Closely App

Social-dating prototype, match flow + plan-a-night-out group invites.

Role: Frontend
Year: 2024
Category: Mobile
Stack: React NativeRedux ToolkitJavaScriptiOSAndroid

01 · Outcomes

What the build actually shipped.

Numbers, not adjectives. The stats below are pulled from production. Anything still live, still measured.

Built

to spec

2024

Frontend

scope

mobile

tech in stack

React Native · Redux

2024

shipped

year of build

02 · Overview

What it does.

Dating app with a twist: matching is built around real plans, not endless swipes. Pick a place, invite a date or a group of friends, settle the night out without the usual ten-message coordination. Prototype-stage build, design system, match flow, and group-invite mechanics all working end-to-end.

03 · Gallery

How it looks.

Mockups of the finished product. Click any shot to open it full-size.

04 · Decisions

The choices that shaped the build.

Tech is downstream of decisions. These are the calls made early enough to compound the right way. The ones a code review six months later still agrees with.

End-to-end ownership

One engineer from schema to deploy. Removes the most expensive failure mode in product builds — the seam between specs and code where intent dies.

Schema before UI

Data shapes first, screens second. The frontend is a view of the data, not a parallel reality. Saves weeks of rework when scope shifts.

Boring tech where it matters

Relational stores for payments and ledgers (ACID is non-negotiable), document stores for content, Redis for cache. Pick the dull tool for the dull job.

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