2023
shipped
live, App Store + Play Store
Live since 2023 · App Store + Play Store
FrontendLiveMobile · 2023
Ygii App
Gifting app, wishlists, drag-drop discovery, no duplicate gifts.
- Role
- Frontend
- Year
- 2023
- Category
- Mobile
- Stack
- React NativeRedux ToolkitNode.jsExpress.jsMySQLAWSJavaScriptiOSAndroid
01 · Outcomes
What the build actually shipped.
Numbers, not adjectives. The stats below are pulled from production. Anything still live, still measured.
Cross-platform
iOS + Android
shared business logic
Real-time
claim sync
first commit wins, no duplicates
End-to-end
frontend scope
from spec to store review
02 · Overview
What it does.
Ygii makes gifting work the way people actually do it. Build a wishlist, share it with family or friends, and the app marks an item the moment someone else commits to it, no duplicates, no awkward returns. Discovery feed pulls in brand catalogues so finding the right gift takes less time than the small-talk about it.
03 · Gallery
How it looks.
Mockups of the finished product. Click any shot to open it full-size.
04 · Decisions
The choices that shaped the build.
Tech is downstream of decisions. These are the calls made early enough to compound the right way. The ones a code review six months later still agrees with.
React Native + AWS backbone
Cross-platform from a single codebase. AWS handles file storage, push notifications, and the lambda functions behind the discovery feed. Same brain, two surfaces, predictable infra under both.
MySQL for the claim ledger
Wishlist claims are atomic — first to commit wins, the item disappears from the pool for everyone else. ACID on the relational store guarantees no double-claims under concurrent taps; document stores would have left a window.
Redux Toolkit as the shared state contract
Wishlist sync between friends in the same list demands one source of truth. Redux Toolkit gives a deterministic store shape, so a claim event lands consistently whether it originates on iOS, Android, or via push.
Let’s build
Have something to ship?
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