim basis after former CEO Jay Graber stepped down in March to become Bluesky’s chief innovation officer. Now he’s taking charge of the company as it enters the AI era.
Attie offers Bluesky a playground where it can try out AI-powered ideas like this.
“Vibe coding today is kind of a single-user, solo experience,” Schneider explained. “And what I want to be able to do is build together or build for a group of people, and that’s what this product does.”
When creators build with Attie, they’re connected to their ATProto identity. Plus, Attie will suggest things users might want to make based on their public Bluesky profiles.
To build with Attie, users can bring their own AI model or use open-weight options, and the resulting sites and games can then tap into Bluesky’s wider audience, noted Bluesky COO Rose Wang.
“Everybody is building … But the big question is: Who’s using the thing you’re building, because we haven’t solved that problem with distribution,” she said. “What makes Attie so interesting is that it comes with the Bluesky distribution, so it doesn’t stand alone.”
That network today has 47 million registered users, though it’s seen a decline in engagement, as some users who tested it out later returned to X.
Beyond being a testing ground for new ideas, Attie ties into Bluesky’s larger plans to reinvigorate activity on its network by focusing on both developers and communities in the months ahead. Those areas will also be supercharged by the protocol’s forthcoming support for private data, which Schneider said has been the biggest request from developers. Private data is now in alpha testing, with plans for a rollout by the end of the year, he said.
“There should be lots and lots of these fun, small social experiences for your friends,” said Schneider, referencing the types of projects Attie will enable. “We don’t all have to go communicate with the entire world all the time.”
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