The solution

As always, we focused on achieving the business's goals first. This meant executing the right strategy for a strict deadline.

This project was an especially challenging case because nobody was prepared for this pandemic. Overnight, TrainWith’s business model and software products had to be drastically adapted to the “new normal".

Adaptation of current platform

First, we focused on the main goal — to turn TrainWith into a white-label product so that gyms and other fitness studios could release their branded apps to their clients.

We tried to reuse as much of the legacy code as possible, writing as many tests as the code would allow in order to avoid bugs.

We coded some new features from scratch, following the Clean Code principles. This allowed us to migrate small parts of the system without causing any disruption to the UX.

Migrating to a Web-based responsive streaming platform

Once the platform was white-labeled and working properly, we switched our focus to the other bottleneck — the iOS App. The process for releasing new versions to the App Store was cumbersome and not as agile as we needed it to be. Also, the app’s code was substandard, so changes were time-consuming and often did not meet our expectations.

After we identified this problem and thoroughly evaluated the situation, we ran surveys and other customer research programs to determine which devices people were using. Unsurprisingly, Android users weren’t happy about not having an option for their OS. and we also found out that iOS users weren’t pleased either due to the app’s performance and its clunky UX.

Finally, we developed a new web-based version of the platform, optimized for different devices such as mobile phones, iPads, tablets, laptops, desktop computers, and more.