- 2 stores
- one React Native codebase
- 4.6★
- App Store rating
- 4.4★
- Google Play rating
- ~720
- Elementor asset references gone
- Client
- BoatBites
- Industry
- On-water delivery
- Location
- Florida, United States
- Year
- 2026
- Services
- Website, Apps, Migration
BoatBites had the hard part solved. The software was the bottleneck.
Where things stood
BoatBites delivers food, drinks and supplies straight to boats, at anchorages, sandbars and marinas, using a fleet of personal watercraft. Order from the water and a driver brings it out on a jet ski. Their line is "Anchor. Order. Enjoy."
The hard part was already working. They had restaurant partners, a driver fleet, live service around Anna Maria Island and Fort Myers Beach, and press in IBI Magazine, Business Observer and ABC on the Gulf Coast. What they did not have was software that could carry it.
The website was WordPress, built in Elementor. The homepage alone pulled in around 720 separate Elementor asset references. The blog sat at /category/blog/, author archives were exposed to the open web, and every change meant working around a page builder instead of with it.
The app was iOS only, written in Swift. That is the part that actually cost money. Roughly four in ten phones in the US run Android. Every one of those boaters hit a dead end: on a beach, on a boat, with money out and nowhere to spend it.
They had also just come out of a build with a previous development partner that had not worked out. So the brief was not only technical. They needed to see progress they could trust.
What we did
Rebuilt the website in Next.js. Not a theme, not a migration: a new front end. Clean routes (/blog, /careers, /about-us instead of page-builder paths), deployed behind Cloudflare. The old Elementor stack went in the bin.
Rewrote both apps in React Native. The boater app and the delivery driver app now run from one codebase across both platforms. One change ships everywhere, instead of Android waiting behind an iOS-only roadmap.
Shipped to both stores together. Version 4.0.0 went live on the App Store and Google Play on 3 September 2026: a clean break from the old 3.x Swift line, not a patch on top of it.
Where it landed
- New site live on Next.js, behind Cloudflare, with clean routes
- BoatBites Boater on iOS and Android from one React Native codebase
- BoatBites Delivery Driver on Google Play
- 4.6 stars on the App Store and 4.4 on Google Play
- Android boaters can order for the first time
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