A social app for discovering events, booking tickets, and finding your crowd

Overview

Fritty set out to give tourists and students in Barcelona a simple way to spot good events, meet like-minded people, and turn a one-off night out into real friendships. The founders were pushing hard on partnerships and community, but the product side lagged: slow screens, broken signup, bugs that blocked growth. They asked us to step in and steady the tech so the business momentum wouldn't stall.

We came on board to give CTO-level direction, shape a clear plan, and build an in-house team able to move fast with confidence.

Challenge

They had a Flutter app talking straight to Firebase Firestore. Security rules were weak, some data was exposed, and writes sometimes failed silently. The signup flow often died mid-way, so new users dropped. Performance was poor: key lists took several seconds to load.

There was no staging environment, no automated deploys, and no logging that helped trace bugs, making testing new features and discovering production bugs practically impossible.

Only ~400 users were active, and peak summer season in Barcelona (their prime market: tourists and party-goers) was already underway.

The outside agency they’d hired had stopped delivering and finally walked away, leaving no internal developers, half-finished features, and urgent show-stopping bugs. Time was tight: fix stability now or miss the season.

Outcome