ChatBridge
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Sunday 6 September, 8pm BST

Cambridge students will change the worldMeet the rest before the world does

ChatBridge is a randomised, low stakes, video chat web app designed for verified Cambridge students. Connecting brilliant people to find their potential co-founder, comedy partner or best mate.

Sunday 6 September, 8pm to 9pmSign in now and your profile is ready before the doors open
A student talking on a ChatBridge callAmara
A student listening on a ChatBridge callTom
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31
colleges, one queue
1 hour
a week, everyone at once
No app
it runs in your browser
How a night works

Four screens, start to finish

Everything that happens between opening ChatBridge and meeting someone, in the order it happens.

01

The night goes live

The whole university is online at the same time. For one hour, Cambridge stops being thirty one separate colleges.

Hey, Sam 👋

Welcome to ChatBridge

Launch Night is liveStart chatting
02

We find you someone

No profiles, no messages, no waiting for replies. Just a few seconds in the queue and you are already talking to somebody new.

Finding someone…

Hang tight, we're looking for another Cambridge student

Camera and microphone ready

Cancel

03

You talk, face to face

It stops being random about ten seconds in, and if you don't click, you can end the call and meet someone new.

You’re both at Trinity 🎓
A student talking on a ChatBridge callIda
A student listening on a ChatBridge callLeo
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04

You decide what happens next

The good ones don't have to end when the call does. If you both press share you get each other's CRSid, saved to your call log. If only one of you shares, nobody ever finds out.

Call ended

Want to share your CRSid with the person you just spoke to?

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Why we built it

Your staircase was assigned

Your subject was assigned

Your friend group, more or less, followed

You probably won't meet the people who'll change your life

Footlights has always worked the same way. Put remarkable people in one room, give them a reason to talk, and let the rest happen on its own. Fry and Laurie met that way, and so did half of Monty Python.

ChatBridge is that room for everyone, with no audition and no committee, just the rest of Cambridge on the other side of the screen.

Safety

Verified, private, and easy to leave

Similar to Omegle, but verified and Cambridge exclusive. It is not a dating app. We could get a lot more signups by staying vague about that, and we would rather you knew exactly what you are joining.

Raven only

Everyone signs in with their Cambridge account, so every person you meet is a real student. No outsiders, no bots.

Your CRSid stays yours

It is never shown during a call. You swap contact details only if both of you choose to, after the call has ended.

Report anyone, any time

There is a report button on every call and we read every report. One report blocks that pair from ever matching again.

More questions? Read the full FAQ

The next night

One hour, the whole university

Everyone online at the same time, matched one to one until the hour runs out.