Datingular API

Problem

Dating and social apps share a backend problem that’s easy to underestimate: they need real-time messaging, a public API third parties can build on, an administration system to run the platform day to day, and — because the product is full of strangers contacting each other — serious protection against fake accounts and abuse from day one, not bolted on after launch.

Approach

We built Datingular API as a standalone backend platform rather than a feature of any single app, so it could support more than one product from the start. That meant a public REST API for core dating-app functionality, WebSockets for real-time chat, and a full administration interface for platform operators — plus fraud prevention as a first-class part of the architecture rather than an afterthought.

Stack

REST API, WebSockets for real-time chat, and an automated fraud-prevention layer that continuously assesses user online identity, submitted input, and user-provided assets (such as profile photos) against abuse patterns — running on every relevant request rather than as a periodic batch check.

Outcome

Datingular API is finalised and released, and it’s now the backend running iwillfindyou.love — a live consumer dating web app is the platform’s proof, not a demo environment. Building the platform and its first product together meant the API’s design was shaped by a real frontend’s actual needs rather than a specification written in isolation, which is a large part of why the fraud-prevention and chat systems hold up under real usage.