Shimira ITDating app development
Dating apps built for trust, not just swipes.
Matching and swiping are the easy part, every dating app has them. What decides whether a dating product lives or dies is trust: one wave of bots or fake profiles and the community is poisoned for good, and no amount of clever matching brings it back.
We've built and we run a dating platform in production, so we build for the hard parts first, real-time conversation, moderation, and anti-abuse baked in from the first commit, with the community features that give people a reason to come back between matches.
What matters here
What a dating product actually needs
Matching & discovery
Swipe, browse, and match flows tuned to your audience, the table stakes, done well.
Real-time chat & presence
Messaging that feels instant, with presence and notifications, built on the stack running our live platform.
Trust & safety
Photo moderation, profile approval, verification, blocking, and reporting, the anti-abuse layer that keeps the pool clean.
Community beyond dating
Events, groups, and forums that give members reasons to show up that aren't just swiping.
- React Native
- Next.js
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Socket.IO
- AWS S3
We've shipped in this space
HawaiiDating.net
A live dating and community platform, 48 data models, real-time chat, and moderation built in from the first commit, running in production today.
How you work with us
Three ways to engage.
Fixed price
MVPs from $7,500
Full products $18,000–$55,000+
You know what you need built. We scope it, quote one price, and deliver against it, no meter running.
- One agreed price, agreed before we start
- Milestone-based payments tied to what you can see
- Change requests priced openly, never assumed
Time & materials
from $28 / hour
Blended ~$32; senior specialists to ~$45
For work that changes as you learn. You pay for the hours spent, see exactly where they go, and can steer week to week.
- Billed on real, logged hours, reviewed with you
- Reprioritise or change direction any sprint
- Start small, scale the team as it proves out
Dedicated team
from $2,800 / month
Per developer, full-time, see the rate card
Developers who work only on your product, full-time, as an extension of your team, the offshore model most of our long-term clients settle into.
- The same people, month after month
- Your tools, your standups, your roadmap
- Roughly half the loaded cost of a local hire
Full rate card and what's included on the pricing page.
Questions
Before you get in touch.
It's designed in, not patched on. Our live platform gates signups with bot-detection challenges and a disposable-email blocklist, holds new profiles in an approval queue, and reviews every uploaded photo before it goes public.
Yes, we build the whole thing: the mobile app, the real-time backend, moderation tooling, and the infrastructure it runs on. One team accountable for all of it.
An MVP starts at $7,500; a fuller platform with real-time chat and moderation runs $18,000–$55,000+. Ongoing development often works best as a dedicated team from $2,800/month per developer.
Not sure what you need yet? That's the usual starting point.
Tell us the problem in your own words. We'll scope it with you and put the plan in writing, free, and yours to keep either way.