Feeds, profiles, and real-time engagement—moderation and safety built in so communities scale without drowning trust & safety in manual queues.

Social products that feel alive—fast feeds, clear rules, and tools that scale moderation

We implement graph-based feeds, notifications, and media pipelines with cost-aware storage and CDN strategy. Reporting, blocking, and automated moderation tiers reduce harm before it spreads; human review queues focus on edge cases. Privacy controls, age gates, and regional data policies are modeled early—especially for youth-facing or sensitive communities.

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Social Media App Development

01 // THE MANDATE

Feeds, profiles, and real-time engagement—moderation and safety built in so communities scale without drowning trust & safety in manual queues.

We implement graph-based feeds, notifications, and media pipelines with cost-aware storage and CDN strategy. Reporting, blocking, and automated moderation tiers reduce harm before it spreads; human review queues focus on edge cases.

Privacy controls, age gates, and regional data policies are modeled early—especially for youth-facing or sensitive communities.

02 // ENGINEERING

Development process

Structured phases—from discovery to launch—with clear ownership and handoff points.

Community & policy (weeks 1–3)

We define acceptable use, age policy, and moderation staffing. MVP scope and launch geography agreed.

Core product (weeks 3–12)

Profiles, posts, feed, social graph, notifications. Media upload MVP with abuse scanning hooks.

Realtime & scale (weeks 8–14)

Notification fan-out, websocket/push reliability, load tests on hot posts.

Trust & safety (weeks 10–16)

Reporting, moderation queues, appeals, audit logs for law enforcement requests (process-driven).

Launch (weeks 14–18)

App store readiness, content policy publication, support macros, and incident response runbooks.

Operate (ongoing)

Moderation metrics; policy updates; performance as data grows.

03 // CAPABILITIES

Core Capability Matrix

The building blocks of your solution

Profiles

bios, links, verification hooks, follower/follow graphs.

Feed

chronological or ranked; fan-out on write vs read paths sized to scale.

Posts

text, images, short video; transcoding and thumbnail pipelines.

Interactions

likes, comments, reposts, mentions, hashtags.

Messaging

DMs or threads; optional E2E with product tradeoffs documented.

Notifications

push, email digests; per-tenant quiet hours.

Search

typeahead, user search, content discovery (policy-gated).

Moderation

reports, auto-flagging, admin queues, appeals.

Safety

rate limits, block lists, device bans with care for false positives.

Analytics

DAU/MAU, retention, engagement depth, report volume.

04 // DELIVERY LIFECYCLE

The strategic roadmap

Milestones and checkpoints—each phase has a clear outcome before the next begins.

Milestone 01Delivery

Weeks 1–3: Charter, policy, pilot community.

Milestone 02Delivery

Weeks 4–8: Internal alpha; core posting loop.

Milestone 03Delivery

Weeks 7–12: Friends/beta; notifications; media polish.

Milestone 04Delivery

Weeks 11–16: Public beta; moderation tooling; safety review.

Milestone 05Delivery

Ongoing: Ranking experiments; new surfaces (stories, live); regional compliance.

05 // PRODUCT SCOPING

Choosing your path

Two engagement models—start lean and iterate, or commit to a full platform build from day one.

MVP

Speed & essentialism

Phase 1
MVP: profiles, follow, posts, feed, likes/comments, basic reports, email/password auth. Excludes video live, E2E DMs, and advanced ML ranking. Gets community flywheel before complexity.
Recommended

Full product

Enterprise maturity

All-in
Full social platform: rich media, live, spaces, creator monetization, ads, advanced recommendation, and enterprise-grade trust & safety.

06 // PARTNERSHIP

Why work together

A single accountable partner across strategy, build, and go-live—not a revolving door of vendors.

John Hambardzumian
Direct collaboration

End-to-end ownership: discovery, architecture, implementation, and launch—with clear communication and production-grade engineering.

  • Discovery & alignment
  • Systems that scale
  • Implementation depth
  • Clear comms

07 // CLARITY

Frequently asked

Optional—adds interoperability and ops complexity; we scope deliberately if you want open social graph.

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