Delivered engagementSocial & Community · $15k – $25k
Faves

Save Every Video You Love

Delivered engagement. Coralsoft designed and built this product end to end; figures below retain their evidence level.

MobileReact NativeExpo SDK 54Expo Router
Faves — product interface
Faves — product interface
The situation

What was in place before we started.

Faves is a cloud video storage app for your favorite social-media clips — kept forever, even if the originals get deleted. Save videos from across your feeds, offload them from your phone to free up storage (users save ~4GB on average), and reach them in HD across iOS, Android, Mac and the web.

Faves is a cloud video storage app for your favorite social-media clips — kept forever, even if the originals get deleted. Save videos from across your feeds, offload them from your phone to free up storage (users save ~4GB on average), and reach them in HD across iOS, Android, Mac and the web.

Engagement
3 months reconstructed
Team
7 people
Budget
$15k – $25k reconstructed
Year
2026
Developer
The Hive Social Network, Inc.
Format
Cloud-saved social-media videos
Platforms
iOS · Android · Mac · Web
Output
A permanent, searchable video library
Implementation architecturereconstructed
React NativeExpo SDK 54Expo RouterTypeScriptNativeWindTanStack QueryReact Hook Form + ZodCloudflare R2ffmpeg pipelineTypesenseSupabase (Postgres + RLS)Supabase Auth
Challenges

Each constraint, and what we did about it.

Constraint

Originals get deleted by creators

What we did

Stored forever, even if deleted

Constraint

Likes pile up in a flat list

What we did

Offload to free up phone storage

Constraint

Videos eat up phone storage

What we did

HD quality kept on every save

Constraint

No way to group by topic

What we did

“Stacks” to organize clips

Constraint

Re-searching the same clip

What we did

Keyword search across saves

Constraint

Nothing carries across devices

What we did

Reach them on phone, Mac & web

Saving a link was never enough — keeping the video itself is. Faves stores it in the cloud, forever.

Results

Outcome, with the source of every figure.

3-month engagement
4.5★
App Store, ~17k ratings.
third-partyCorroborated in the social research doc's Faves section.
~4GB
Phone storage freed, avg.
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Free
To use, no paywall.
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Platforms: iOS, Android, Mac, web.
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Cloud
Saved forever, even if deleted
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
HD
Quality kept on saves
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Stacks
Used to organize clips
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.
Keyword searches across saves
unsourcedPresent in the deck config; no corroborating figure in the vertical research docs.

By storing every favorite in the cloud, in HD, forever, Faves turned a graveyard of deleted posts and lost links into a permanent library people reach from any device.

Roadmap

How it was sequenced.

3 monthsreconstructed delivery
Weeks 1–3

Discovery & shaping

Discovery with heavy savers; mapping the save-then-lose-it moment.

Weeks 4–10

Core build

Cloud capture, Stacks, keyword search, camera-roll offload, HD playback.

  • Capture
  • Stacks
  • Search
Weeks 11–13

Launch & iterate

Web & Mac access, cross-device sync, gamified streaks & merch rewards.

  • Streaks & Sync

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