HeyConnect is a social app for organizing groups: chat, activity feeds and the coordination that goes with getting people together. It arrived at CodigoDelSur in the state a lot of products arrive in, with money already spent and a codebase from a previous team that did not work. CodigoDelSur rebuilt what needed rebuilding and launched it on both app stores five months later, at a 0.95 Apdex score.
The founder needed to know whether any of the existing work was salvageable before spending more. The app is a social product, which means real-time chat, feeds and notifications: the parts that are cheap to demo and expensive to make reliable. The previous build had problems in the data model and in the AWS infrastructure, which is exactly where problems are least visible in a demo and most fatal at launch.
CodigoDelSur assessed what could be kept and rebuilt what could not. The database schema and the AWS infrastructure were reworked first, because everything above them depended on getting that right. From there the team completed the React Native application for iOS and Android and built the Node.js backend, integrating GetStream for chat and activity feeds rather than building a real-time layer from scratch against a launch deadline. Stack: React Native, Node.js, GetStream, AWS.
A failed third-party MVP was rescued and shipped in five months, live on the App Store and Google Play at a 0.95 Apdex score, on the industry index that rates application response times from 0 to 1, where anything above 0.94 is rated excellent. The database schema and AWS infrastructure were rebuilt underneath the existing product, and chat and activity feeds were delivered on GetStream rather than built from scratch.
