The React Native app
Rebuilt from separate Swift and Java apps into one React Native codebase — explore, events map, people, check-ins — with the build pipeline itself cut from an hour to 25 minutes.
A partnership that grew beyond the app
Bloc brought us in for a single Android engineer. The engagement expanded to the app, backend and operational systems. We consolidated the app into a shared React Native codebase and extended the work to the backend, the internal ops tool the team runs the product from, a self-serve ads manager, an on-chain rewards marketplace, and the web. This gives Bloc one engineering team to coordinate changes across the platform.
One team across the app, ads and operations
We develop and maintain these connected systems across the Bloc product.
BLOC Replay
A Spotify-Wrapped-style video of a user's nights out, generated from their activity and shareable by link — shipped end to end, from data to rendered clip to a share page on the web.
The backend
The APIs and data layer behind the app — Java Struts over DynamoDB on AWS — including the Moments, Bites and check-in flows the whole product leans on.
Bloc Command — the ops tool
The internal admin the team runs the product from: featured places, date-wise challenges and rewards, active-tab management, Replay counts and moderation.
A self-serve ads manager
Bloc for Business — a Meta-style ad platform with PostGIS audience estimation and check-in attribution, built from scratch (its own case study).
BLOCCoin on Algorand
An on-chain rewards marketplace — coins earned in-app, spent with partners, settled on-chain with the discipline of a payments flow.
The rewards marketplace behind BLOC Coin
An on-chain rewards marketplace — BLOCCoin issued as an Algorand ASA, earned in-app and spent with partners, settled on-chain with the same discipline we bring to any payments flow.
Clutch
