Case study 01 / Social platform
CampusLoop
A student-only campus network gated by college email, accepting the email domains of 1,350+ Indian colleges. Feeds, marketplace, polls and time capsules.
- Type
- In-house product
- Category
- Social platform
- Status
- live
- Built by
- Shaswat Raj
01Context
College students in India lack a trusted space limited to verified peers from their own campus.
02Problem
Open social networks cannot guarantee that a member actually belongs to a college, which invites spam and impersonation.
03Objective
Build a network where membership is proven by a college email address, then give verified students useful shared tools.
04Work performed
- Email-domain gating against a maintained list of 1,350+ Indian college domains.
- Feeds, a campus marketplace, polls and time capsules.
- Real-time updates over WebSockets.
05Engineering decisions
- Verification by email domain rather than manual review, so onboarding stays instant.
- PostgreSQL for relational campus, user and listing data.
- Cloudflare Workers at the edge for low-latency request handling.
06Architecture
- Next.js frontend
- PostgreSQL database
- Cloudflare Workers
- WebSocket channel for live updates
07Results
Live at campusloop.space with public source code.
Evidence
08Technologies
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Cloudflare Workers
- WebSockets
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