Consumer

Rescuing an App From Technical Debt

Emergency team augmentation to rescue a mobile app drowning in bugs, crashes, and missed deadlines — stabilized, refactored, and relaunched in 6 weeks.

15% → 0.5%

Crash rate reduction in 6 weeks

2 → 4.3 stars

App Store rating improvement

48-hour start

Emergency deployment speed

60% fewer bugs

After refactoring critical modules

// The Challenge

What We Were Solving

A consumer app with 100K+ users was failing: 15% crash rate, 2-star rating, and the previous development team had walked away. The company needed an emergency intervention.

// Our Approach

How We Built It

01

Deployed 4 engineers (2 React Native, 1 backend, 1 QA) within 48 hours

02

Conducted a rapid code audit to identify the top 20 crash-causing issues

03

Implemented a stabilization sprint: fixed critical crashes, data loss bugs, and performance bottlenecks

04

Refactored the most problematic modules while maintaining backward compatibility

// Key Features

What We Delivered

  • Emergency team deployment within 48 hours
  • Rapid code audit and crash analysis
  • Priority-based bug fixing and stabilization
  • Performance optimization and refactoring
  • Test coverage improvement
  • Ongoing monitoring and alerting setup

// Technology Stack

Built With

React NativeNode.jsPostgreSQLFirebase CrashlyticsSentryJestDetox

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// Results

Measurable Impact

15% → 0.5%

Crash rate reduction in 6 weeks

2 → 4.3 stars

App Store rating improvement

48-hour start

Emergency deployment speed

60% fewer bugs

After refactoring critical modules

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