✅ Status: Stable Production Version
Sparse is now running smoothly with optimized performance and core systems fully stable.
🚧 Continuous improvements and new features are actively in development.
Sparse is a modern real-time social platform built for fast communication, social discovery, and a seamless mobile experience.
It combines messaging, stories, posts, discovery systems, and AI into a lightweight and highly optimized web application.
📱 Mobile-first design
⚡ Performance-focused architecture
🚀 Real-time interactions
Visit the platform:
https://www.sparse.in
Connect with me: @sanket
Sparse includes a real-time activity tracking system that keeps users updated with everything happening around them.
- 🔐 Login activity tracking
- 👥 Followers updates
- 🔁 Following activity
- 📝 Post updates feed
- ❤️ Likes & comments tracking
- Real-time sync
- Instant updates
- Optimized loading
A smart real-time notification system for:
- Chats (messages, replies, reactions)
- Stories (interactions, replies)
- Posts (likes, comments)
- Profile updates
Notifications work only on the last logged-in device, ensuring:
- safer account monitoring
- reduced suspicious activity
- controlled notification flow
Complete authentication and user control system:
- Secure login/signup
- Username-based identity
- Profile editing
- Password management
- Account deletion
- profile data
- posts
- stories
- likes & comments
- followers
Each profile includes:
- profile photo
- username & name
- bio & status
- gender & birthday
- followers/following
- Owner 👑
- Friend 💎
- Pookie 🎀
- Verified ✔️
Sparse now includes a highly secure role management system:
- ❌ Users cannot assign roles themselves
- ❌ No API / console injection possible
- ❌ No one can become owner via frontend
- ❌ Owners are fully protected (immutable)
- Can assign roles:
friend,pookie,verified - Can remove roles
- Cannot:
- create new owners
- modify existing owners
🔒 Protected at database level (Firestore rules)
Users can:
- create posts
- like posts
- comment
- view interactions
- open detailed post view
Fully real-time and optimized.
- instant messaging
- reply system
- reactions
- typing indicators
- seen/delivered status
- chat deletion
- image sharing
- lazy loading
- skeleton loaders
- optimized rendering
- follow/unfollow
- mutual detection
- profile discovery
- public profiles
- 24-hour stories
- story viewer
- image stories
- Firebase storage
- story ring UI
- 🎥 Short video support (up to 30 seconds)
- 🎨 Story templates fixed
- ⚡ Faster loading & smooth playback
A dedicated Owner Control Panel added:
- 🔍 Search any user
- 🎭 Assign/remove roles
- 👥 View users by roles
- 🔐 Protected actions (no owner creation)
Built for secure platform control.
- fast username search
- mutual suggestions
- relationship-based discovery
Odoy AI integrated inside chat.
- natural conversation
- fast responses
- Google Cloud backend
- infinite scroll
- safe filtering
- duplicate prevention
- interaction tracking
- double-tap like
- meme usage capped at 1 hour/day
- auto reset system
- performance protection
- Full dark + light mode support
- Auto-sync with device theme
- Smooth UI transitions
- pagination
- query limits
- reduced redundancy
- lazy loading
- skeleton states
- smooth scrolling
- session storage
- local storage
- memory cache
- React
- React Router
- Custom CSS
- React Icons
- Supabase (Realtime)
- Firebase
- PostgreSQL
- Firestore
- Odoy AI (Google Cloud)
Hybrid system:
- chat system
- realtime updates
- users
- posts
- stories
- authentication
Sparse will be open sourced in future.
Sanket Padhyal
GitHub: @sanketpadhyal
Sparse: @sanket
Bhavesh Patil
GitHub: @bhaveshpatil4251-wq
Sparse: @kaii
Sparse started as a simple idea and quickly evolved into a fully working real-time social platform.
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📅 6 March 2026
- Sparse repository created
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📅 13 March 2026
- First prototype launched
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📅 14 March 2026
- Initial public release
- 🎉 Gained first 40+ users
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📅 16 March 2026
- Major bug fixes & feature improvements
- Core system stabilized
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📅 18 March 2026
- ✅ Sparse Stable Version released
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📅 24 March 2026
- 🔔 Notifications bug fixed
- 🎥 Stories support short videos (up to 30 seconds)
- 🎨 Story templates fixed
- 🌗 Full light/dark theme system added
- 🎛 Owner Panel system introduced
- 🔐 Role security system implemented
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📅 25 March 2026
- 🤖 Added Odoy AI caption generator in post creation (ultra-fast ~1s latency)
- 🧠 Integrated AI bio generator in Edit Profile
- 📂 Introduced Stories Archive (view & re-upload expired stories)
- ⚡ Performance improvements and minor bug fixes (web optimized)
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📅 26 March 2026 (NEW 🔥)
- 💬 Fixed chatroom bugs and improved overall message stability
- ⚡ Chats page is now dynamic with live typing indicators and unread count updates
- 🧩 Profile page skeleton loading bug fixed
- ✏️ Edit profile optimized — faster and smoother saving experience
- 🚀 Follow system significantly improved (from ~8s → ~1s response time)
Sparse is now:
- almost bug-free
- actively used by real users
- production-ready
- secured at database level
Upcoming improvements include:
- ⚡ deeper performance optimizations
- 🤖 smarter AI interactions
- 📊 analytics dashboard
- 🛠 advanced moderation tools
We are building Sparse step-by-step —
from a small idea to a powerful real-time social ecosystem.
More updates coming soon.
Created: 2026