Social Media Webapp
WriteSpike is a niche social media platform tailored for writers, built to foster creative expression, community engagement, and content sharing across text, audio, and video formats. Developed as a custom WordPress plugin, the platform offered writers an interactive, distraction-free environment to publish and socialize around stories, ideas, and collaborative conversations.
Built a rich article creation system supporting text, audio, and video stories — with automatic background video compression and format conversion, ensuring fast uploads and optimal playback across devices.
Integrated BuddyPress to enable social media features like likes, comments, follows, and user-to-user interactions, creating a familiar and engaging social experience.
Engineered a real-time chat system for both 1-to-1 and group chats — including advanced functionality like scheduled group chats and join requests.
Developed a notification engine that pushed real-time alerts for interactions such as comments, likes, follows, and chat events — increasing user retention and platform engagement.
Designed scalable backend architecture using modular WordPress components to keep the platform extensible and easily maintainable.
Created a custom REST API for seamless integration between the WordPress backend and the Next.js frontend, improving performance and scalability.
Integrated payment gateways for subscription management, enabling monetization of premium features.
Integrated third-party services like Mailchimp for newsletters and announcements to help with community growth and retention efforts.