Alterset

Social platforms

A neighbourhood social network for Australia, built from zero

Australia's answer to Nextdoor — hyper-local feeds, emergency alerts and classifieds. Grew to close to a million users.

Client
Nabo.com.au
Engagement
Build from zero
Location
Sydney, Australia
Nabo.com.au
Close to 1M users
Five-year build and evolution
Distributed delivery across Belgrade and Sydney

Nabo set out to do for Australian neighbourhoods what Nextdoor did in the US: a secure, local, community-focused platform.

We built it from system architecture through front-end design, with hyper-local feeds, emergency alert systems and a classifieds board tailored to Australian communities and legislation. Teams in Belgrade and Sydney ran it on Scrum across time zones for five years.

Built with: PHP · MongoDB · Redis · SQL · AWS · Bootstrap

Nabo.com.au — product screen
Nabo.com.au — product screen

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