How a Student Built an Award-Winning App with Stream

Fathul Fahmy developed The Barter App as his final-year university project, which is a mobile-first platform for exchanging services with or without monetary compensation. A key feature that set the app apart was its real-time chat functionality, which was efficiently integrated using Stream, allowing Fathul to focus on the app's core features like service discovery, request management, and transaction handling. The app's architecture involved React Native for the frontend and Laravel for the backend, utilizing SDKs from Stream for seamless integration. Despite challenges like the unexpected behavior of the chat attachment button, the support from Stream's developer community helped Fathul overcome obstacles swiftly. This streamlined approach enabled him to create a polished, scalable product that earned him his university's Outstanding Final Year Project Award, showcasing the potential of Stream for developers with limited time and resources.