Party Buddy
Party Buddy is a mobile application for people who want to find company in the same city when they are going out, attending an event or simply looking to meet new people.
What is it?
Party Buddy is built around a simple question: who else is going out right now?
The goal is not to create another general-purpose social network. Party Buddy focuses on short-term encounters: finding other people in the same city, establishing mutual contact and arranging to meet.
What problem does it solve?
Most social media services are built around persistent profiles, follower networks and continuous content publishing. They do not solve a simple situation particularly well: someone wants to go out today but does not know who else is available.
Party Buddy is designed to make that situation as simple as possible.
How it works
Say you're going out → find others → send an invitation → invitation accepted → chat and meet
The user creates a temporary profile and can indicate that they are going out. Other users can be discovered and an invitation can be sent to establish contact. Private conversation becomes available only after the other user accepts the connection.
Privacy by design
Party Buddy is designed for temporary use rather than permanent social-media profiles. Users are not asked to provide an email address, password or other conventional login credential. The service model is not based on collecting long-lived login information or permanent user profiles.
User data stored by Party Buddy is automatically deleted 24 hours after the session begins unless the user deletes the data earlier. Users can therefore remove their own data before the automatic retention period ends.
Private messaging is implemented with end-to-end encryption. The goal is to keep the contents of private messages under the control of the participants in the conversation.
Why only 24 hours?
Party Buddy is designed for temporary situations. The purpose is not to build a permanent user history, but to help people find company when they are going out. When the immediate use case ends, the need to retain the associated service data also ends.
The short retention period reduces the amount of personal data accumulated by the service and supports Party Buddy's model as a lightweight, situational social service.
Party Buddy is not a traditional social network
Party Buddy differs from traditional social media because it is not intended to build long-term user histories, follower networks or permanent records of user activity.
Its value comes from the immediate situation: who is available now, who might want to connect and whether both people want to start a conversation.
Who is it for?
- people looking for company for a night out
- people attending events
- people visiting or living in a new city
- people who want a lightweight way to meet new acquaintances
Technical implementation
Party Buddy is a Flutter mobile application with a Supabase backend. The service uses a relational database, real-time functionality and access-control mechanisms.
The architecture is designed around temporary user data. Automated deletion processes manage the lifecycle of user information, and private messaging is implemented with end-to-end encryption.
Current status
The core Party Buddy functionality has been built, and the project is preparing for closed user testing before publication on Google Play. Testing will focus on usability, reliability, automatic data deletion, private messaging and issues observed in real-world use.
Next step
The next step is closed testing with real users. Findings from testing will be used to fix issues, refine the user experience and prepare the application for publication on Google Play.
We are looking for Party Buddy testers
Party Buddy is approaching the testing stage before its Google Play release. We are looking for users to try the application in realistic use and provide feedback on usability, functionality and any problems they encounter.
No technical expertise is required. The most useful contribution is simply to use the application normally and report what works, what feels unclear and what should be improved.
Testing will also evaluate automatic data deletion, the privacy model and private messaging in practice.