Building a high-performance cross-platform shopping experience
Sportano is a fast-growing European eCommerce platform offering top sports gear and apparel from leading global brands. With an ambitious goal to deliver a seamless, personalized shopping experience across devices, Sportano partnered with Y Interval to build a cross-platform mobile app and modernize their technology stack for speed, scale, and customer delight.
Sportano’s existing web platform was performing well, but mobile users accounted for more than 70% of traffic — and conversions were lagging behind. The company needed a native-like mobile experience that could handle complex product data, fast search, and real-time inventory management, without sacrificing design or speed. At the same time, their backend systems required optimization for scalability, integration with logistics and ERP systems, and maintaining consistent user experiences across web, iOS, and Android. The challenge wasn’t just building an app — it was engineering a unified shopping experience that worked flawlessly everywhere.
Y Interval’s team collaborated directly with Sportano’s internal product and operations teams to design, develop, and deploy a new mobile experience built for growth. We used React Native to create a high-performance, cross-platform app with the smoothness of native experiences. The app integrated seamlessly with Sportano’s backend via optimized GraphQL APIs, ensuring real-time synchronization of product data, stock availability, and order tracking. To handle large traffic volumes, we re-architected backend services in Node.js and PostgreSQL, deployed on AWS, and introduced caching strategies using Redis for lightning-fast response times. Our UX/UI team also implemented a clean, conversion-optimized design system tailored to active shoppers, ensuring intuitive navigation and minimal load friction.
