Neetter — The Social Home for Gamers
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neetter.com · Founder & Software Engineer · May 2026 – Present
The Social Home for Gamers.
Neetter is a social network for gamers where you can follow games and people, join communities, share reviews, track what you play, and discover what to play next. Every game has its own page with a feed, news, community reviews, and an about tab, and posts are tagged with the games they’re about.
What’s in the product
- Dual follow system — people (Twitter-style) and games (subreddit-style), with chronological and algorithmic feeds plus per-game Trending/New sorting.
- Game logging & reviews — Letterboxd-style shelves (Want to play / Playing / Played), five-star ratings, and written reviews, backed by a nightly-synced IGDB catalog.
- Real-time messaging — Socket.io DMs and group chats with image/video/file attachments, GIFs and stickers via the Klipy API, voice notes, and emoji reactions.
- LFG (looking-for-group) posts, a daily game-guessing puzzle (Gamedle), game news ingestion from RSS + the Steam API, and a Pro subscription via Stripe.
How it’s built
Solo across the whole stack: a Next.js/TypeScript web app on Vercel, React Native (Expo) iOS and Android apps in beta testing, and a Node.js/Express API with PostgreSQL (Prisma) and Redis on Fly.io — media on Cloudflare R2, video transcoding via Mux, OAuth sign-in (Google, Discord, Twitch, Apple), Firebase push notifications, and NSFW media scanning in the upload pipeline. Deploys are CI-driven with database migrations run on release.