CASE STUDY / Community & mentorship
Hyve
A place to belong. A path to grow.
A mobile community that connects mentorship, shared interests, and practical learning, giving members a place to build relationships and keep their development moving.
- PRODUCT
- Hyve
- PLATFORMS
- iOS + Android
- OUR WORK
- Product experience · Mobile development · Community features · API integration
Community home
Mentorship & tasks
01 THE CHALLENGE
Connection needs somewhere to go.
Meeting a mentor or joining a community is a starting point. The experience needs to support what happens next: a conversation, a shared activity, a task to work through, or feedback that helps someone take another step.
Hyve brings social participation and structured mentorship together. The product has to leave room for informal connections while giving mentors and mentees a clear way to organise their work, follow a cohort, and return to an ongoing learning journey.
02 THE APPROACH
Create a community people can explore
Member profiles, portfolios, clubs, and events give people different ways to participate. Clubs organise activity around shared interests, with posts and conversations keeping the community experience connected.
Give mentorship a practical structure
Dedicated mentor and mentee experiences connect cohorts with weekly tasks and submissions. A mentor can work with their cohort while a mentee can see the tasks and history relevant to their own participation.
Keep the conversation within reach
Direct messaging, cohort discussions, and notifications connect the structured parts of the product with everyday interaction. Members can move between learning activity and the people involved without losing the context of the community.
03 INSIDE THE BUILD
One mobile foundation, different member journeys.
Hyve uses React Native, Expo, and TypeScript. Separate onboarding and mentorship flows account for mentor and mentee roles, while shared components support profiles, clubs, tasks, and account settings across the application.
TanStack Query manages data fetched from the API, and Zustand supports application state. Socket connections and push notification handling support conversations and updates, with navigation that can take a member to the relevant activity.
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- TanStack Query
- Zustand
- Socket.IO
04 THE DELIVERY
Community with a sense of direction.
Hyve brings community discovery, mentorship, and communication into a single mobile experience. Members have ways to meet people and participate, while cohorts, tasks, and submissions give the learning journey a practical structure.
- Clubs, events, and member profiles
- Mentor and mentee cohort experiences
- Tasks, conversations, and notifications