Chat

Simple chat for teams, clubs, and parent groups.

Golbi chat is planned around clear rooms, useful updates, safer direct messages, and admin controls. The goal is fewer missed details, not another noisy social feed.

Product direction

Chat should be organized around real group work.

Rooms by purpose

Create rooms for a team, role, event, committee, board, coach group, or volunteer crew so messages stay in context.

Direct messages with rules

Direct messages should respect age, guardian, role, and organization rules. Adult-to-minor private DMs are blocked by default.

Simple first experience

Users should know where to read updates, where to ask a question, and what needs a response without learning a complex chat app.

Simplicity

This should feel easier than a group text.

Show unread messages by group, team, child, room, and urgency.
Keep announcements separate from discussion threads.
Pin important posts like practice changes, due dates, and form links.
Link chats to forms, files, events, dues reminders, and checklist tasks where useful.
Let admins archive, lock, or rename rooms without losing the history.
Keep search simple: find old messages, files, times, locations, and links.
Safety and control

Groups need chat controls before they need more messages.

Admins define who can create rooms, invite members, message roles, and moderate reports.
Members can report messages, block direct messages where allowed, and leave rooms when appropriate.
Minor-facing chat needs guardian visibility or guardian routing before launch.
Chat files and image attachments must follow the same private file rules as the rest of Golbi.
Sponsors, partner campaigns, and other organizations must not receive chat history or member lists.
Private dues, checklist, upload, file, form, and member-only page data must not leak through chat.
Current status

Chat is planned and should be sold carefully.

Product status

What works now, what is planned, and what Golbi does not do.

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Public organization websites and pages
Public pages for teams, clubs, nonprofits, school programs, and community groups.
Early access
Structured website setup
Guided setup for groups that want templates instead of a blank website builder.
Early access
Forms and form inbox
Sign-up and interest forms that connect to your group records.
Early access
Form versions, exports, and response follow-up
Version history, CSV exports, response tracking, and reminders for missing answers.
Planned
People, families, and guardians
People records that can link children to parents or guardians.
Early access
Custom roles, labels, and permissions
Let each group define roles like coach, mentor, student, player, volunteer, or board member.
Planned
Membership dues list
Private admin tracking for payments, payment notes, reminders, and balances.
Early access
Requirements and uploads
Private checklists for training, signed forms, uploads, approvals, and renewals.
Early access

We keep this list careful on purpose. Do not tell members, parents, board members, or sponsors that a planned tool is ready until it is live in Golbi.

Need chat for your group?

Ask what your group needs: announcements, team rooms, parent questions, direct messages, event threads, moderation, or safety rules.

Related

Chat works best when it connects to the rest of the group.

Plan chat around action, not noise.

Start with the public site, forms, people, dues, checklists, and files. Then add messages where they reduce confusion.