Media and community Case study
Public chat room website
Chat rooms, private messages, random chat, ad management, credits and Facebook login, with bot protection.
- PayPal
- Facebook Login
- Captcha
- Client
- Online community operator
- Service
- Web apps
- Years
- 2016–2018 (2 years)
- Stack
- PayPal, Facebook Login, Captcha
- Platforms
- Web
Client details are private, so this study describes the client by type.
Overview
An online community operator ran a public chat site with public rooms, private messages and random chat. We designed and built many of its features over two years: rooms, profiles, images, advertising, payments, multilingual support and the admin tools, and we kept the servers running as it grew.
What we built
- Home page, dashboard and chat room design, including private chat and a way to add rooms
- Profile pages, favourites and blocking of other users
- Sending and managing images in chat
- Advertising management: placement, rotation and performance
- Language selection with a flag drop-down
- Facebook login, and PayPal payments and credits
- Random chat and a contact page
- Admin tools for managing users, rooms and site content
- Bot detection and CAPTCHA
- Server configuration and migration, and performance and database fixes
Technology used
| Layer | Choice | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Payments | PayPal | credits and payments |
| Identity | Facebook Login | social sign-in |
| Protection | CAPTCHA, bot detection | reduce automated abuse |
What happened next
- Delivered
The work described above was delivered to the client.
- Operational facts
- Our work on this project spanned 2016–2018.
Could this be your project?
- You need a web application with user accounts, admin tools and reporting. Website and web app development
- You want a realistic written estimate for something of this kind, based on comparable work.
- You work in media and community and want a team that has built for it before. Media and community work
Questions about this project
How long did this project take?
Our work on it ran from 2016 to 2018.
What technology was used?
PayPal, Facebook Login, Captcha.
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