TackTalk is a social networking app that brings celebrity news, fan discussions, and user-generated content together. A place to be for all things celebrity. Perpetio developed the iOS app and Parse backend, giving users a place to discover topics, share publications, and connect with other fans.
TackTalk is a social network for celebrity fans. Perpetio built the iOS app and the Parse backend: a timeline of followed accounts, publications with text, images, podcasts and news, likes, shares and voice comments, explore and search, personal profiles and notifications.
TackTalk
The client wanted a social platform where people follow celebrities, discover trending topics, and share their opinions.
The challenge: bringing celebrity conversations into one app
The client wanted to create a social platform where people could follow celebrities, discover trending topics, and share their opinions. The app needed to make it easy to find people, publish, follow, interact and stay up to date.
Find celebrities and other users
Publish text, images, podcasts, and news
Follow profiles and keep up with new publications
Interact with posts through likes, shares, and voice comments
Receive notifications about activity
Customize personal profiles
The solution: a social app built around discovery and interaction
Timeline and publications
The timeline brings followed accounts' activity into one feed. Users can publish different types of content, even voice recordings, and keep up with what others share.
Posts from followed accounts
Text publications, images and news
Podcasts and voice recordings
Likes
Shares
Voice comments
Voice comments
Fans react to a publication with likes, shares, and voice comments, and voice recordings and podcasts sit in the feed next to text, images, and news.
Voice comments on any publication
Likes and shares next to them
Voice recordings and podcasts in the feed
Hold to record
Play in the feed
Explore and search
Users can discover celebrities, accounts, and topics through the Explore section and search.
Browse popular profiles and suggested accounts
Find people and celebrity-related content through Radios
Discover new publications beyond their own timeline
Explore
Search
Radios
Personal profiles
Each user gets a profile with their own identity and activity.
Custom username with an @ handle
Editable profile photo and display name
Bio of up to 180 characters
Publication, follower, and following counts
Profile
Followers
Following
Login and sign-up
The app includes registration and login screens to give users access to their personal accounts and social features.
Registration and login screens
Access to personal accounts and social features
Parse backend behind every profile
Facebook
Twitter
Google+
Notifications
The notifications section keeps users informed about activity and updates in the app, helping them stay connected to the accounts and conversations they follow.
Voice comments on your posts
Shares of your voice comments
Likes on your photos
New
Old
Fans who publish
Share opinions in any format
Users can publish text, images, podcasts, and news, and see their publications in the timeline of everyone who follows them.
Text publications
Images and news
Podcasts and voice recordings
4content types in one publication flow
Fans who follow
Keep up with celebrities and other fans
Following, likes, shares, and voice comments support conversations between users, and the timeline shows posts from followed accounts.
Posts from followed accounts
Likes, shares, and voice comments
Notifications about activity
Voicecomments recorded right under a post
App flows: discover, publish, and connect
Publications
Publish a post in a few taps
Users write a publication, add an image, a podcast, or a news link, and post it. It appears in the timeline of every follower.
1Write a text publication
2Add an image, podcast, or news
3Post it to followers' timelines
Voice comments
Answer a post with your voice
Instead of typing, fans hold the button to record a voice comment on a publication. Voice comments and recordings play right in the feed.
1Hold to record a voice comment
2Listen to the comments on a post
3Find voice posts in the timeline
Explore and search
Discover celebrities, accounts, and topics
Users can discover celebrities, accounts, and topics through the Explore section and search, and follow a profile to see its publications in their timeline.
1Browse popular profiles and suggested accounts
2Search for people and celebrity-related content
3Open a profile and follow it
Timeline
All followed accounts in one feed
The timeline brings followed accounts' activity into one feed, so users keep up with what others share and connect with more fans.
1Scroll the posts of followed accounts
2Open a publication, like or share it
3Connect with friends to follow
Notifications and settings
Stay up to date and make the profile yours
Notifications keep users informed about activity on their publications and profile. Settings let them edit the profile photo, display name, and bio.
1See new followers, likes, and comments
2Edit the photo, display name, and @ handle
3Write a bio of up to 180 characters
The result: one place to discover, publish and connect
The result is an iPhone social network designed to make celebrity-related content easier to discover and discuss. Fans find people and topics, publish text, images, podcasts and news, and reply with voice comments.
from the brief to the iPhone app
6 months
content types: text, images, podcasts and news
4
comments and recordings on publications
Voice
backend behind profiles, follows and publications
Parse
What changed for fans who follow and fans who publish
Fans who follow
Fans who publish
Content discovery
Explore and search help users find celebrities, accounts, and new topics.
A dedicated timeline
Posts from followed accounts come together in one feed, so relevant people and content are easy to follow.
Community interaction
Following, likes, shares, and voice comments support conversations between users.
Timely updates
Notifications help users keep track of activity on the accounts and posts they care about.
Personal expression
Users can publish text, images, podcasts, and news, even voice recordings.
Personalized profiles
A custom @ handle, profile photo, display name and a bio of up to 180 characters make every account their own.
Tech stack behind the TackTalk app
A native iOS app in Swift on a Parse backend, with voice recording, push notifications and Crashlytics, tested by our QA team before every release.
Client location
US
Duration
6 months
Model
Fixed price
Platforms
iOS
iOS app
Language, IDE and SDK
Swift
Xcode
iOS SDK
Backend
Backend as a service
Parse
Media
Voice, podcasts and images
AVFoundation
Voice recording
Image upload
Notifications
Activity updates
Apple Push Notifications
In-app notifications
QA & stability
Test and monitor
Manual testing
TestFlight
Crashlytics
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