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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky's Attie, launched earlier this year to build AI feeds, now makes small games, polls, and dashboards that people can share as their own websites.

By Dillip Chowdary • Oct 16, 2026 • Source: The Verge

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

The source is short, so I’m counting each paragraph against the 80–160 word band and keeping every name and figure that the Verge piece actually states.Bluesky is expanding Attie, the AI tool it launched earlier this year as a way for people to use AI to build their own feeds. Attie now lets people make "small" social apps, including games, polls, and dashboards, and share them with others as their own websites. At TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community." The Verge's report by senior reporter Jay Peters was published Oct 15, 2026, at 7:57 PM UTC.

This piece is for people who build feeds with Attie and for communities that might share a small game, poll, quiz, or dashboard. It explains the prompt that becomes an app, the custom link on the attie.site domain, and the attribution at the bottom of the page. It also follows the Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue poll Peters generated in a few minutes, and the more full-featured examples the Attie website highlights.

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games: what actually changed

Attie launched earlier this year as a way for people to build their own feeds with AI, and that is the tool Bluesky is expanding. People can now make "small" social apps. The kinds named are games, polls, and dashboards, and those apps can be shared with others as their own websites. At TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community." Jay Peters reported that expansion on Oct 15, 2026.

The Attie website shows the new apps by name. It currently highlights a "Flappy Butterfly" Flappy Bird clone, a drum machine, a quiz, and an idle clicker about a celery man. Each example has a custom link on the attie.site domain, and each page includes attribution for who made the social app at the bottom. Jay Peters also made a simple poll about Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. That poll took a few minutes to generate. He presented the highlighted apps as more full-featured than that poll.

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games: how it works

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
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A person makes an Attie app by typing in a prompt. Peters describes one creation step: a person types a prompt, and Attie generates the app. He used it for a simple poll about Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, and the poll took a few minutes to generate. The same prompt step is how someone makes the "small" social apps in this expansion, including games, polls, and dashboards. Only the poll has a stated time. The Attie website holds the apps he called more full-featured.

Those more full-featured examples are 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, which is how the app is shared as its own website. Attribution for who made the social app is shown at the bottom of the page. Peters messed around with the apps and called them pretty lightweight novelties. He liked the drum machine. The Pokémon poll took a few minutes.

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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games: why it matters now

Peters published this account on Oct 15, 2026, at 7:57 PM UTC. Attie launched earlier this year so people could use AI to build their own feeds, and Bluesky is extending that same tool. The new output is a "small" social app, a game, a poll, or a dashboard, shared with others as its own website. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community."

"Flappy Butterfly" is a Flappy Bird clone. Beside it on the Attie website are a drum machine, a quiz, and an idle clicker about a celery man. Each opens through a custom link on the attie.site domain, and the page names the maker at the bottom. A simple poll about Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue took Peters a few minutes to generate from a prompt. He still wrote that the apps he messed around with are pretty lightweight novelties, though he liked the drum machine.

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games: who is affected

The maker is the person who types a prompt into Attie. That person could already build a feed, since Attie launched earlier this year for feeds made with AI. The same person can now make "small" social apps, including games, polls, and dashboards. Whoever receives the share opens the app as its own website from a custom link on the attie.site domain. The maker remains identified. Attribution for who made the social app is printed at the bottom of the page.

Toni Schneider is the Bluesky chief executive who described Attie at TechCrunch Disrupt. He said to think of it as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community." Jay Peters is the reporter who tested the tool. He is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. His story ran Oct 15, 2026, at 7:57 PM UTC, and it includes the Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue poll he made and the drum machine he liked.

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games: what to watch

The Attie website currently highlights "Flappy Butterfly," a 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 and attribution for who made the social app at the bottom of the page. Apart from that list, Peters typed a prompt and got a simple poll about Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue. The poll took a few minutes to generate. He called the website examples more full-featured than the poll.

The apps Peters messed around with are pretty lightweight novelties. The one he liked is the drum machine. Attie is still the tool launched earlier this year to build feeds with AI. It can now also make "small" social apps, including games, polls, and dashboards, and share them with others as their own websites. Schneider's line from TechCrunch Disrupt is "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community." Each highlighted app has an attie.site link, and the maker is named at the bottom.

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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games FAQ

What is Bluesky's Attie AI tool?

Attie is a Bluesky AI tool that launched earlier this year as a way for people to use AI to build their own feeds. It now also lets people make small social apps, including games, polls, and dashboards, and share them as their own websites.

What did Toni Schneider say about Attie?

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said to think of Attie as "social vibe coding or vibe coding for your community."

How does someone make an Attie app?

A person makes an Attie app by typing in a prompt. Jay Peters' simple poll about Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue took a few minutes to generate.

Which example apps does the Attie website highlight?

The Attie website highlights 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 and attribution for who made the social app at the bottom of the page.

What did Jay Peters say about the Attie apps he tried?

Peters wrote that the apps he messed around with are pretty lightweight novelties. He liked the drum machine.

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