A community-owned social media platform.
Community-Owned Social Platform: Built, Designed and Operated End to End
The Challenge
This was a privacy-first social platform built from scratch. It needed its own back office rather than off-the-shelf tools, because data ownership was a core promise, not an add-on. The work spanned Europe-based engineering with the client’s business team in Ireland.
What We Did
We built the backend, website and a custom back office as one, contributing product design alongside engineering. Production and staging ran with 24×7 support, and the experience was shaped by research rather than guesswork - the full platform built, designed and operated as one.
The Impact
Services Used
How We Delivered
An 8-member team - two backend, two frontend and two mobile developers, a UI/UX designer and a project manager - on a greenfield build across backend, web and back office with managed operations. Product decisions were grounded in user research, the team owned production and staging with release management, and a 24×7 support arrangement covered the live platform; Europe-based engineering worked alongside the client’s business team in Ireland.
Inside The Build
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