Social & Lifestyle

Interactive Realtime Features to Maximize Engagement & Retention Rates

Quickly integrate real-time interactivity into your social platform, regardless of scale.

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Your challenge

Finding ways to make online interactions as personal and engaging as in-person ones is necessary to keep users engaged with your app and each other.

Today, much of our lives are lived online, and for many people, that includes finding love and connecting socially with people worldwide. One of the biggest challenges social media and lifestyle apps face is making online interactions as meaningful and engaging as in-person ones. Immersive experiences between users keep them returning to the app and looking for additional ways to enhance their experience through things like subscriptions and signing up for premium features.

But to foster a sense of community, there are several questions that app development teams ask themselves:

How will real-time technology enhance user experience?

PubNub enables many user-friendly app features, including instant messaging, notifications, live updates, and collaborative experiences. These features are designed to be easily integrated and customizable, allowing you to create a more engaging and interactive user experience that keeps users coming back.

Can our current infrastructure handle high volumes of real-time interactions?

How can we monetize the app without negatively affecting the user experience?

How can we ensure low latency and high reliability?

Should we build or buy real-time functionality?

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Enhance user experiences & streamline social & lifestyle app development with a full-lifecycle realtime platform

Seamless Scalability

Grow your user base with no concurrency limits and scale seamlessly with no app performance degradation or financial penalties.

Real-time Features

Keep users engaged and returning to the app with features like in-app chat, live updates, reactions, and push notifications.

Data Sychronization

Maintain user data synchronization across multiple devices, platforms, and sessions in real-time for consistent user experiences.

Faster Time to Market

Quickly build and iterate with robust SDKs and APIs that significantly reduce mobile app development time and complexity.

Analytics & Decisioning

Optimize your app by monitoring user engagement, message delivery, and other key metrics in real-time then acting on user behavior, seeing instant results, and then iterating again.

Message Filtering & Moderation

Maintain a positive environment for all users with real-time, customizable profanity detection, and moderation tools to monitor and control the content shared within your app.

Demo

Powering fast and reliable chat experiences in apps

This demo showcases features like instant message delivery, typing indicators, user presence, message history, and the ability to scale chat interactions across multiple users and channels. It's a great hands-on example of how PubNub powers fast and reliable chat experiences in apps!

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FEATURES

Why PubNub?

Social and lifestyle app developers choose PubNub for a scalable and reliable platform that ensures seamless real-time interactions while driving user engagement and enhancing the overall app experience.

Instant Communication

Create smooth and engaging real-time communication experiences for all users regardless if it's 1:1, 1:n, or group chat.

Presence Detection & Updates

Let people know when their connections are online and active within the app to foster a sense of community and camaraderie.

Location-Based Promotions

Geolocation and geofencing for making location-based connections and facilitating localized meetups and events.

Real-time Notifications

Alert users about things like important events, updates, or actions taken by other users to encourage retention.

Reliable Global Infrastructure

A 99.999% uptime guarantee and fault tolerance for uninterrupted service as well as low-latency performance, ensuring a consistent user experience across the globe.

Highly Customizable

Platform-agnostic SDKs to build custom solutions for mobile, web, and IoT devices, while seamlessly integrating with existing infrastructures and workflows.