I built a native mobile app for the entire Heroku platform.
Towards the end of 2023, I transitioned from a job in banking into a full-fledged software development role. I recorded part of my transition in this post.
I was tasked to build a mobile app which I thought was easy enough until I was told I was supposed to build a native mobile app that lets users interact with the Heroku platform as though they were on the web.
Let me cut to it, this was tough but it was finally done within 6 months, with all the Heroku dashboard features and even more. At the time it was hard for Enterprise customers to tell when they were going over their license limits, so we added a dedicated page that shows whether they are over or under, and which application or add-on is causing it.
It also has live notifications (thank God for SignalR) which arrive the moment an event you subscribed to occurs, so you know and can take the necessary action at the right time.
I am very proud of this project because I learnt a lot about mobile app development as well as Heroku. Since then I have worked on several other projects and learnt a lot from each of them, but my heart is still with HK Mobile and its capabilities. I was also part of the team that developed Heroku MSP, and I will share that in a different blog post because it is amazing how it helps people monitor their Heroku environments and stay proactive.
I invite you to check out HK Mobile here and give your honest feedback. Heroku is one of the cleanest PaaS platforms I have come across and it makes developers' jobs fun and easy.
