Featured on the App Store in 192 countries, RIDERS connects athletes from all over the planet.
Customer Development
Minimum Viable Product
We interviewed tens of riders and pro athletes to validate the idea and build a product that action sports community really needed. The main problem most of them experienced was lack of quality learning content.
We produced and shared three skateboarding how-to videos, and the results surprised us. These videos reached thousands of views, and we received tons of positive feedback in just several days without any additional marketing or advertising.
On the first day of our launch on the App Store, we got 3,000 installs. Customer development that we bet on in the very beginning paid us back soon enough.
How-To Video
Development
Mobile
Agile development methodology we used from the very beginning gave us the ability to modify the roadmap in every stage, building our conclusions on the real data from Flurry and Google Analytics.
Both iOS and Android development teams were working simultaneously. Core developers continue to work on the product as in-house developers, keeping all of the expertise inside the startup.
Web
We made all Riders content available on the web in order to drive more app installs. Using React with Django REST API and Prerender.io helped us create an indexable, blazing fast website, adaptive to all platforms and screen sizes: from 2.5 up to 27 inches. This step increased the overall number of app installs by over 30%.