Daze is a freestyle messaging app that lets users craft multi-colored, social-media-style chats with photos, graphics, stickers, GIFs, drawings and decorated backgrounds. The product is already using AI to power some creative tools and the team plans to integrate deeper AI-based technology in the future. Built in React Native to launch simultaneously on iOS and Android, Daze aims to be feature‑complete and competitive with iMessage and WhatsApp while offering more creative expression. The app is prelaunch but has strong engagement signals: roughly 156,000 waitlist signups, about 48 million combined views across TikTok and Instagram (its top TikTok video has 8 million views), and ~1,400 invite-only beta users. A source familiar with tests said 60-day retention for people who have sent a message is over 50%. The small team (seven full-time, one part-time) is largely based in New York.

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Oct 2024