Winning Over Thousands of Users With Native Engineering Support

Skylight is the all-in-one smart family calendar. Their device helps family members stay synced and manage the entire household, from meal planning to chores. As Skylight began growing quickly and entering major retailers like Costco and Target, they faced critical scaling hurdles. They needed a reliable partner who could resolve existing UI issues and specialize in native development to create the truly seamless experience their users deserved.

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CHALLENGE

Skylight faced three main challenges

Missing Native Skills

Skylight's mobile app was built in React Native, meaning the team couldn't build essential native features like widgets for iOS and Android home screens, requiring expertise in native languages.

Device Performance

They needed support keeping the calendar fast and smooth across three different hardware versions of their device.

Scaling Speed

As they scaled rapidly into major retailers, their internal team needed a reliable, high-quality extension to accelerate their roadmap and meet the increasing volume of new feature development.

SOLUTION

How We Solved It

Working as an embedded extension of Skylight's team for over a year, we focused on critical front-end improvements and user-facing features that families use every day.

Smooth User Experience

We refactored core code alongside Skylight's engineers, cutting app lag and ensuring the calendar stayed fast across all three hardware versions.

Easy Mobile Access via Widgets

We designed and built native iOS and Android widgets for the Calendar, Lists, and Tasks. Now families see their schedules the moment they pick up their phones.

New Family-Focused Features

Working closely with Skylight's product team, we rolled out features parents were asking for: Parental Lock to prevent accidental event changes by kids, and Albums to better organize photos for the screensaver.

The result? Skylight launched 12 major features in 13 months — the velocity they needed to capitalize on their retail expansion.

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