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Unified live scores, team fandom, and fan meetups into one social app for sports fans who wanted more than box scores.

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Project Snapshot

Client
Confidential
Industry
Social Networking
Platform
iOS & Android
Timeline
6 months
Our Role
Full-stack development + UI/UX design

The Challenge

Sports fans were stitching together their fandom across too many disconnected tools: one app for live scores, a news aggregator for headlines, group chat apps for organizing watch parties, and separate event platforms for meetups. No single product treated "being a fan" as a social activity rather than a passive data feed.

The specific gap was that existing live-score apps stopped at the scoreboard. They told you the result but gave fans no way to react together, organize a real-world meetup around a match, or build community around a shared team across leagues like IPL, FIFA, NBA, and MLB simultaneously. Fans following multiple leagues — a common pattern in cricket- and football-loving markets — had no unified home base.

The business cost of this fragmentation was churn: fans would open a scores app for thirty seconds and leave, generating almost no engagement depth or ad/sponsorship value, while the actual social behavior around sports — trash talk, meetup planning, group chats — happened on generic messaging apps that captured none of the sports context or monetization potential.

The build needed to handle real-time score updates across four+ leagues, a scalable team-following and personalization model, and native messaging/group infrastructure — essentially merging a sports-data product with a social-network product without either half feeling bolted on.

Our Solution

We structured onboarding around personalization from the first screen: users pick favorite sports and leagues (ICC World Cup, IPL, Boxing, FIFA, NBA, Tennis, MLB, NFL), then drill into specific teams per league (Chennai Super Kings, for example, inside IPL). This selection directly drives the Live Scores home feed, so the app feels tailored rather than generic from session one.

The Live Scores tab uses tabbed league navigation with quick-access team avatars up top and a card-based match list showing live score state (overs, sets, innings as relevant per sport) with a notification bell surfacing unread alerts. Tapping into a match opens a three-pane detail — Score Stats, Schedule, News — with a native news feed styled like a social post (like/comment counts) so match coverage doubles as shareable content rather than a plain box score.

The social layer is where FanMeUp differentiates: a My Events tab lets fans create real-world meetups (a football match, a viewing party) with location, headcount, and schedule fields, then invite specific fans by name through a searchable multi-select modal. A parallel Messages tab supports both 1:1 fan chats and persistent Groups (e.g., "Football Challengers," "Soccer Lovers") with avatar stacks, attachments, and camera capture built directly into the composer — giving fans the same chat fluency they expect from mainstream messaging apps, but scoped around shared sports interest.

Architecturally, we used a real-time data pipeline for score updates (websocket-based push to avoid polling drain), a normalized league/team/match schema that scales to adding new leagues without a data-model rewrite, and a chat backend built for both direct and group threads with media support. The app shipped iOS-first with Android following in the same release window.

The Impact

FanMeUp gave sports fans a single app that combined the utility of a scores tracker with the stickiness of a social network — turning a thirty-second check-in habit into sessions built around match-day chat, event planning, and news engagement. League personalization at onboarding meant the home feed felt relevant immediately rather than requiring manual setup.

Illustrative metrics: average session length roughly tripled versus a scores-only benchmark, group chat activity peaked sharply during live matches, and My Events meetups showed strong repeat usage among fans who created a first event. The roadmap ahead includes richer highlight-clip sharing directly inside match threads.

Key Features

What We Built

Multi-League Live Scores

Real-time score cards across IPL, FIFA, NBA, MLB, and more in one feed.

Personalized Team Following

Onboarding lets fans pick sports, leagues, and specific favorite teams.

Social Match News

News feed styled with likes and comments so coverage doubles as content.

Fan-Organized Events

Create real-world meetups with location, headcount, and schedule details.

Group & Direct Messaging

Persistent fan group chats with media attachments and camera capture.

Live Match Alerts

Notification bell surfaces score updates and news for followed teams.

Tech Stack

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Node.js
  • Socket.io
  • Firebase
  • PostgreSQL

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“FanMeUp is the first app where our fan community actually organizes the watch party instead of just checking the score.”

Daniel Osei

Head of Product, FanMeUp

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