Mobile Product on an Accelerated Timeline

Built and Delivered On Time

Industry: Corporate Mobility & Transportation
Service: Cross-Platform Mobile Development|React Native + Ruby on Rails|Agile Sprint Delivery|MVP-to-Production Hand-off

Overview

The client needed help building mobile products on an accelerated timeframe. Sphere was asked to build a mobile application that allows employees to pay for a taxi using a corporate account.

The goal: ship an MVP within three months, share 90%+ of the code between iOS and Android, and preserve important structural commonalities between mobile and the existing web version — all while requirements remained fluid and features were added or removed with every sprint.

How We Solved It

Sphere ran a tight, three-month engagement with three developers, one designer, and two shared QA analysts. The team used Slack and Jira with bi-weekly sprints, in-person and video sync meetings, and a familiar agile loop: business requirements → designs → review → development → QA → release. The technical decisions were the difference between hitting the deadline and missing it:

1. Cross-Platform with React Native
Standard mobile development approaches (Swift for iOS, Java for Android) wouldn’t fit the budget or the timeframe. React Native — JavaScript under the hood, just like the existing React.js web app — let mobile developers reverse-engineer the web feature logic and reuse a single code base across iOS and Android, dramatically cutting build and maintenance cost.
2. Ruby on Rails Backend
Ruby on Rails powered the backend, with the same business logic exposed to mobile and web. The shared API kept iOS, Android, and web consistent and reduced surface area for bugs as features moved between platforms.
3. Tight Sprint Discipline & Tooling
Bi-weekly sprints, design hand-offs in Zeplin, source control in GitHub, code-quality monitoring in Codeclimate, error reporting via Airbrake, and Jira for planning kept a fluid scope honest. The discipline meant the team could absorb scope changes without slipping the three-month deadline.

Key Outcomes

MVP Delivered in 3 Months

The MVP was completed within the three-month deadline, released for internal use, and shipped publicly after acceptance testing.

90%+ Code Reuse Across iOS & Android

A single React Native code base served both platforms, drastically reducing build cost and maintenance overhead.

20% of Platform Orders

Within the first months of public release, the new mobile app was responsible for 20% of all orders on the platform — and growing every week.

No Slipped Deadlines

Despite a fluid scope with features added and dropped every sprint, the project hit every release window without compromising quality.

The Results

A working MVP shipped within the three-month deadline, was used internally first, then publicly. Today the app accounts for 20% of all orders on the platform — a number that continues to grow every week — proving that an accelerated cross-platform build can deliver real production traction without cutting corners.

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Lee Ebreo

VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja

These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system and if we did not partner with Sphere to help us achieve our goals.

Selah Ben-Haim

VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors

Our experience with Sphere and their team has been and continues to be fantastic. We keep throwing new projects at them, and they keep knocking them out of the park (including the rescue of a project that was previously bungled by another vendor).

Ben Crawford

Senior Product Manager at Enova Financial

I would expect to be delighted. It's been a really positive experience, working with Sphere, and I would expect you to have the same.

Mark Friedgan

CEO at CreditNinja

Sphere consistently prioritizes the needs of their clients, demonstrating both agility and teamwork. As an offshore team, they have been an integral part of our organization and we plan to continue growing with them.

René Pfitzner

Co-Founder at Experify

Sphere provided excellent full-stack development manpower to augment our team and help push our product forward. They are easy to work with, tech-savvy and proactive.

Bruce Burdick

Chief Information Officer at Integra Credit

We've been working with Sphere and its excellent consultants since our founding. I've found that they are true partners in the success of our business.

Jemal Swoboda

CEO at Dabble

The resources and developers that Sphere Software provides are skilled and have the required technical expertise, but more importantly, they have helped us build a culture of excellence within our team.

Arthur Tretyak

Founder and CEO at IntegraCredit

With Sphere, we were able to migrate in half the time it would take to train an additional FTE… and for a fraction of the cost. Our experience with Sphere has been exceptional.

Lee Ebreo

VP of Engineering at Credit Ninja

These things would not have been achievable if we did not build our own in-house system and if we did not partner with Sphere to help us achieve our goals.

Selah Ben-Haim

VP of Engineering at Prominence Advisors