Shred is a fitness app built around expert-designed workout plans across different styles and durations, delivered as a subscription. It has been featured in Business Insider and in Goop. CodigoDelSur took over partial Android code for the product and carried it through to release.
Taking over a partially written app is a different job from writing one. The code that exists has to be understood well enough to judge it, kept where it is sound and replaced where it is not, all while the release date stays where the client already put it. In a subscription fitness product the parts that cannot be approximate are the ones users notice least: plan delivery, progress state and the subscription itself.
CodigoDelSur assessed the partial Android codebase, completed it and shipped it to release, working against a Node.js backend shared with the iOS product. The work covered delivery of the expert-designed workout plans across styles and durations, the progress and session state that has to survive a phone being closed mid-workout, and the subscription flow the business runs on. Stack: Android, Node.js, iOS, backend.
Partial third-party Android code was taken over and carried through to release within an eight-month engagement in 2020. Shred has since been featured in Business Insider and in Goop. Rescuing and completing other teams' codebases is a pattern that repeats across the CodigoDelSur portfolio, in Etch, HeyConnect and Taste as well.
