Ship It Live — $1,999 flat
Design + build + deploy · kickoff in 24h · limited slots
Ship It Live · social sprint
Your community, in its own app, on the stores in 30 days.
A real feed with real people in it, not a clone of a network you do not want to be. One month, one fixed price, both stores.
Quick answer
A social or community app can be designed, built and submitted to both app stores in 30 days for a fixed $2,500, covering profiles, a feed, posting, follows, notifications and direct messages. Live video, algorithmic ranking at scale and a full moderation operation sit outside that window.
The plan
Day one to day 30, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Scope lock
What the community is for and what a good post looks like in it. Social apps live or die on that answer, and no amount of design substitutes for it.
- 2
Days 4–12
Design
The feed and the posting flow first. Then profiles, messages and the empty states — which on a new social app are most of what early members will actually see.
- 3
Days 13–24
Build
Feed, posting, follows, messaging and notifications. Moderation tools go in alongside, not after, because both stores will ask about them at review.
- 4
Days 25–28
Seed and test
Real members, real posts, real reports. This week is where you find out whether the feed feels alive or hollow, and there is still time to change it.
- 5
Days 29–30
Submit
Store listings finished and both builds submitted. Social apps get reviewed carefully on moderation and user safety, and I handle those questions.
What $2,500 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Communities outgrowing a Discord server or a WhatsApp group
Creators who want their audience somewhere an algorithm cannot bury them
Niche networks the big platforms serve badly and always will
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
Outgrowing a Discord server or WhatsApp group
A community has grown past what a chat app or server can reasonably organize, with important posts buried in scroll and no real sense of who's actually active.
Profiles, a feed and follows give the community a real home, with onboarding designed specifically for the cold-start problem every new network faces.
Situation 2
An algorithm keeps burying the audience's own content
A creator has built a genuine audience on a major platform, but algorithmic ranking means most of that audience never sees what gets posted.
A chronological or simple relevance feed — the right answer at this size anyway — means posts reach members without fighting an algorithm designed for someone else's incentives.
Situation 3
A niche the big platforms will never serve well
A community exists around a specific interest or professional niche that general social platforms treat as an afterthought, buried under unrelated content.
A dedicated app built for exactly that community — profiles, feed, messaging — serves the niche properly instead of squeezing into a platform not built for it.
Situation 4
No moderation tools, and the app stores are asking
A social app attempt got rejected or flagged because it had no way to report content or block users, which both major app stores require.
Reporting, blocking and admin moderation tools are built in alongside the feed and posting, not bolted on after a rejection.
Situation 5
Launching to nobody and wondering why engagement is flat
A previous social app launched broadly with marketing spend but no existing community to seed it, and the feed stayed empty long enough that early users left.
The honest advice going in: launch to a community that already exists somewhere else — a group, a list, a server — because that's what actually seeds a feed.
The honest part
When 30 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Live video, streaming or real-time audio rooms — an infrastructure problem with an infrastructure budget.
Algorithmic ranking tuned for millions of users. v1 gets a clean chronological or simple relevance feed, which is the right answer at your size anyway.
A moderation operation. I build the tools; someone has to use them, and pretending otherwise is how community apps get pulled from stores.
Inside the 30 days
- Profiles, follows and a feed that makes sense when it is nearly empty
- Posting with images, text and links, plus drafts and editing
- Likes, comments and threaded replies
- Direct messages between members
- Push notifications tuned to be useful rather than desperate
- Reporting, blocking and admin moderation tools — required by both stores
- Onboarding designed for the cold-start problem every new network has
- Both store submissions handled, source code yours, 30 days of support
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Live video, streaming or real-time audio rooms — an infrastructure problem with an infrastructure budget.
- Algorithmic ranking tuned for millions of users. v1 gets a clean chronological or simple relevance feed, which is the right answer at your size anyway.
- A moderation operation. I build the tools; someone has to use them, and pretending otherwise is how community apps get pulled from stores.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
Yes, for a focused community with one main thing people do in it. The month covers profiles, feed, posting, messaging, moderation tools and both submissions. What does not fit is live video, stories, algorithmic ranking and a marketplace all in v1.
Other sprints
30 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.