BEAM | Portfolio | Brainhub

Overview

Beam came to us as a new player in the scooter-sharing market.

With $6.4m raised from Sequoia Capital, the plan was to fight Hive and Lime for market share in Asia-Pacific region.

Our job was to make the app their biggest weapon.

CODE REVIEW

MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT

DESKTOP APP DEVELOPMENT

Deb Gangopadhyay

CTO OF BEAM

They’ve had a significant impact on how we build our applications.

Challenge

Prepare the app to support 10,000 riders daily.

Build an API integration to share data real‑time with local governments.

Solution

Hands-on Javascript consulting.

Our role was to work closely with Beam in-house development team to improve their mobile and desktop apps.

Scalable tech stack

Close the loopholes

Our code audit revealed areas for improvements in security, stability, and troubleshooting. We fixed it.

If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it

We implemented automated scripts to make the app fully testable and refactored some of the existing features.

They have excellent React knowledge.

Deb Gangopadhyay

CTO OF BEAM

Crème de la crème

We added new features to the apps to gain competitive advantage in the market.

Outcome

High-quality scalable ecosystem: mobile app, desktop app, and API.

New features, taking Beam ahead of their competitors.

Park right and get a bonus!

Park right and get a bonus! The app shows the best place to park the scooters. Riders get rewarded, rotation of the vehicles increases. Win-win.

New Charger mode

Beam employees can now facilitate the work of chargers and make sure that e-scooters are always properly charged depending on the time of day and the intensity of users.

Local governments oversee

Thanks to our smart API, Beam feeds data to local governments in real-time so they can make quick improvements in their transport policy and infrastructure.