Discover
Ambient presence — who’s active nearby or farther out — without turning the app into a profile catalog.
01 — BRIEF
Spontaneity of random video. Polish of a modern social app.
Most social platforms are built for waiting — browse, message, hope for a reply. Random video solves immediacy, then burns trust, safety, and anything worth keeping.
Vylo was designed as a full consumer product: iOS, matchmaking, messaging, location-aware discovery, safety systems, and a real-time backend. Immediate without anonymous. Social without becoming a dating app.
02 — PRODUCT LOOP
Discover → Match → Talk → Connect.
One lifecycle. Four surfaces. Complexity stays under the hood.
Match
Queue in. Connect. Distance, language, interests, preferences, region — all behind one simple action.
Talk
WebRTC video with the person as the focus. Icebreakers stay light. Controls stay out of the way.
Keep
Add friends. Message later. Temporary encounters become lasting connections when they’re worth it.
03 — VISION
“See who's around.
Connect instantly.
Keep the people worth knowing.”
Not another feed. An ambient network that feels alive — then a path from a spontaneous call to a lasting connection.
04 — CORE EXPERIENCE
Four surfaces
Live Discovery
Activity over static profiles. The network feels alive before the first conversation starts.
Intelligent Matchmaking
Preferences and constraints evaluated in real time — without exposing the machinery to the user.
Real-Time Video
WebRTC at the center. Remote participant owns the screen. Controls stay secondary.
Friends & Messaging
A good call doesn’t have to disappear. Persist the people worth knowing.
05 — SAFETY
Safety as architecture — not an afterthought.
Precise locations never appear in discovery. Location is a matching signal, not a public pin. Spontaneity stays. Risk drops.
- Facial age estimation
- Liveness verification
- Moderation controls
- Report & block
- Privacy-conscious location
- Local · Nearby · Anywhere
06 — SYSTEM
Real-time system. Not CRUD dressed up.
iOS Client
01Swift · Native
Video, discovery, messaging, notifications, accounts.
Rust Backend
02APIs · Auth
Matchmaking, presence, social graph, messaging.
PostgreSQL
03Durable state
Users, interests, friendships, conversations.
WebSockets
04Live events
Presence sync, queue events, message updates.
WebRTC
05P2P media
Live video with STUN/TURN fallback.
Push
06Re-engage
Messages and social activity outside the app.
07 — ENGINEERING
Hard problems. Soft surface.
- 01
Presence at scale
Know who’s online, searching, matched, or gone — and keep that truth synchronized across concurrent sessions.
- 02
Matchmaking without races
Score available users against preferences. No duplicate matches. No double-booking the same person.
- 03
Ephemeral session state
Join, match, skip, drop, reconnect — in seconds. Durable data stays separate from live session state.
- 04
Hide the machinery
Users never think about queues, ICE negotiation, or presence machines. Open. Find someone. Talk.
08 — INTERFACE
Minimal. Native. People first.
Discover · Video · Messages · Notifications · Profile. Content stays loud. Chrome stays quiet.
09 — ROLE & OUTCOME
One product. One system.
Designed and built end-to-end — product decisions feeding architecture directly. Not screens bolted onto an API. A complete real-time consumer system.
Vylo explores what social looks like when presence comes before profiles: find someone available right now, and start talking.
- Product strategy
- UX & UI design
- iOS architecture
- Rust backend
- REST & WebSockets
- PostgreSQL modeling
- WebRTC media
- Matchmaking design
- Auth & identity
- Safety concepts
- Cloud planning
- End-to-end systems
Presence first
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