Langaroo
A social platform where language stops being a barrier.
What we delivered
- Web
- iOS app
- Android app
- Backend & APIs
- 01
A member posts in their own language
- 02
Translation is applied across the feed and messages
- 03
It is read in whatever language the reader uses
Chat, voice, video and livestream ride the same real-time layer, so a conversation does not change medium when it changes language.
Solid outline: built and run by us. Dashed: an external system the flow depends on.
The business
Langaroo is a social platform built on the premise that the language you speak should not decide who you can talk to. Members post, message and broadcast in their own language and reach people who do not share it.
The challenge
Langaroo wanted a social network where you could post in your own language and be understood anywhere — with live video, payments and travel discovery in the same place. That meant native apps on both platforms and real-time infrastructure from day one, not bolted on later.
- 01
Translation cannot be bolted on later
If the feed is translated but messages are not, the promise breaks at the first place a user tests it. Translation had to sit underneath everything — feed, direct messages, live video — which makes it an architectural decision rather than a feature screen.
- 02
Real-time and global pull against each other
Chat, voice, video and livestream all have to feel immediate, for a community spread across time zones and network conditions. That means the real-time infrastructure exists in the first release; retrofitting it later means rebuilding the product around it.
- 03
Native on both platforms, rather than one compromise twice
Live video and voice are exactly where cross-platform abstractions leak. iOS and Android were built natively so neither had to inherit the other’s limitations.
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Money raises the stakes on identity
Peer-to-peer payments inside a social product turn sign-in, identity and moderation from conveniences into controls. Sign-in still had to work through whichever channel a member actually has, without weakening any of that.
What we did
We built the iOS and Android apps natively, the web application, and the services behind them: real-time chat, voice, video and livestream; instant translation across the feed and messages; peer-to-peer payments; and an admin console for moderating a global community. Sign-in works through whichever channel a user actually has.
What we built
Native iOS and Android apps
Both platforms built natively, so real-time video, voice and livestream behave like platform features rather than embedded approximations.
Instant translation across the product
Applied to the feed and to messages, so a member reads and writes in one language throughout and never meets a translation boundary.
Real-time chat, voice, video and livestream
One real-time layer serving every conversational surface, rather than a separate stack per medium.
Peer-to-peer payments
Members send money to each other inside the product.
Travel discovery in the same place
Discovery built into the social product rather than living as a second app.
A moderation console for a global community
Admin tooling for moderating across languages and regions, which is what makes an open translated community survivable.
Sign-in through whichever channel a user has
Authentication that does not gate onboarding on owning one particular account.
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