A social platform built around real-time chat and short-video sharing in interest-based communities called Vollys, with user-led discovery rather than algorithm-driven feeds.
What we were handed
VollyMe wanted a social platform that felt different from the feed-driven networks dominating the market: real-time conversations and short-video sharing organized around interest-based communities, called Vollys, where discovery comes from what users actually follow rather than an engagement-optimizing algorithm deciding what they see.
That meant fast, real-time messaging and video sharing at global scale, on web and mobile from day one, without building a complex real-time backend from scratch.
How we made it
360DigitalPros built the platform on Next.js and Tailwind CSS, deployed globally through Vercel's edge network for fast load times regardless of where a user connects. Real-time messaging and authentication run on Supabase, giving VollyMe an instant, Slack-like chat experience without a custom real-time backend and connection layer built from the ground up.
AWS S3 handles media storage for the platform's short-video and photo sharing, and Google Analytics 4 tracks engagement across the Vollys communities. Building on Supabase's real-time layer rather than a custom WebSocket implementation was a deliberate trade off: faster to ship, and it scales with Supabase's infrastructure rather than requiring re-architecture as usage grows.
What shipped
The web app deployed for the original 2022 to 2023 build. VollyMe's living product today is its iOS and Android apps, both still receiving updates years after launch.
