Mim - Case Study of Development a Video App

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Summary

Mim is a video app where everyone can showcase their humor by creating and sharing funny six-seconds videos. It took us three months to bring our client’s idea to life. Check how we built it from the idea to a fully-functioning app.

Project Idea

When the first version of Mim as an iMessage extension got so many users, our client decided to make hay while the sun shines and develop a fully-functioning app for iOS and Android.

The client wanted to top up the app with video recording, video editing, and social sharing features. Mim should be more than just an app for creating short and funny videos. It should become a social sharing platform where anyone can share their funny 6-second videos and take part in weekly contests.

time

3 months

team

2 iOS Developers
1 Back-end Developer
1 QA Engineer

Industry

Social

Type

Photo & Video App

Shoot, customize & share 6-second funny videos

Easy-to-use video maker for hilarious GIFs

Mim is a gathering place for people who can’t live without witty and funny videos. The app isn’t just a powerful video editor for making funny GIFs, it’s a community where everyone can create and share hilarious GIFs. Stop searching for funny GIFs, create your own.

With Mim, everyone can become a GIF creator and share their hilarious videos with friends and like minded people. Record silent video, add video and sound effects - challenge your humor and compete with others to get the 1st prize.

Mim holds weekly themed contests that challenge every user to create funny videos and raise smiles. Every battle has a designated topic, prizes, and deadlines to meet. When users submit videos, it’s time for the poll. The user with the most upvotes takes home a prize and exclusive rights to be featured on the app’s feed for the following week. The best 10 GIFs get a “verified funny” status and move up in the feed.

Project challenges

Serverless architecture
Powerful but easy-to-navigate video editor
Shoot and edit video
Process high-quality video
Merging videos, audios and other content together

Target audience

The app is designed for anyone with a great sense of humor and anyone who wants to create and share personalized GIFs.

Results

We worked hard to develop an easy-to-use but catchy app with a unique and engaging experience. It took us 3 months to build and deliver a photo & video app for iOS.

App Store

Main features of the app

See how to create short videos with Mim

Recording videos

The app has access to both smartphone cameras to record short but GIPHY-worth videos.

Trimming and editing videos

Users can cut and trim videos to make them shorter and create funny GIFs. GIFs cannot be longer than six seconds.

Special video effects

With Mim, users can add text, filters, animated text and stickers to any video. There’s no limit for customizations.

Audio effects

There is a rich library of sounds and music to choose from and power up GIFs. A proper sound can make any video funnier.

User profile

A user profile is one of the central elements of the Mim app. Only registered users can take part in weekly themed contests.

Search and filter

Particular filters allow users to quickly find a GIF that best matches their emotions and feelings.

Feed

The feed is a news place. Users can scroll the feed for some new GIFs and videos that are taking part in the weekly contest. While scrolling the feed, users vote for the best GIF of the week.

Tech stack

See how the development team brought the project to life

Development	Tools	Testing	Release
Swift	Realm Amazon Lambda Amazon Cognito Amazon S3 Mixpanel	Jira BitBucket Confluence Firebase	Apple TestFlight App Store

All though very new can’t wait to see what more is going to come from this.

Cielo Croci
App Store

Very funny bahaha! Great app!

mederick mediana
App Store

So glad I can create my own. I wish I could do more with the gif. Fonts and a timeline based editor would be great, like Facebook has.

Heidi Mau
App Store

A great app, easy to use and beautiful user interface, Excellent job guys.

Issa Sallam
App Store

Prices?

Social App Estimations

Would like to know how much it costs to make a social application? You can use our interactive estimations: check all the features you would like to add, and we will show you the price immediately. Then write to us at mail@mova.io, and we will help you with application development.

How to Create Social App

There are lots of social networks apps for iOS and Android out there, but they all have similar core features, whether it is SnapChat, Instagram or Facebook. If you plan to make a social app, read our article that will help you to understand the development process, and will be ready to start - write to us at mail@mova.io

5 Things You Need To Know Before Making Video App

The main idea of Mim - sharing videos, and participating in fun contests. The application uses all possible multimedia features of Apple devices to provide the best and most fun user experience possible. Want to learn more about video applications? Check out our new article where we share our expertise!

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