Project - A social network built on voice
Chirp is Twitter with short voice clips instead of text posts.
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- Chirp
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- Platform development
Overview
Chirp is a Twitter clone where every post is a voice clip. It copies pre-X Twitter closely, with the same blue, the same column layout and the same feeds, replies and DMs. The difference is that you record a short clip in the browser instead of typing.
I built it end-to-end. Clips are recorded on the device and uploaded to Google Cloud Storage, and playback uses signed URLs from the backend. The feed plays as one continuous audio thread with a single player. Claude Haiku reads each clip's transcript to suggest hashtags and a category. Likes, bookmarks, replies and follows all run through an event-driven backend, which keeps new features easy to add.
Most people use it on their phones, so I tuned every layout on iOS Safari: dynamic viewport handling, sticky title bars and a single scroll container so the feed behaves like a native app.
What I built
- Audio capture & playback
- GCS storage with signed URLs
- Claude Haiku integration
- Event-driven backend
- Mobile-first UI
- Engagement system (likes, replies, follows)