Social Media App Development for Modern Communities to Connect, Share, and Grow
We have spent more than ten years building products where the hard part is not the first screen, it is the thousandth session. From feeds and messaging to short video and moderation, we handle the full build from concept to app store and beyond.
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End-to-End Social Media App Development Services
From the first scoping call to the thousandth session after launch, we handle the full build of feed, video, messaging and community products.
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Social App Strategy and MVP Scoping
Audience research, feature prioritisation and a release plan that puts a real community in front of the product early, so you are testing demand rather than funding assumptions.
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Custom Social Media App Development
End to end builds in Kotlin, Swift, Flutter or React Native, with the feed service, social graph and media pipeline designed together instead of assembled screen by screen.
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Social App UI and UX Design
Posting flows, feed layouts and first run journeys designed around habit, then tested as a clickable prototype before engineering spends a sprint on the wrong interaction.
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Platform and API Integrations
Social logins, payments, analytics, push services and sharing into Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube, wired so your product sits inside the ecosystem your users already live in.
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App Rebuild and Scale Engineering
For products already live but straining, we rework the feed, database and media layers so performance holds as the user count moves from hundreds to hundreds of thousands.
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App Store Launch and Release Management
Store submission, phased rollout and release notes handled for both platforms, including the review questions social apps always attract around moderation, tracking and user generated content.
Types of Social Media Apps We Develop
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Content Sharing and Feed Apps
Image and text feeds with ranking, saves, collections and resharing. We build the feed service first because everything downstream, from notifications to ads, reads from it.
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Short Video and Reels Apps
Capture, trim, music, effects and an autoplay feed that does not stutter. Encoding, adaptive streaming and CDN strategy are decided before a single screen is designed.
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Messaging and Community Apps
One to one chat, group threads, channels and voice notes with delivery receipts and presence. Built on infrastructure that holds when a single thread goes busy.
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Professional Networking Apps
Profiles, connection graphs, endorsements, job posts and a feed that stays useful to people who open it twice a week rather than twenty times a day.
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Dating and Matchmaking Apps
Discovery, swipe or browse mechanics, match queues and paid tiers, with verification and reporting built into the first release rather than bolted on after launch.
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Niche and Interest Communities
Smaller graphs around a sport, a trade, a fandom or a workplace, where the product lives or dies on moderation quality and the health of the first thousand members.
- 250+ Products shipped
- 10+ Years building apps
- 30+ Industries served
- 4.7 Average Clutch rating
Let’s Bring Your Social Media Vision to Life
Ready to grow your brand? Let’s create a social media strategy that delivers results.
Industry Awards
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Clutch
Rated 4.7 out of 5 across verified client reviews.
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GoodFirms
Listed among leading custom software development companies in the United States.
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Crunchbase
Verified Atlanta software company, founded inside Atlanta Tech Village in 2016.
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DesignRush
Ranked among the top app development agencies in the United States.
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TrueFirms
Listed among verified software development companies in the United States.
Our Featured Case Study
A look at the work itself. Different industries, different constraints, different timelines, and the thinking behind each build.
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Vumi
A social network where you earn view coins by watching other people’s content, including VumiTV, a shared global feed giving every user a channel.
- 92%
- User Engagement
- 88%
- Social Interaction
- 2X
- Community Growth
Stack Swift, Kotlin, Firebase, with backend coin ledger validation.
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USpace
A private social platform with encrypted one to one messaging and invite only rooms, built without ads, tracking, or algorithmic feeds.
- 93%
- Property Discovery
- 90%
- Search Experience
- 2X
- Real Estate Interaction
Stack JavaScript, secure JS APIs, cross platform native mobile, encrypted architecture on private cloud.
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PoliSci
A discussion platform where curated contributors set the topics, users argue them out, and political news feeds in from outside sources.
- 100%
- Platforms Accuracy
- 50%
- Development Enhancement
- 10+
- Core Technology Tools
Stack Next.js,Node.js,MySQL,AWS
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Joseline
A mobile app of custom emojis, stickers and GIFs curated by Joseline Hernandez, with an in app purchase flow for additional packs.
- 92%
- Customer Engagement
- 85%
- Service Discovery Improvement
- 2X
- Digital Reach
Stack Swift, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, with Apple in app purchases.
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Skoozi
Connects fans with celebrities through paid personal video messages, shoutouts and live sessions, with onboarding and scheduling built in.
- 91%
- Rider Experience
- 88%
- Booking Accuracy
- 2X
- Transportation Efficiency
Stack Java, Node.js, Xcode, Android Studio & SDK
What Our Clients Say About Us.
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Calls and sales are up by at least 20% now that we've launched the site.
Paawan Mathur
President, Apex Textile Company
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What stands out most is their strong execution and commitment to problem-solving.
Cole Sturdevant
CEO, Freedom RideShare Rentals, LLC
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They go above and beyond to communicate direction and are responsive to feedback.
Carey Markey
CEO, MEDcraze
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AppZoro made each project feel like it was their baby, and they seemed to care about nothing else.
Ed Bolian
Founder, VINwiki
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There's never been a language barrier or an issue with our difference in time zones. Their team has been really great.
Mario Gonzales
VP of Operations, Judicial Innovations
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They grasped what I wanted to accomplish and helped me get there. I'll never go elsewhere for an IT provider.
Steve Thompson
Founder, Beverage Solutions Group, LLC
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I've been very impressed with the dedication the AppZoro Technologies, Inc. team has to our project.
Max Hockley
Chief Strategy Officer, Jax Automotive, LLC
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In addition to superb communication, they built a very smooth app with intuitive navigation and a clean interface.
Thad Joseph
Founder, Turns Financing Services
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They do great work with integrity.
Karen Houghton
Director, Atlanta Tech Village
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AppZoro is a young company, and I've seen them grow and get better in the short time we've worked together.
Michael Patterson
CEO, CopyThat Technologies, LLC
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We haven't seen any weaknesses in their work.
John Cox
Co-Owner, Convoy Judicial Transport LLC
Custom Social Media App Development Built for Engagement
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Creator Studio
A posting surface that handles text, image, video, files and branded content in one flow, with drafts, scheduling and a preview that matches the live feed exactly.
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Engagement Analytics
Views, clicks, dwell time, saves and reshares tracked per post and per cohort, so your team can see which content holds attention instead of guessing from likes.
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AI Powered Moderation
Automatic filtering of spam, duplicates and abusive content before it reaches the feed, with a human review queue for the grey cases that models should never decide alone.
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Live Walls and Tickers
Real time displays for events, streams and venues, pulling approved posts into a scrolling wall or ticker without interrupting whatever is on the main screen.
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Multiple Feed Layouts
Grid, carousel, masonry, spotlight and full screen presentation modes, so the same content library can be shaped to fit the moment rather than one fixed template.
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Reactions and Replies
Reaction sets, threaded replies, mentions and quote posts, tuned so conversation stays readable once a single thread passes a few hundred contributions.
Your audience is already mobile first. Is your product?
If you want to create your own social media app, the window is now. The hard parts are architecture and moderation, and both get more expensive later.
Launch Your AppEssential Features of a Social Media App
Profiles and Identity
Sign up, social login, handles, avatars, bios and privacy controls. We build identity as its own service from day one because every other feature reads from it, and retrofitting it later touches the entire codebase.
Content Creation and Upload
Capture, crop, filters, music, captions and tagging, with background upload and resume so a dropped connection does not cost someone their post. Media processing runs off the main path to keep the app responsive.
Notifications
Push, in app and email, grouped by type and controlled by the user. Over notifying is the fastest route to an uninstall, so frequency caps and digest logic are part of the build, not an afterthought.
Moderation and Reporting
Report flows, block and mute, automated detection and an admin console with an audit trail. Regulators and app stores both ask for this, and app stores will pull a product that cannot show it.
Feed and Ranking
Chronological to start, ranked when the data supports it. The feed service decides what each user sees and how fast it loads, which makes it the single biggest driver of session length in the product.
Messaging and Presence
Direct messages, group threads, typing indicators, read receipts and online status. Built on a socket layer with offline queueing, so messages arrive in order once the device comes back onto a network.
Search and Discovery
People, posts, hashtags and places, with typo tolerance and ranking that favours recency for some entities and authority for others. Discovery surfaces decide whether new users find anything worth staying for.
Analytics and Admin
Dashboards for growth, retention, content health and abuse rates, plus the operational controls your team needs to run campaigns, feature content and respond to incidents without a developer in the loop.
AI Powered Social Media App Features
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Personalised Ranking
Models that learn what each person actually engages with rather than what they clicked once, with controls that let users reset their feed when the recommendations drift.
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Content Moderation
Vision and language models screening images, video and text for abuse, nudity and spam at upload, routing the uncertain cases to a human queue instead of auto removing them.
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Smart Recommendations
People, groups and topics suggested from graph signals and behaviour, tuned so new users reach a useful network in their first session instead of an empty feed.
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Auto Captions and Translation
Speech to text captioning, alt text generation and on demand translation, which widens reach and covers a growing.
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AI Content Optimisation
Caption suggestions, hashtag recommendations, thumbnail selection and best time to post guidance, generated from the performance of that creator's own content rather than generic benchmarks.
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Abuse and Fraud Detection
Pattern detection across accounts, devices and behaviour to catch bot farms, coordinated harassment and fake engagement before they distort the metrics your business decisions rest on.
Our Social Media App Development Process
Every stage is planned around your platform goals, user experience, performance, and long-term growth.
[1] Discovery and Product Definition
We map the community you are building for, the behaviour you need from them and the content types the product has to carry. Output is a feature list priced in three tiers, so scope conversations happen before code does.
[2] Architecture and Data Modelling
The social graph, feed service, media pipeline and notification layer are designed together. This stage decides what your product can do at scale in year two, and it is the hardest thing to change afterwards.
[3] UX and Interface Design
Wireframes, then a clickable prototype you can put in front of real users. We test the posting flow and the first run experience hardest, because those two decide whether a download becomes a user.
[4] Development Sprints
Two week sprints with a working build at the end of each. You see the product grow in your own hands rather than in a status report, and priorities can shift between sprints without restarting anything.
[5] Testing and Load Readiness
Functional, device, security and load testing, including the scenario where one post or one thread goes busy. We rehearse the launch spike before launch day rather than discovering it live.
[6] Launch and Ongoing Support
Store submission, phased rollout, monitoring and a support agreement with defined response times. Most of our clients stay with us past launch because the first ninety days are where the product gets decided.
Struggling to Scale? Let's Build a Product That Grows With You
Tell us what you are running today and where it breaks. We will come back with an architecture view and a cost range, at no charge.
Talk to Our ExpertsTechnology and Ecosystem
You do not need to arrive knowing which framework you want, because that decision depends on your users, your team and what you will maintain in three years without us. We work across mobile, web, cloud and AI and we will happily work inside a stack you already own.
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Jetpack Compose
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Kotlin
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SwiftUI
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Flutter
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React
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Swift
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AWS
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Azure
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Docker
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Objective-C
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Terraform
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Java
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Google
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Grok
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Hugging Face
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Milvus
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Pinecone
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OpenAI
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Anthropic Claude
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GCP
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GitHub Actions
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PyTorch
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REST API
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AWS Bedrock
Social Media App Security and Privacy
Messages, location, contacts and photographs are all sitting in one place, which is making your app a target from week one.
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Encryption in Transit and at Rest
Everything moving between device and server is encrypted, and so is everything sitting in storage, so a stolen database hands over nothing usable.
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Every API Scoped by Role
Permissions are defined per role rather than assumed, so a regular account simply cannot reach moderation endpoints, admin data or another user’s private records.
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Media Protected Behind Signed URLs
Photographs and videos stay behind signed URLs with short expiry windows, so a shared link stops working quickly instead of circulating permanently.
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Authentication and Access Logging You Can Audit
Sign in runs through proven providers with multi factor available, and access is logged properly so an incident can actually be investigated afterwards.
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Consent, Export and Deletion Built Into the Product
Privacy controls ship as working features instead of policy wording, covering GDPR, CCPA and the app store reviews that now question data handling directly.
Social Media App Development for Every Industry
From healthcare and fintech to logistics, fleet, manufacturing and real estate, we build apps and software around the way each business already works. Find your industry below and see the projects behind it.
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Healthcare
Patient apps, provider tools, wellness and activity tracking, built with privacy handling appropriate to health data.
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Fitness
Workout tracking, coaching and wearable sync, built around the retention problem every fitness product hits by week three.
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Logistics
Dispatch, live tracking, driver apps and fleet visibility. Convoy and Freedom Rideshare both run on this stack.
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Fintech
Payments, lending, credit and banking front ends, with security and audit requirements handled from architecture onward.
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Real Estate
Listing search, MLS integration, virtual tours and agent tools that work as well in a car as at a desk.
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Manufacturing
Floor-level apps for inventory, quality checks and machine data, built to work in plants where connectivity is not guaranteed.
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Entertainment
Streaming platforms, fan engagement, booking tools and digital experiences, built to keep audiences engaged across every screen.
How AppZoro Helps You Build a Social Product That Last
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50+ In House Developers
No subcontracting chains. The engineers who scope your build are the ones who write it, and they stay on the account through launch and into support rather than rotating off at handover.
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Engagement First Architecture
We design the feed, graph and notification layers together before any screen work begins, because retention problems in social products are almost always architecture problems wearing a design costume.
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Moderation Built In, Not Bolted On
Reporting, blocking, automated detection and an admin console ship in version one. App stores ask for it, regulators ask for it, and retrofitting it costs several times more.
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4.7 Rating Across Verified Reviews
Our Clutch score comes from interviews clients give directly to Clutch, not from testimonials we collect ourselves. Ask for the profile link and read the lower scores too.
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Fixed Scope, Visible Progress
Two week sprints with a working build at the end of each one. You see the product in your own hands throughout, which is why scope conversations stay calm.
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Support That Does Not Expire
Defined response times, monitoring and a roadmap partner after launch. Most clients stay with us past the first release because the first ninety days decide the product.
Your Audience Demands a Social Product Built for Them, Not a Template
With 50+ in house developers and ISO aligned processes, we build social apps that hold up when the user count goes from hundreds to hundreds of thousands.
Get Free ConsultationHow Much Does a Social Media App Cost?
Most social builds land between $20,000 and $150,000 depending on scope, media handling, moderation depth and launch requirements. Here is roughly where each tier sits, and what moves a project between them.
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Simple Apps Range
$20k to $40k
A focused MVP with profiles, a single feed, basic posting and push notifications. Right when you are testing whether a community forms at all before investing in video or messaging.
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Moderate Apps Range
$40k to $80k
Richer interface, direct messaging, media upload, search and an admin console. Most products that want to create your own social media app properly start their costing in this band.
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Complex Apps Range
$80k to $150k+
Short video with adaptive streaming, AI moderation, recommendation ranking, live features and multi region infrastructure. Built for scale from the first release rather than refactored into it.
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Share your scope and we will come back with a roadmap, a timeline and a cost range built on what you actually need to ship.
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Turning Your Questions into Confidence
How long has AppZoro been building social products, and what is the track record?
AppZoro has been building mobile and web products for more than ten years, with 250+ products shipped across 30+ industries. As a social media app development company we hold a 4.7 average on Clutch, drawn from interviews clients give directly to Clutch rather than from quotes we collect ourselves.
Where is AppZoro based and how do you work across time zones?
We are headquartered at Atlanta Tech Village in Atlanta, Georgia, with a delivery team of 50+ in house developers. Projects run with a daily overlap window agreed at kickoff, so you always have live hours with the engineers on your build rather than a ticket queue.
What does your social media app development service actually cover?
Everything from discovery and architecture through design, build, store submission and post launch support. That includes the feed service, social graph, messaging layer, media pipeline, moderation tooling and admin console, plus the analytics your team needs to run the product after we hand it over.
Can you handle custom social media app development rather than adapting a template?
Yes, and it is most of what we do. Template products break at the point your community behaves differently from the template's assumptions. Custom social media app development costs more at the start and considerably less by year two, when the first real scaling problems arrive.
How long does social media application development take?
A focused first release usually runs twelve to sixteen weeks. Products with short video, live features or complex moderation typically run twenty to twenty eight weeks. We give you a sprint by sprint plan at the end of discovery, with a working build in your hands every two weeks.
Who owns the code and the intellectual property?
You do, in full, from the first commit. Repositories sit under your organisation or transfer to it at project close, along with documentation, infrastructure definitions and design files. There is no licensing arrangement and no dependency on us to keep the product running.
What does it cost to create your own social media app?
Most builds land between $20,000 and $150,000 depending on scope. A focused MVP sits at the lower end, while short video, AI moderation and recommendation ranking push toward the upper. We give a range after discovery, not before, because an estimate without scope is a guess.
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