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Parents & Kids

Parenting discussions, followed topics and a personal feed.

Parents & Kids is a community app for sharing parenting experiences through posts, comments, images, video and links. Topic search, follows and notification preferences connect a first visit with the discussions a member chooses to continue.

01 / Community conversations

From topic search to an ongoing discussion.

The app offers both a personal feed and a view of popular posts. Following people or topics gives members a route back to the conversations they have selected.

Parents & Kids: Popular conversations

Popular conversations

Each post shows its author and publication time, with voting, comments and sharing beside the content. A publishing action lets members add their own experience from the feed.

Parents & Kids: Explore and follow

Explore and follow

Search covers topics and posts. The same view lists followed people and subjects with their recent activity, alongside links to all topics and popular discussions.

02 / Getting started

The community mechanics, explained at the first visit.

Parents & Kids: Your feed, explained

Your feed, explained

The guide explains three actions: starting a discussion, voting on posts and following topics. It introduces participation before the member starts browsing the feed.

03 / Account and preferences

A member account with a choice of notifications.

Parents & Kids: Create an account

Create an account

Registration collects an email address, username and password; a Facebook sign-up option is also available.

Parents & Kids: Notification preferences

Notification preferences

The onboarding screen offers an explicit choice to enable or decline notifications, so updates follow the member’s preference.

Technology stack

The technology behind Parents & Kids.

The mobile application, community services, data storage and cloud infrastructure.

Mobile community

C# and Xamarin support the mobile application.

  • C#
  • Xamarin

Community services

ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Orleans form the application-service stack.

  • ASP.NET Core
  • Microsoft Orleans

Posts & community data

MongoDB and MSSQL Server provide storage, with Entity Framework Core and Dapper for data access.

  • MongoDB
  • MSSQL Server
  • Entity Framework Core
  • Dapper

Cloud infrastructure

Microsoft Azure is the cloud platform recorded for this project.

  • Microsoft Azure
Your member experience

Turn a shared interest into a useful community.

We can connect topic discovery, publishing and notifications around the conversations your members want to have. Begin with the first visit and the reason someone would return.

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