Consumer Mobile Venture
End-to-end build of a cross-platform group-ride app — and the App Store UGC moderation stack that got it through Review Guideline 1.2.
RiderConnect is a cross-platform mobile app for riders and event organizers. We built and shipped the full product — iOS + Android — through Expo + React Native, with App Store UGC compliance and review-cycle gates built in from day one.
The product handles the messy parts most apps skip: user-generated content moderation that actually passes Apple's review, blocked-user flows, reporting mechanics, and staged rollouts that keep older users on a known-good version while new builds bake.
One codebase ships to both stores. Native modules sit behind a thin abstraction where they're needed; everything else is React Native. EAS handles builds, OTA updates handle minor fixes, and Sentry catches the rest in production.
Most ride-sharing and event apps optimise for the host platform — iOS-first or Android-first — and treat the other as a port. We wanted to prove a small senior team could ship a production-quality cross-platform mobile app from a single codebase and learn the compliance and review-cycle gates that hold up so many launches.
The App Store and Play Store rejection cycle is where most mobile projects die. UGC moderation rules, privacy nutrition labels, third-party SDK declarations — every one is a chance to get bounced. We wanted to learn the rules by shipping under them, not by reading them.
Building it ourselves gave us a live product to bring into client conversations. When a client asks "can you actually ship a mobile app, or just a website?" the answer is a TestFlight link, not a deck slide.
One codebase across iOS and Android. EAS builds, OTA updates, native modules where they're needed.
User-generated content moderation, reporting flows, blocked-user mechanics — built to pass Apple's compliance review on first try.
Versioned release branches, staged rollouts, and crash-monitoring built in so a bad release doesn't take the whole user base down.
Built and shipped through 2026. Both iOS and Android apps cleared App Store and Play Store reviews on first or second submission.
Crash-free sessions are tracked in Sentry; the release-branch flow lets us ship updates without breaking older users on slower upgrade cadences.
OTA updates handle minor fixes between store submissions. Staged rollouts limit blast radius when a regression slips through.
Shipping a real cross-platform mobile app — through compliance reviews, real users, OTA updates, and production support — taught us what client mobile work actually requires. We bring that experience to clients who need apps they can ship and maintain, not just demos that look good on a phone. The compliance pipeline, the staged-rollout discipline, the OTA-vs-resubmit decision tree — those are operating knowledge now, not theory.
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