- Client
- Cru Social
- Industry
- Aviation · Social · Community
- My role
- Mobile developer on the client’s team, August 2025 to January 2026
- Status
- Live on the App Store and Google Play
- Numbers
- 4.8★ on the App Store
The problem
Cru is a social network for aviation: pilots, mechanics and crews. It has a feed, forums, groups, messaging and a digital logbook. The work was making a pilot’s flying history social: flights logged in the logbook had to turn into profiles and posts people want to look at, on an app that was already live in both stores.
What I built
- The pilot profile: experience, certificates and type ratings, aircraft, achievements, hangar activity, and recent flights drawn as routes.
- Posting from the logbook. A logged flight becomes a post, with photos and video, take-off and landing times, and airports.
- Several aircraft and several certificates per pilot, with checks on logged flight hours.
- An animated action button that offers the right actions on every screen.
- Push notifications for posts and invitations, connected to the backend.
- Link previews in posts, instant post deletion that also removes the media, and chat fixes such as duplicate messages.
- Crash and error reporting across the app, so problems show up before users report them.
How I approached it
Think the feature through first.
The client’s words: I was “very thoughtful and diligent in helping to think through features and UX” on the app. Profiles and flight posts were built from the designs, with the awkward cases handled on screen: flights with no photos, missing job titles, pilots with no certificates yet.
Fit into the team’s codebase.
Cru has its own development team. Every change went through code review, and new work followed the structure the team already used, so it stayed easy for them to maintain.
From the App Store listing
Launch & after
Cru Social is live on the App Store and Google Play, rated 4.8★ on the App Store (September 2026).
On Upwork
“Zoraiz was very thoughtful and diligent in helping to think through features and UX on our app. I would recommend him for front end flutter development”
