Native apps + live maps
Figayou puts your contacts on the map
The Story
Figayou is a geolocation smart-messaging app built around one idea: getting together should be effortless. Push a button, pick the people you want to meet, and follow the line on the map until you converge — halfway, or anywhere you choose. Change of plans? Another button.
Around that core sits a whole toolkit: location messages that stay locked until the recipient reaches the chosen spot, QR services for check-ins, contact sharing and access, groups, polls and photo delivery — with privacy that's strictly symmetric: people can only see you if you can see them.
I built the native iOS and Android clients — the live map with contacts and routes moving in real time, the messaging layer, and the location engine underneath it all.
By the Numbers
Behind the Build
The hard problem in a meetup app is the live map: many contacts moving at once, routes redrawing as they walk, and all of it running on a phone battery. The location engine adapts how often it reports — aggressive while a meetup is converging, gentle in the background — so the map feels alive without draining the day.
The privacy model shapes everything else. Visibility is mutual by design, sharing is always time-boxed by the user, and location messages are geofenced — the content stays sealed until the recipient physically arrives. Getting those rules consistent across two native codebases was the real work.
Highlights
The Stack
Mobile — iOS · Android · native clients
Languages — Swift · Kotlin · Java
Location — Google Maps · GPS · geofencing · routing
Realtime — WebSockets · REST · real-time systems
Architecture — MVVM · Clean Architecture