Ponder is an online place for you and your people. Groups are invite-only, giving you full control over who can read and participate. Ponder is privacy focused by design — the things you write are not our business and we’ll never use them to show you ultra-targeted ads or anything gross like that.
Our small team at Good Enough built Ponder because we wanted a place for thoughtful group discussions. We think it’s the right tool for all kinds of groups you might be in: book clubs, movie clubs, creative groups, support groups, improv troupes, D&D parties, and maybe even your small business.
Public group chat is too overwhelming and distracting. Deeper communication gets crowded out by all sorts of people firing off whatever thought pops into their head. Ponder is invite-only, so there’s no unexpected randos in your conversations.
Instant chat apps are great for quick exchanges, but they’re always dinging at you and demanding your immediate attention. Ponder is built to be slower, with paced notifications and a design that welcomes longer, more thoughtful responses.
Most forum tools still look stuck in the ’90s, and not in that fun “let’s bring back parachute pants” kind of way. Well-designed software doesn’t just look nice — it lowers a tool’s learning curve and makes it easy for anyone to participate.
We don’t build ridiculously complicated systems to scan your words and sell you ultra-targeted ads based on your 26 personality markers or some such nonsense. And we aren’t feeding an AI model we’ll use to take over the world. Honestly, even if we wanted to (we don’t!), we’re simply not smart enough to build that kind of software.
, and most of us are decent people who just wanted a calm place to talk online.