Two apps, one marketplace
A React Native consumer app to find and talk to buddies, and a separate buddy app to take calls and chats — with the backend and admin that tie the two sides together.
Trust and billing built into every conversation
Building the screens is the easy half. Zonely lets real people pay to talk to other real people in real time, which means it lives or dies on trust and on billing that never cheats. So the work that mattered was the invisible part: KYC on every buddy, a metered engine that bills to the second and can never outrun a wallet, a moderation console that can pull someone in minutes, and a full user-generated-content safety layer — report, block, content filtering, a zero-tolerance warning before every session — built to satisfy Apple's review as much as the users.
Two apps connected by one real-time system
A real-time, two-sided, money-moving marketplace across two apps and an admin — every part built and owned by one team.
Real-time metered billing
Calls and chats billed by the minute against a wallet, with hard guardrails so a live session can never outrun the consumer's balance — reconciled to the second.
Wallet & coins economy
Top-ups, a coins-and-rewards layer, promotional offers, a Mood O'Meter and referrals — the money and the gamification that bring people back.
Trust & safety
KYC-verified buddies, report and block, content filtering, and a zero-tolerance conduct warning before every session — the controls that got the app onto the App Store.
Admin & moderation
A console for the operator to action reports within 24 hours, ban users and step in fast when a conversation goes wrong.
Shipping on Expo
EAS builds for both stores and Expo OTA updates, so an urgent fix reaches users the same day instead of waiting on a review cycle.
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