Shelly
Consumer mobile app with social features and content moderation tooling.
What was built
- Social feed with automated content-flagging pipeline — flagged posts queued for human review before appearing
- Firebase Realtime Database for live notifications and feed updates with no perceptible lag
- Rapid iteration across three sprint cycles with a working demo at the end of each
MVP shipped in 6 weeks — on time for the client's investor demo.
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