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MotoConnect — Mobile app for motorcyclists
Role
Founder, designer & mobile developer
Tech stack
React Native · TypeScript · Expo
Year
2024 — heden
Context
Alongside Creya I'm building MotoConnect — a React Native/Expo app backed by Supabase. Real-time data (ride updates, social feed) and performance at scale were the biggest technical challenges. Growth to hundreds of users was driven through paid advertising. Every update goes through Apple App Review and Google Play review — I've learned to manage review cycles, version numbers and users who don't always update immediately.
MotoConnect is a mobile app I fully design, develop and deploy independently. Motorcyclists struggle to find fellow riders or good routes — the app solves that through ride planning and a social network. With hundreds of active users on both iOS and Android, it runs in production.
Store submissions taught me that mobile development has a completely different lifecycle than the web. Bugs can't simply be patched — you wait for review approval while users already encounter the issue. That forced me to test more thoroughly and think more deliberately about backward compatibility. Real-time data at scale made me treat query optimisation and caching not as theory, but as a cost line.