Solo devs spend a year building Vloggo, a private video app for close circles
Two spent the past year of nights and weekends building Vloggo, a private video-sharing app. The idea addresses a common problem: personal videos (a grandmother laughing, friends' holiday moments, a partner singing) sit unused in s because they're too personal for Instagram and get buried in chat apps like WhatsApp. Vloggo organizes videos into 'Spaces' — separate areas for family, a friend group, or a partner.
Access requires an invite; there are no followers, no strangers, and no algorithm choosing what appears. Instead of likes, people respond with video replies, so a video of a celebration turns into a thread of friends reacting on video — a feature the team says became the most-used part of the app, unexpectedly. Memories are auto-organized into within each Space, so a trip like 'Greece 2026' stays grouped together.
The stack is with Expo (plus custom native modules for video playback and uploads), a .NET 8 , and Postgres.
Key points
- Vloggo: private video app organized into 'Spaces' for family, friends, or partners
- Invite-only access; no followers, strangers, or algorithmic feed
- Video replies (instead of likes) turned out to be the most-used feature
- Videos auto-organize into per Space
- Built over a year with /Expo, .NET 8 API, and Postgres