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iOS Community Forum & Ongoing App Maintenance for Aavia

Services Covered:

Mobile Application DevelopmentSoftware Maintenance and Support
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Industry
Industry

Healthcare

Duration
Duration

7 months

Budget
Budget

50K - 199K

Start Date
Start Date

1 November 2021

Team Size
Team Size

1-5

Engagement Model
Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

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77/100
Good

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Client

Aavia

mapBrooklyn, United States of America

Project Summary

Vention (formerly iTechArt Group) built a Reddit-style community forum inside an iOS app for a health brand (Aavia), repaired prior forum bugs, migrated backend data from Firebase to Firestore, and now provides ongoing maintenance with bi-weekly feature releases. The developers were communicative, adapted to the client's culture, and worked iteratively using TestFlight before public releases.

Key Challenges

  • Build a community forum inside the app where members and medical advisors can post and interact
  • Improve stability and correctness of comments and post ordering
  • Build out insights, health logging, onboarding, and revamp the Bluetooth protocol for the hardware device

Project Deliverables

  • Reddit-style community/forum page for the iOS app
  • Migration from Firebase to Firestore
  • Onboarding flow and actionable insights based on health logs
  • Revamped Bluetooth protocol for the hardware device
  • Bi-weekly app builds/releases

Project Solution

The vendor implemented a Reddit-style community page in the client's iOS app from provided wireframes and designs, iterated via TestFlight over multiple two-week cycles, and addressed Apple safety requirements before launch. They fixed forum bugs, migrated the backend from Firebase to Firestore, implemented new onboarding and insights features, revamped the Bluetooth protocol for the client's hardware, and now deliver bi-weekly builds. The engagement is staffed by two iOS developers.

Project Outcome

  • Fixed forum issues (comments on wrong posts, missing comments, incorrect ordering)
  • Migrated backend data from Firebase to Firestore
  • Established a bi-weekly release cadence with more reliable forum UX

Platforms

  • MobileMobile
  • CloudCloud

Tech Stack

  • iOSiOS
  • FirebaseFirebase
  • JiraJira

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

4.88star5 out of 5 stars

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

Vention (formerly iTechArt Group) fixed previously existing issues of the community forum, such as missing or misplaced comments and disorganized posts. The team also helped the client migrate from Firebase to Firestore. Moreover, they had a communicative engagement, and the developers adapted to the company culture.

Aya Suzuki

Co-Founder & Head of Product & Experience

Note: This endorsement is based on publicly available client feedback from external review sources.

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