Building HabeshaTok: The Developer Manual

Building HabeshaTok: The Developer Manual is the technical companion to the story of building HabeshaTok from an idea into a real production social-media platform.

Across 23 chapters and more than 650 pages, this book documents the architecture, engineering decisions, failures, fixes, migrations, deployments, testing, and production hardening behind the platform.

Rather than presenting a perfect project after the fact, the manual follows the actual development journey—showing what worked, what failed, what had to be rebuilt, and how each major system evolved.

Inside, you'll follow the development of:

• Frontend and backend architecture

• Firebase, PostgreSQL, and backend migration

• Server infrastructure and deployment

• Bunny.net media storage and delivery

• Video uploads and FFmpeg processing

• Automatic thumbnails and video watermarking

• For You and Following feed engineering

• Livestreaming and livestream recording

• Idle livestream auto-shutdown

• Administrative hierarchy and user management

• Authentication and account lifecycle management

• Security and production hardening

• Native iOS and Android builds

• TestFlight and Google Play beta testing

• Native forced-update enforcement

• Stripe payments, coins, gifts, and creator earnings

• Planning for Stripe Connect creator payouts

• Git branching, DEV/PROD deployment, testing, rollback, and release discipline

The book also documents how AI tools were used throughout development—not as a replacement for engineering judgment, but as collaborators for architecture, implementation, debugging, testing, deployment, and documentation.

Who this book is for

This manual is especially useful for founders, independent developers, AI-assisted builders, technical entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in seeing how a modern production application evolves beyond the prototype stage.

You do not need to be a traditional software engineer to follow the journey. Technical concepts are explained in the context in which they became necessary.

Digital Edition

PDF • 23 Chapters + Epilogue • 650+ pages

Launch Promotion: $29.99 for the first week.

Launch price afterward: $39.99

Regular price: $49.99

Author: amfano04