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Local Community App

A neighbourhood feed with events and chat, for iOS and Android

A community app built around what is close to you. People see a neighbourhood feed, share posts and events, and chat. Our team built the app in Flutter for iOS and Android, with our own Node.js back end. It was published on both stores in 2025.

Discuss a similar productWhat we delivered
Recreated screens of a local community app with example data: enlarged posts from the Nearby feed beside a phone showing the whole feed with an event and three posts
Screens recreated with neutral naming and example data.
Client
Confidential client · Social app
Platforms
iOS · Android
Our scope
Flutter app for iOS and Android · Node.js back end · Push messages
Period
Published 2025

The product

What it does, and for whom

A local feed is only useful if it stays local, so it shows posts and events from around the user. One Flutter codebase serves both platforms, and Firebase Cloud Messaging handles push messages.

Scope: The product and its brand belong to the client, and the posts in the live app come from its users. No real users, posts or locations appear on this page: every handle, post and message shown here is an example. Our work was the app and its Node.js back end.

Our contribution

What our team built

  • Flutter app for iOS and Android

    The neighbourhood feed, posts and events, and chat, from one Flutter codebase.

  • Node.js back end

    Our own Node.js back end for the app.

  • Push messages

    Firebase Cloud Messaging for push messages.

Technologies: Flutter · Node.js · Firebase Cloud Messaging

User flow

From welcome to conversation

Four screens in the order a user meets them.

Recreated screens of the app in order, left to right: welcome, local feed, new event, chat
The app's main screens, in the order of the steps below. Numbered markers match the steps below.

  1. Welcome

    A new user starts on a welcome screen.

  2. Local feed

    Posts and events from around you.

  3. Share something

    People create their own posts and events.

  4. Chat

    People talk to each other inside the app.

The product in use

Inside the app

  1. A neighbourhood feed

    People see posts and events from around them.

    Recreated Nearby feed on a phone with an event and three posts, beside an enlarged view of the same posts
    Local feed. Close-ups on phones: tap any image for the full screen.

  2. Posts and events

    People can share both posts and events.

    Recreated New event screen on a phone beside an enlarged form with the title Street clean-up morning, Saturday 14 at 9:00, by the park gate
    Creating an event. Close-ups on phones: tap any image for the full screen.

  3. Chat

    The app includes chat, so people can talk to each other without leaving it.

    Recreated chat screen on a phone beside an enlarged conversation between fictional handles about a street clean-up on Saturday
    Chat. Close-ups on phones: tap any image for the full screen.

About these images: the screens are recreated for this case study, with neutral naming and example data in place of the client's brand and users. Handles, posts and counts are all examples, and no real person appears. They follow the app's functions, but the layouts are illustrative and they are not screenshots of it.

Delivery

The engagement

  • Published on Google Play and the App Store in 2025.
  • Live on both stores.

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The services behind this project

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