The Status Network: the members' Clubroom (mobile app)
The Status Network is a curated private club for founders, investors and culture builders across Miami and Istanbul. We built The Status Network iOS app, which brings the members-only Clubroom to the phone, and the REST API inside the club's WordPress install that it runs on.
- Project
- Mobile app
- Our role
- End-to-end (API & iOS app)
- Platform
- Mobile app
- Countries
- United States · Türkiye
- Year
- 2025
The challenge
One community, not two
The club's Clubroom runs on FluentCommunity inside WordPress. The app could not split it into a second community. So it had to read and write the same spaces, groups, events, members and posts as the website.
Private by default
The Clubroom is for members only. Every request from the app had to come from a signed-in member, and the app had to keep the same respectful, moderated tone as the club.
Our approach
A REST API inside WordPress
We wrote a custom WordPress plugin, the Status Network API. It is a REST API that lets the app read and write the community's spaces, groups, events, members and posts. Access is protected with JWT sign-in tokens.
The Clubroom in an iOS app
We built The Status Network iOS app on top of it. Members read and write posts, join discussions and get announcements in the app. It uses the same data as the website, so there is one community rather than two.
Screens
Inside The Status Network
How we delivered
From first brief to running in production
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01
DevelopmentClubroom API
Built a WordPress plugin with a REST API for the Clubroom's spaces, groups, events, members and posts, protected by JWT sign-in.
WordPress pluginREST APIJWT auth -
02
iOS app
MobileBuilt the iOS app on that API so members read, post and get announcements on the same data as the website.
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03
App Store
LaunchPublished The Status Network on the App Store.
App Store
Results
What is running today
One community, on the web and on iOS
The Status Network app is live on the App Store. It reads and writes the same Clubroom as the website, through an API we own inside the club's WordPress install.
More work
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