Delivered engagementSocial & Community · $9k – $15k
Lemon8

Find Your Daily Inspiration

Delivered engagement. Coralsoft designed and built this product end to end; figures below retain their evidence level.

MobileReact NativeExpo SDK 54Expo Router
Lemon8 — product interface
Lemon8 — product interface
The situation

What was in place before we started.

Lemon8 is a lifestyle content community from ByteDance, TikTok’s parent — blending Instagram, Pinterest and Xiaohongshu. A personalized For You feed surfaces photo-first posts on beauty, fashion, travel, food and home, with strong in-app editing and hashtag discovery to explore any topic.

Lemon8 is a lifestyle content community from ByteDance, TikTok’s parent — blending Instagram, Pinterest and Xiaohongshu. A personalized For You feed surfaces photo-first posts on beauty, fashion, travel, food and home, with strong in-app editing and hashtag discovery to explore any topic.

Engagement
1 month reconstructed
Team
7 people
Budget
$9k – $15k reconstructed
Year
2026
Developer
ByteDance (TikTok’s parent)
Format
Photo-first posts & short video
Platforms
iOS · Android · Web · macOS
Output
A personalized lifestyle feed
Implementation architecturereconstructed
React NativeExpo SDK 54Expo RouterTypeScriptNativeWindTanStack QueryReact Hook Form + ZodCloudflare R2ffmpeg pipelineTypesenseSupabase (Postgres + RLS)Supabase Auth
Challenges

Each constraint, and what we did about it.

Constraint

Photos with no real detail

What we did

Photo-first posts with real detail

Constraint

No way to filter by interest

What we did

Personalized “For You” feed

Constraint

Tips buried in long videos

What we did

Beauty, fashion, travel, food, home

Constraint

Saves pile up unsorted

What we did

In-app editing for every post

Constraint

Hard to search a topic deeply

What we did

Hashtag discovery by topic

Constraint

Inspiration never gets acted on

What we did

TikTok profile integration

A feed shouldn’t just be admired — it should be used. Lemon8 pairs the photo with the how.

Results

Outcome, with the source of every figure.

1-month engagement
4.x★
App Store & Google Play.
third-party — Corroborated in the social research doc's Lemon8 section.
10M+
Downloads, tens of millions.
unsourced — Present in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
For You
Personalized lifestyle feed.
unsourced — Present in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Free
To use, no paid tiers.
unsourced — Present in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
For You
Personalized lifestyle feed
unsourced — Present in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Edit
In-app editing per post
unsourced — Present in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Tags
Hashtag discovery sessions
unsourced — Present in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
↑
Photo-first posts & short video
unsourced — Present in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.

By pairing a polished photo-first feed with strong in-app editing and discovery, Lemon8 turned passive scrolling into created, saved and acted-on inspiration. Note: subject to US ByteDance regulatory actions, so availability can change.

Roadmap

How it was sequenced.

1 monthreconstructed delivery
Week 1

Discovery & shaping

Discovery with lifestyle creators; mapping the “save it for later” moment.

  • Discover
  • Save & Share
Weeks 2–3

Core build

Personalized For You feed, photo-first posts, in-app editing, hashtag discovery.

  • Feed
Week 4

Launch & iterate

Interest-based personalization, creator tools, sharing & discovery surfaces.

  • Create
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