gowithYamo

Mobile-first art discovery platform redesigned, stabilized, and continuously improved for real-world product growth.

UKMobileBackendAWSRefactoring

Overview

gowithYamo is a mobile platform built to help users discover galleries, exhibitions, artists, and art-related events across the UK.

Since August 2024, mile.dev has been responsible for the mobile app takeover, improving the architecture of both mobile apps and backend services, and continuing development through structured weekly delivery, testing, and release cycles.

The challenge

Stabilizing and restructuring an already live product

When mile.dev took over gowithYamo, the platform was already live, but its mobile apps and backend services were difficult to maintain, unstable in production, and slowed down by poor underlying structure.

This meant dealing with:

unstable mobile releases and slow development turnaround
outdated backend infrastructure and dependencies
database structures that were difficult to query, update, and scale
the need to refactor live systems without disrupting the product
the need to improve delivery quality while continuing feature development

The goal was to turn an unstable product into a maintainable, scalable platform that could keep evolving reliably.

What we built

Continuous development of native iOS and Android applications

Refactoring of backend services and data structures

Migration from outdated infrastructure to a modern AWS environment

Product features for events, challenges, reviews, profiles, and activity tracking

Structured testing, beta distribution, and release management

Improved stability, maintainability, and delivery workflow across the platform

Architecture & delivery

gowithYamo required both technical restructuring and ongoing product delivery. Rather than pausing development completely, mile.dev improved the system incrementally — refactoring core data structures, modernizing infrastructure, and continuing to ship features through a structured release process.

This allowed the platform to become more stable and future-proof without losing momentum.

Native iOS application in Swift

Native Android application in Kotlin

PHP / Laravel backend modernization

Migration from DigitalOcean to AWS infrastructure

Refactoring of database relationships and legacy data structures

Beta distribution, staging workflows, and controlled release cycles

Elasticsearch-powered filtering and search functionality

Integrations for payments, maps, storage, and real-time communication

Outcome

Since August 2024, mile.dev has continued the mobile app takeover and stabilization of gowithYamo while supporting ongoing product growth.

The platform now supports 53,000+ users, 36,000+ events, 3,800+ galleries, and 18,000+ check-ins, with ongoing feature development, structured testing, and regular releases across native iOS and Android apps.

This is an ongoing partnership focused on mobile product quality, release stability, infrastructure modernization, and long-term maintainability.