--- title: "mssgs reaches 1,000 members after nine months in which growth rose every single month - Press - mssgs" description: "mssgs, the independent Dutch group chat app with no advertising, has reached 1,000 registered members. Growth rose for nine months in a row, from 18 new members in December 2025 to 345 in August 2026." canonical: https://mss.gs/en/press/1000-members language: en --- # mssgs reaches 1,000 members after nine months in which growth rose every single month The Dutch messaging app opened in December 2025 and closed August with 1,000 registered members. That last month brought in 345 of them, more than the first six months put together. **Brummen, the Netherlands**, 22 September 2026 **mssgs**, the independent Dutch group chat app, has **1,000 registered members**. The counter passed that mark at the end of August 2026, nine months after the first members signed up in December 2025. Growth rose in every one of those nine months. December brought in 18 new members, June 143, July 213 and August 345. That last month on its own brought in more members than the first six combined, which together came to 299. mssgs carries no advertising, does not record who a member talks to, and is entirely self-funded. No advertising budget went into the growth. ## Nine months, each one bigger than the last A thousand is not a large number in the messaging business, and the company is not presenting it as one. What mssgs points at is the shape of the line underneath it: nine months in a row in which each month brought in more new members than the one before, with no campaign to explain it. The pattern in figures: Dec 18, Jan 27, Feb 38, Mar 52, Apr 71, May 93, Jun 143, Jul 213, Aug 345. The running total at the end of each month is printed under the chart below. The app grows by the group rather than by the person. Somebody who installs mssgs arrives to be part of something: a group of friends, a community around a game, a team. That makes the intake lumpy, and according to the company it also explains why the months push each other along. Every community that settles in brings the next one with it. *Nine months of member growth. Every month brought in more new members than the month before it, and August 2026 on its own brought in more than the first six months together.* ## Grown without advertising, and paid for by the people using it mssgs has no advertising, no tracking and no resale of member data, and that choice applies to its own growth as well: nothing was paid for installs. New members arrive through an invite link from somebody already there. The app is paid for by the members who buy something. Credits are a one-off currency that pays for a Premium account, a bot account or a gift to another member, and together with Premium they are the entire business model. A member who never buys anything keeps the whole app: channels, direct messages, voice and video calls, the built-in games, file sharing and the map. All data is hosted in the European Union. mssgs is available on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and in the browser, and alongside the app there is a developer side with bots, webhooks, a game SDK and AI integrations over MCP. > A thousand is a small number and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What I do take from it is that every month was bigger than the one before, while we spent nothing on advertising and the app keeps no record of who talks to whom. That means people are bringing each other along. It is the only growth we want, and the only kind that suits an app you use rather than watch. René van Sweeden, founder of mssgs ## Availability mssgs is free to use and available on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and in the browser. Downloads for every platform are at [mss.gs/en/downloads](https://mss.gs/en/downloads), the release notes at [mss.gs/en/releases](https://mss.gs/en/releases) and the developer documentation at [mss.gs/en/docs](https://mss.gs/en/docs). The app carries no advertising and no tracking, and hosts all data in the European Union. What a Premium account includes is set out at [mss.gs/en/premium](https://mss.gs/en/premium). Milestone 1,000 registered members Reached End of August 2026, nine months after opening in December 2025 Last month 345 new members The month before 213 new members And the one before that 143 new members First six months 299 new members in total Platforms iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web Business model Credits and Premium. No advertising, no tracking, no member data sold on Funding Entirely self-funded, no venture capital mssgs is a group chat app for friends, communities and teams: channels, direct messages, voice and video calls, built-in games, bots and AI integrations over MCP. It is free to use and available on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and the web. mssgs is built by RUAL (Deverence Group B.V.) in Brummen, a Dutch software company that has been making business software and no-code platforms since 2009. All data is hosted in the EU, there are no ads, and nothing is sold on. mssgs is entirely self-funded. Sami Bouchagratan Press & communications, mssgs (RUAL) [sami@mss.gs](mailto:sami@mss.gs) Deverence Group B.V. (RUAL), Brummen, the Netherlands [Press kit](https://mss.gs/en/press#press-kit) [Back to the press room](https://mss.gs/en/press) ## Sami Bouchagratan Press & communications, mssgs (RUAL) Brummen, the Netherlands For questions, interview requests or additional imagery, we normally reply within one working day.