The Challenge
Hiilo had a clear thesis about how distributed teams should collaborate, but no engineering team to ship the first product.
They needed a partner that could move at startup speed without trading away quality or product taste.
The Solution
We acted as the founding product engineering team — design, mobile, backend, and infrastructure under one roof.
We shipped a focused MVP that prioritized the two workflows their target users cared about most, then iterated weekly based on usage data.
The Outcome
Hiilo went from concept to a real product in market in a quarter, with the metrics needed to validate their thesis.
What we built
- ▸Cross-platform mobile app
- ▸Realtime collaboration backend
- ▸Analytics + usage instrumentation from day one