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Football-first social for MENA.

Real-time match chat, fan polls and a moderated community feed for MENA football fans.

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Timeline

2024, present

Team

4 people

Role

End-to-end product

Status

Live

LiveFZ

500K+

Msgs/match

Live

2025

Leagues

AR/EN

Bilingual

The brief

Fanzword is built for the MENA football fan who is multilingual, opinionated, and online during every match.

The challenge

Real-time chat at 5K concurrent users per match with toxic-speech moderation in Arabic dialects.

Our solution

WebSocket fan-out with regional sharding, plus a fine-tuned Arabic moderation model.

What we built

Six things that make Fanzword work.

Match chat

5K-concurrent rooms with sub-second latency.

Polls

Polls fire mid-match, results visualised live.

Moderation

Arabic-dialect-aware speech filtering.

Bilingual UX

Arabic-first, English-secondary.

Fan profiles

Followed teams, badges, post history.

League coverage

12 leagues across MENA, Europe.

Tech stack

The tools we picked, and why we kept them simple.

Boring tech where boring is right, sharp tech where it counts.

React NativeNode.jsWebSocketsRedisPostgreSQL

Results

What changed after launch.

500K+

Messages per match day

Concurrent users per room

<300ms

Message latency p95

Leagues covered

They have exceeded our expectations because of their dedication and commitment to the project.

Ibrahim El Mohdar

Founder · Fanzword

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