The challenge.
Text-based social apps felt noisy and impersonal — voice carried nuance and identity that text couldn't.
Voice recording, storage and playback had to be frictionless on mobile.
The client wanted a fan/friend graph alongside voice Q&A.
A voice-based social networking app where users ask questions in short audio clips and friends or fans answer — friend lists, favourites and fan follows included.
Text-based social apps felt noisy and impersonal — voice carried nuance and identity that text couldn't.
Voice recording, storage and playback had to be frictionless on mobile.
The client wanted a fan/friend graph alongside voice Q&A.
Built a React Native app with one-tap voice recording and S3-backed storage.
Shipped playback with speed controls and automatic normalisation for mixed mic quality.
Added favourites and fan follows so relationships deepened over time.
Layered moderation for voice content using transcription + classification.
Users asked and answered with their actual voices, not text.
Moderation scaled to voice thanks to transcription-based filtering.
Fan-following mechanics drove creator-style engagement.
The exact tools in the delivered system. We pick the stack to fit the problem and the team — not the trend cycle.
Most clients renew for a second engagement. The ones who don't usually hire someone from our team to run the project in-house.
We've been building software since 2010 — 16 years of delivery across finance, healthcare, retail, logistics, energy, the public sector, and beyond. We're a consultancy, not a body-shop, and we've kept the same engineering discipline across every engagement shape.
Thirty minutes with an actual engineer. No sales, no drip campaign. If we're the wrong fit we'll tell you and point you somewhere better.