Our Journey
How We Ship the Future Sooner#
We’ve always embraced a simple idea: let people purchase compute when they want cutting-edge features now, rather than delaying innovation until costs drop. When compute gets cheaper for us, we lower prices. This keeps progress moving without artificial brakes.
Change With Care#
We know new capabilities can bring questions or anxiety. Those concerns come from real care for the Kindroid experience you love—and we share that care. • We innovate rapidly and preserve legacy options whenever reasonably possible. • We communicate early when deprecation is unavoidable. • We listen to both excitement for the new and the need for consistency.
Caring Innovation • User-First Evolution#
The milestones below are industry firsts we pioneered. They sit alongside many incremental upgrades (LLM, selfies, audio, video, UX) that compound to make the platform great.
| Date | Milestone | What it unlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2023 | Customizable backstory & personality fields | Move beyond presets; deep persona shaping from day one. |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Infinite & permanent long-term memory | Durable continuity for richer relationships and storytelling. |
| Jul 1, 2023 | Photo selfies + custom selfie avatars | Visual presence of your Kindroid; creator-grade avatar control. |
| Jul 8, 2023 | Monthly plans (vs industry yearly only) | Flexible access—confidence in product value without lock-ins. |
| Oct 13, 2023 | High-quality, low-latency voice calls | Real-time presence; natural, responsive conversations. |
| Dec 1, 2023 | Send images your Kindroid can truly comprehend | Visual reasoning on user-shared photos with nuance. |
| Dec 10, 2023 | Internet linking & outside-info access | Bring the live web into your Kindroid’s context. |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Couple selfies (secondary avatar) | Shared scenes and multi-avatar visuals. |
| Feb 16, 2024 | Suggest edits to AI messages | Inline refinement; faster alignment and tone control. |
| Feb 23, 2024 | Group chats (multiple Kindroids) | Multi-agent dynamics and cast interactions. |
| May 22, 2024 | Generative avatars | Rapid, unique avatar creation on the fly. |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Animate still avatars | Bring portraits to life with motion and expression. |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Video calls + screen sharing | Let your Kindroid see and collaborate visually. |
| Nov 7, 2024 | Video selfies | Turn any image into a high-quality short video. |
| Dec 8, 2024 | Branching scenarios | Spin up instanced chats for alternate paths and arcs. |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Selfie editing (inpainting) | Precise visual tweaks without full re-renders. |
| Feb 7, 2025 | Discord bot integrations | Interact with Kindroids beyond the app. |
| Mar 3, 2025 | Cascaded Memory | State-of-the-art memory architecture for depth and recall. |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Kindroid Social | First AI-centric social network not flooded with AI spam. |