01
Challenge
Faves is a cloud video storage app for your favorite social-media clips — kept forever, even if the originals get deleted. The main delivery challenge was to give users low-friction creation and interaction without losing the feeling of a live community, while keeping Save, Stacks, and Search consistent across the complete journey. We framed the engagement around the smallest production-worthy flow first, then expanded the scope without weakening the underlying component and data model.
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How we built it
We first separated the core product rules from external services, then defined typed boundaries for every integration. The team delivered Save, Stacks, and Search as end-to-end flows, adding retries, idempotent operations, validation, and observable failure states before polishing the interface. This kept third-party behaviour from leaking into the product experience and made later integrations easier to add. The implementation was anchored by React Native, Expo SDK 54, Expo Router, and TypeScript, with shared TypeScript contracts across the frontend and service layer.
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Delivery
The delivered scope brought Save, Stacks, Search, and Stream into one coherent cross-platform mobile release. The reusable component and data patterns leave a clear route for the next product iteration. For Faves, the practical result is a product that communicates its value quickly while giving the team a maintainable base for continued delivery in social & community.
