YouApp — Like a Local

What it is

YouApp helps residents and travellers in Malaysia discover, book, and pay like a local. Users browse identity-verified hosts offering pickleball coaching, food tours, photo walks, hikes, and classes, then confirm the time and group in chat and pay inside the app. Its wallet, YouPay, turns the app into an everyday payment method: scan any DuitNow QR code across Malaysia through MCash and pay in ringgit, with cashback at participating merchants. The balance can be topped up on-chain with MYRT, a ringgit-pegged stablecoin, and holders of other ERC-20 stablecoins can swap them into MYRT to use as their balance. The mobile app has since been rewritten from Flutter into fully native clients — Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android — to make it lighter and faster on device. As a full stack developer on the team, I work across the mobile apps, the NestJS backend, and the Next.js admin panel alongside the mobile, backend, and web engineers.

What it does

• Discover and book identity-verified local hosts and activities
• In-app chat with experience cards and voice notes
• YouPay wallet: pay any DuitNow QR merchant in Malaysia via MCash
• On-chain top-up with the MYRT ringgit stablecoin
• Swap other ERC-20 stablecoins into MYRT as wallet balance
• Cashback at participating merchants
• Wallet PIN, transaction history, and payment receipts
• Native Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android) apps for a lighter footprint
• NestJS backend and Next.js admin panel