Increase Development Speed Without Hiring More Devs: How MobileKit Makes It Possible

Aleksa Simic
October 9, 2025
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Suppose you’re a CTO, mobile lead, or technical PM. In that case, you know the frustration: every new project starts with the same repetitive setup, onboarding juniors takes forever, and messy or inconsistent code slows down the whole team. It’s easy to feel stuck, like you’re running in circles instead of moving forward.

Here’s the good news: you don’t need to hire more developers to speed up development. Tools like MobileKit are built specifically to help teams like yours get past these bottlenecks

Why Do Mobile Projects Take So Long to Launch?

If you’ve ever wondered why mobile projects seem to drag on, you’re not alone. Even experienced teams struggle to increase development speed without hiring more devs because of repetitive setup and inconsistent processes.

Every app requires creating login flows, navigation structures, API integrations, and basic modules. All these are tasks that are essential but don’t add value to the final product. This repetitive work spends your team’s time and makes it hard to speed up app development.

Another challenge is onboarding new or junior developers. Without a consistent and clear project structure, it can take days just to understand where everything lives in the codebase. This slows down the whole team, reduces mobile team efficiency, and makes it harder to deliver MVPs faster.

Inconsistent coding practices across different projects also create hidden headaches. Some apps may follow one set of patterns, while others follow another. Maintaining code quality across multiple projects becomes a juggling act, which makes it difficult to accelerate app development without additional resources.

Finally, many teams rely on open-source templates to save time, but these templates are often outdated, poorly documented, or incompatible with modern development workflows. Instead of speeding up mobile app development, they can create new problems that require extra time to fix.

All these factors combine to slow down your development process and make it feel impossible to improve development efficiency without hiring more people. Recognizing these obstacles is the first step to finding a solution that actually works.

How Can MobileKit Help You Increase Development Speed?

After working with many clients, we noticed a clear pattern: teams were spending too much time on repetitive setup, struggling to maintain clean architecture.

To solve this, we created MobileKit: a set of reusable templates and pre-built modules designed to help teams increase development speed without hiring more devs.

Here’s how MobileKit solves these common pain points:

  1. Ready-to-use foundation: Developers no longer need to rebuild the same core modules for every app. This means teams can immediately start building features, which speeds up mobile app development and reduces wasted hours.
  2. Scalable architecture: Every template follows the same coding patterns, making it easier to maintain quality across projects. Developers can onboard faster, helping the whole team improve development efficiency.
  3. Faster MVP delivery: With MobileKit handling the repetitive work, your team can focus on core features. This allows you to deliver MVPs faster and get products to market without adding more developers.
  4. Measurable time and cost savings: On average, clients using MobileKit save 3-4 weeks per project. That’s weeks of senior developer time back in your pocket, letting you speed up app development and increase output without hiring additional staff.

By creating MobileKit, we solved the problems we saw over and over with our clients, and now any team can benefit from the same speed and quality improvements.

Choosing the Right Tech Stack Without Slowing Down Your Team

One of the toughest decisions for any CTO is picking the right technology for a new app. Do you go native or cross-platform? Which frameworks match your team’s skill level? How will this choice impact onboarding and delivery speed?

These are real challenges, especially when your team is already stretched thin.

This is where pre-built templates can make a huge difference. With our Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), CMP, and iOS templates, teams don’t have to start from scratch or worry about whether everyone is familiar with the right tech stack. Each template comes with a clear, scalable structure that fits the selected platform and reduces the learning curve for your developers.

By giving your team a foundation that aligns with the chosen tech stack, templates help you:

  • Make the most of your current team capacity without needing extra hires
  • Accelerate development even if not every developer is senior or familiar with the platform
  • Focus on building the features that matter, instead of figuring out project setup or architectural decisions

In short, using structured templates allows CTOs to choose the right tech stack confidently while keeping development speed high and your team productive.

Benefits for Your Team

Here’s how MobileKit helps different roles increase development speed without hiring more devs and get more done with the same team:

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Role Key Wins with MobileKit How It Helps Them
CTO / Decision-Maker - save 3–4 weeks per project
- consistent architecture
- faster delivery
Makes it possible to speed up app development without extra hires, maintain high code quality, and improve overall mobile team efficiency
Mobile Lead / Senior Dev - ready-to-use templates
- faster onboarding
- scalable codebase
Lets the team deliver MVPs faster, focus on core features, and streamline mobile app development productivity
Technical PM / Buyer - clear progress metrics
- optimize team productivity
- measurable ROI
Helps speed up mobile app development, track progress, and achieve better development efficiency without adding staff

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Additional benefits across the team:

  • MobileKit’s ready-to-use foundation can cut setup time by up to 10-15 hours per project, letting developers focus on real features from day one
  • Teams spend 30-40% less time fixing structural issues across multiple projects thanks to a standardized codebase
  • Juniors can start contributing in 1-2 days instead of a week, improving overall mobile team efficiency
  • By reducing repetitive work, teams can free up 2-3 weeks of senior developer time per project, allowing you to speed up app development without hiring additional staff

Ready to Speed Up Your Mobile Development Without Extra Hires?

We’ve seen it over and over with our clients: talented teams slowed down by repetitive setup, inconsistent code, or uncertainty over which tech stack to pick. It’s frustrating when you know your team could be delivering more, but the small, unavoidable tasks keep piling up.

That’s why we built templates like Kotlin Multiplatform, CMP, and iOS as a practical solution. They give your developers a clear, reliable starting point, reduce the learning curve for less experienced team members, and let senior developers focus on the work that really moves the product forward.

Teams that adopt this approach consistently report saving 3–4 weeks per project, onboarding juniors faster, and finally being able to deliver features on time without needing more people. It’s not about replacing expertise but about giving your team the space and structure to do what they do best.

If you’ve ever felt your team could achieve more, this is the approach that actually works. Give your team a solid foundation, and watch how much faster and more confident development becomes!

Aleksa Simic
Co-Founder & CTO of Aetherius Solutions
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