Pwani Tech, project imagery
14
Weeks to first store release
2
Stores from one codebase
0
Migrations to the backend

The challenge

Pwani had a working USSD product with 14,000 users and a six-month roadmap to ship a smartphone app. The team was three engineers — too small to ship and maintain a native iOS + Android codebase.

What we did

  • Single Flutter codebase shipping to both stores from one CI pipeline.
  • Reused the existing USSD backend wholesale — the app talks to the same APIs, no migration risk.
  • Two staged store releases, three weeks apart, with feature flags governing the cutover.
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