We’ve developed an experimental / prototype social networking app using corona, and are looking for marketing or / a partner company to help finalize the look/feel/features, and upon completion of the final feature set, publicly launch the app. Alternatively, if you’re a company already planning a social networking type app, we’re open to partnering and using our extensive code base to build your app (if it’s something like this), or even selling/licensing portions as well.
The app itself is a location based social networking type app. A key difference with this app versus other social networking apps is that all groups/messages/interactions are local (as opposed to national/global). So users are basically setup in a little social network based on their actual locations… It currently allows you to do things like create new chat groups (visible from/based on a geolocation, which other local users will see on their map), take photos, use up to 27 image filters, take videos (10 second cross platform .mp4 files), and post to both twitter and facebook. There’s hundreds of other little features (like real-time moving compass arrows that point to a location), but those are some of the more obvious ones.
The vast majority of the code is lua, with a little enterprise native thrown in (for cross platform movie formats, and custom jpg compression primarily). On the server side we’re using a set of php files flying in tight formation with a database (standard LAMP server).
So if you know someone with some marketing skillz that’s looking for ownership/equity in a functioning social networking app, or are a company looking to get into some aspect of social networking and would like a years worth or so of a head start “getting there” (we’re open to licensing the code, selling portions, re-purposing the app, partnering — essentially either marketing or monetizing what we have), direct message me through the forums (little email icon above in the bar) and we’ll see if there is a fit of some type.
To review the prototype app, it is currently posted on both iTunes and Google Play as “localNet”. The placeholder website describing the app is at: www.vipah.com/localnet