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title: "VollyMe"
url: https://hashoneglobal.com/case-study/vollyme/
type: case-study
updated: 2026-09-07
description: "A social platform built around real-time chat and short-video sharing in interest-based communities called Vollys, with user-led discovery rather than algorithm-driven feeds. Messaging runs on Supabas…"
---

**iOS and Android**live on both the App Store and Google Play, actively maintained

**3.8 / 5**Google Play rating across early reviews, with 5.0 / 5 on the App Store

**Version 4.0**the latest release, shipping continued bug fixes and features into 2026

## The Challenge

VollyMe wanted a social platform that felt different from the feed-driven networks dominating the market: real-time conversations and short-video sharing organized around interest-based communities called Vollys, where discovery comes from what users actually follow rather than an engagement-optimizing algorithm deciding what they see. That meant fast, real-time messaging and video sharing at global scale, on web and mobile from day one, without building a complex real-time backend from scratch.

## The Engineering Strategy

HashOne Global built the platform on Next.js and Tailwind CSS, deployed globally through Vercel's edge network for fast load times regardless of where a user connects. Real-time messaging and authentication run on Supabase, giving VollyMe an instant, Slack-like chat experience without a custom real-time backend and connection layer built from the ground up.

AWS S3 handles media storage for the platform's short-video and photo sharing, and Google Analytics 4 tracks engagement across the Vollys communities. Building on Supabase's real-time layer rather than a custom WebSocket implementation was a deliberate trade-off: faster to ship, and it scales with Supabase's infrastructure rather than requiring re-architecture as usage grows.

## The Result

- **iOS and Android** live on both the App Store and Google Play, actively maintained
- **3.8 / 5** Google Play rating across early reviews, with 5.0 / 5 on the App Store
- **Version 4.0** the latest release, shipping continued bug fixes and features into 2026

The web app shipped with the original 2022 to 2023 build; VollyMe's living product today is its iOS and Android apps, both still receiving updates years after launch.

## Technology

- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- React Native
- PostgreSQL (via Supabase)
- AWS S3
- Google Analytics 4

At a glance

Project

VollyMe

Focus

Real conversations, no algorithm

Capabilities

Social Media, Real-Time Chat, Interest-Based Communities

Stack

Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, React Native, PostgreSQL (via Supabase) and more

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