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Social activity platform

MelBuddy
case study.

A social activity booking product with identity verification, payments, real-time notifications, moderation and scalable cloud integrations.

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Why MelBuddy needed to exist.

Meeting trusted people around shared activities requires discovery, identity, payment and safety tools in one experience.

A mobile social marketplace combines verified profiles, activity booking, payment flows, notifications and moderation.

Who it serves

People discovering social activities and organizers managing bookings.

Business value

Creates a scalable two-sided marketplace with trust mechanisms that support conversion and retention.

Designed around the essential workflow.

01

Identity verification

Designed as part of a cohesive social activity platform experience, with clarity, reliability and practical use in mind.

02

Activity discovery and booking

Designed as part of a cohesive social activity platform experience, with clarity, reliability and practical use in mind.

03

Payments and notifications

Designed as part of a cohesive social activity platform experience, with clarity, reliability and practical use in mind.

04

Moderation workflows

Designed as part of a cohesive social activity platform experience, with clarity, reliability and practical use in mind.

Value for users and the business.

Improves marketplace trust

Supports repeat engagement

Simplifies organizer operations

Built with constraints in view.

Trust and safety operations add complexity

Marketplace growth requires supply-demand balance

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01

Discover

Understand the users, business objective and constraints.

02

Design

Map the core journey and reduce unnecessary interaction.

03

Build

Implement maintainable interfaces, services and data flows.

04

Validate

Test behavior, responsiveness and failure paths before release.

Project by Sandipan Das

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