B-side is a social network with a profile song, a Top 8, and a friends-only feed that ends. We brought back the parts that felt like yours — and quietly fixed everything else.
One email when we open up. No marketing sequences, no tracking pixels.
Remember when your profile had a song, a wall of friends, and a background that embarrassed you in hindsight? We miss that. So we're making it again — without the parts that sucked.
Pick a template. Change the colors, the fonts, the background, the song. Add the sections that describe the person you actually are. Rearrange them whenever you want.
Top 8. Guestbook. A feed of people you chose. No stranger engagement, no strangers in your replies, no strangers at all unless you want them.
Chronological. Caps at a reasonable number per day. When you're caught up, you're caught up. Sessions are meant to end.
Free tier for everyone. If you want more customization — custom CSS, your own domain, premium templates — you pay a few dollars a month. That's the whole business model.
12 hand-designed templates to start from. Color, font, pattern, section order — all yours. Swap templates without losing your content.
Pick a song from Spotify or Apple Music and put it on your page. The single best part of old MySpace, reborn legally.
Still the most honest feature social media ever had. Drag to reorder. Nobody gets notified. Some drama, in other words, is on you.
A reverse-chronological stream of your friends. Posts, photos, new songs, profile updates. Capped so you actually finish.
Leave a note on your friends' pages. It sticks around. Not a reply, not a like — a small piece of you, on their wall.
Friends-only by default. Private. No strangers unless you choose to let them in. No read-receipts unless you want them.
Everything on it is yours. The banner, the avatar, the song, the bio, the Top 8, the sections you choose to show. No feed widgets dictating what's on top. No algorithm deciding what "represents" you.
Pick a starting template — Zine, Mixtape, Dorm Room, Bento, Scrapbook, Locker — and take it from there.
Custom CSS / HTML and custom domains (yourname.bside.social → yourname.com) come with the Plus tier, a few months after launch.
Bookbinder by day, mediocre bassist by night. Currently re-reading every Lucia Berlin story like it's my job. Postcards encouraged. Top 8 ranked alphabetically (a lie).
B-side is being built by a very small team right now. No VC money, no ad strategy, no growth hacks. The waitlist is real — we'll open it up in small batches so the product doesn't fall over and the first few thousand people have a good time.
The plan is to ship v1 as a great web app in about five months. Native apps come later. Custom CSS and custom domains come on the Plus tier a few months after launch.
If you want to be part of it: drop your email below, and I'll write you directly when we're ready for you. No tracking pixels, no marketing sequences — just one email, from a person.
— David
No. It borrows the feeling — expressive profiles, Top 8, profile songs, friends-not-followers — but everything underneath is 2026. Mobile-first, fast, modern moderation, legal music integration, no creepy ad tracking. Nostalgic surface, modern guts.
Adults, 18+. Specifically, the millennials who actually used MySpace and are quietly tired of what social media has become. You can probably tell from the tone whether you're the audience.
A small monthly subscription for people who want more customization — custom CSS, custom domains, premium templates, more music slots. That's it. No ads, ever. The free tier is a real product, not a trial.
Strict 18+, email verification, comprehensive block and report, 24-hour response SLA on reports, image scanning on every upload, and a published community policy before launch. We're taking this seriously from day one.
Closed beta in about 4 months with a few hundred waitlist invites. Public launch about 5 months after that, web-first. Native apps come later, once the web product earns it.
No. You can export and delete everything at any time. Privacy policy will be in plain language, not legalese. We don't have an ad business to feed.
Get on the waitlist. We'll email you when early access opens up — probably this summer.
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