Curtinho
A short-video app with no algorithm and no infinite scroll — just the people you follow.
About this product.
Curtinho is a short-video social app built as the anti-algorithm: a chronological feed of people you follow, nothing ranked, nothing auto-playing you into an infinite loop. Swipe right to like, swipe left to pass, and get in only by invite.
It started as a web app and is becoming a native product: profiles can be public or private, follows can require approval, and communities let people share posts beyond their own followers. The rebuild moves the whole stack — video storage, transcoding, delivery — onto infrastructure built to hold up at real scale.
The approach behind the product.
- Built the anti-algorithm, deliberately Every short-video app defaults to a ranking model deciding what you see next. We built the opposite on purpose — a strictly chronological feed of who you follow, which is a product decision as much as an engineering one.
- Two gestures, no collisions Curtinho layers a Tinder-style horizontal swipe (like or pass) on top of vertical scroll between videos. Getting the axis-locked gesture handling right, so a like never gets mistaken for a scroll, took real interaction engineering.
- Rebuilt for scale, not just for launch The original web app proved the idea. We are now rebuilding it natively in SwiftUI on a new Go API, backed by Cloudflare Stream for video transcoding and adaptive playback — infrastructure suited for growth, not just a demo.
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