After all the heads-down weeks, the thing we've been building is finally living inside Kumi. You can use it right now. We genuinely can't believe we get to type that sentence.

It's rough around the edges, and we'd rather be the ones to say that first.

Still in beta. If you (or anyone you know) want in, hop into the Discord, that's where access goes out: discord.gg/learnkumi.

Every note you've dropped in Discord, every "this felt off," every screenshot of something weird, that's the raw material we build from. The grammar you're using today is not the grammar you'll be using in a month. You're going to watch it sharpen week over week, and you'll know exactly which rough edge you helped sand down.

So: thank you. Sincerely. For being patient with the rough version, and for caring enough to tell us where it hurts.

Now the fun part.

We're about to make a lot of content. We've been so deep in the build that we went quiet, but we've also been quietly figuring out something bigger: how we actually want to express ourselves publicly. What Kumi sounds like. What it looks like. The kind of stuff we'd want to watch even if we weren't the ones making it.

Which means we get to say the thing we've been dying to say:

🎉MEMES ARE RETURNING!!! YIPPIEEE 🎉

The explainers, the skits, the slightly-unhinged Japanese-learning memes, they're coming back, and there's going to be a lot of them. This is the version of Kumi we've always wanted to show you: building seriously, but never taking ourselves too seriously.

What's something you're glad you didn't wait to be ready for?

— The Kumi Team