Jannis Ringwald

Today, we’re officially releasing React Native Godot to the public. For the first time, every React Native developer can create games with an amazing UI on top. This unlocks a new era of apps and games. github.com/borndotcom/rea…

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1.2M DAUs on Friends

first day at @borndotcom today! time to build some amazing React Native apps 🚀

Super cool to see how positive the feedback on our new Product Preview Life is. It’s exciting to see people extending their social graph with AI friends and building real relationships with them

Happy to share with the public what we’ve been working on. Today, we’re previewing Life: AI friends that feel alive and real. Friends that can send you TikTok’s, know what’s going on in the world, and share content that’s relevant to the era you’re currently in. One of the biggest challenges with AI friends is making conversations stay engaging and genuinely feel real over time. Under the hood, Life combines a recommendation engine with large language models to predict what users want to talk about next. Every conversation generates preference signals that influence future topics, content, and timing, allowing interactions to evolve naturally.

2025 was an exceptional year. Today, it became unforgettable. I received my EB-1A Green Card, and I couldn’t be prouder. @JannisRingwald and I dreamed about this for years. We talked about it endlessly, worked toward it relentlessly, and now we know we made it happen. There is no better place to become great at one’s craft than the United States of America. I am grateful for the opportunity, and I am committed to doing everything in my power to build important things throughout my life.

@prcWrites @OfficialLoganK Reached out to him!

@JannisRingwald This might be a really long shot but @OfficialLoganK could be your guy.

We’re excited to welcome @o_kwasniewski and @SzymonRybczak to Born. They are exceptional engineers and fit perfectly into our mission to rethink how people connect with AI friends through our upcoming product. Together, we’re building the category-defining company in companionship.

We are hiring React Native engineers If you care deeply about craft, product, and building the future of consumer social AI, join us You’ll be working closely with @fabiankamberi and me DMs are open

@AtheX_web3 Checkout my latest post

@JannisRingwald wen docs?

A technically interesting challenge when building Pengu was generating transparent images for each user’s unique Pengu. With over 350 clothing items and countless possible combinations, plus varying device sizes, pre-generating images in the cloud quickly became infeasible. To solve this, we moved the computation to the device itself by leveraging React Native Godot. Here’s how it works: ① The user changes the Pengu’s clothing, and React Native calls a GDScript function. ② Godot opens a subwindow with a specific scene that renders the Pengu. ③ Godot takes a “screenshot” and closes the subwindow. ④ React Native receives the File Path of the screenshot as a return value. You can get quite creative with how you leverage Godot’s subwindows. Screenshots are captured in just a few milliseconds, without the user ever noticing.

@lxnmnnn Yes

@JannisRingwald easy to use in an expo app?

Today, we’re officially releasing React Native Godot to the public. For the first time, every React Native developer can create games with an amazing UI on top. This unlocks a new era of apps and games. github.com/borndotcom/rea…

We’ve also opened new positions in Berlin and New York! We’re looking for the best React Native Engineers who want to reach millions of people every day and work at the frontier of technology. Check out our openings at: born.com

@WillMendoncaDev @BioblazePayne The final tests are running.

@JannisRingwald @BioblazePayne Already published @JannisRingwald ?

We’re open-sourcing React Native Godot this Sunday. After a year of testing, polishing, and making it scalable across all the different Android devices. Over the next few days, we’ll share all the different features we’ve built and best practices on how to use them. We built much of Pengu’s core functionality on top of this library, and it opened up a whole new world of possibilities for us. I can’t wait to see what you’ll all build with it!

Start over when good isn't great.

@paulocoutinhox We will launch it on Sunday!

@JannisRingwald Where is the repo? I want make an article about it.

One of the most important features for Pengu was the ability to download and launch different games (Godot pck's) on the fly. Under the hood, our React Native Godot library manages the entire Godot lifecycle: stopping, cleaning up, and starting a new instance with a different pck. Everything happens within milliseconds, without restarting the app.

@lastSonOfCy Sunday!

@JannisRingwald Documentation wen ?

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