Built by two people
who lived it.
It started on a 42-degree day at a St Kilda happy hour. Patrick, a chiropractor from Brisbane, and Lara, from Germany, were strangers until they weren't. The kind of connection that makes you rearrange your life.
They've done long distance three times. The first, just four weeks after meeting — she was moving to Perth, he to Brisbane. She abandoned the move and they chose Brisbane together. The second, Lara returned to Germany for three months. The third, she was in New Zealand.
That third stretch was different. More availability to talk, but the calls felt less connected. More conflict. The signal dropping mid-sentence. Wanting to reach for that person at 11pm and realising it's 3am where they are. The slow, exhausting weight of loving someone across a timezone — and the quiet fear that distance might be winning.
That's when Patrick started building Bonded. Not as a side project — as a response. Every feature exists because they needed it first.
We didn't build Bonded to be another couples app. We built it because distance was costing us something, and we refused to let it.
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