Gurrl Talk

A women-only peer community — realtime, end-to-end encrypted chat to seek and give feedback without the judgment of friends-and-family feeds. Built full-stack: React Native app, React admin panel, Express, RTK Query, Socket.io, Redis, and Stripe.

Play Store

Screenshots

Welcome
Get started
Create account
Groups
Menu

Challenge

Women often can’t talk openly on public social apps — judgment, context collapse, and unsafe rooms. Peer advice needs a private, realtime space with encryption and moderation — not a generic chat clone whose operators can read every message.

Solution

Shipped the product end-to-end: React Native client with RTK Query, a React admin panel for community operations, Express APIs, Socket.io rooms with Redis for presence and fan-out, Stripe for premium groups, and end-to-end encryption on chat.

Architecture

01React Native client with RTK Query for profiles, rooms, and history
02React admin panel for community, groups, and moderation
03Express API for accounts, membership, and payments
04Socket.io for live chat with Redis pub/sub and presence
05End-to-end encryption for message contents
06Stripe for premium groups and in-app payments

Engineering challenges

Owned mobile, admin, and backend: React Native + React JS, cached REST via RTK Query, live sockets, and payment webhooks.
End-to-end encryption on chat so message contents stay with the participants, not the server.
Realtime as a reliability problem — Redis-backed Socket.io so rooms don’t drop when the process restarts.

Technologies

React Native ReactRTK QueryExpressSocket.ioRedisStripeE2EE

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Outcome

Live on Google Play as Gurrl Talk — a private peer chat for women, with encrypted messaging, free and premium groups, and an operations console.