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Product2025 — presentLive

CheeHuu

A live, friend-first map for the water — built so boaters and outdoor adventurers can actually find each other in the moment.

Boaters live across half a dozen disconnected tools — group chats for plans, Find My for friends, Navionics for the chart, weather apps for the forecast. Nothing pulls it together for the moment that matters: you're on the water, with people you love, and you need to find each other.

Role
Founder, designer, engineer
Scope
Product strategyiOS appBackend & realtimeGTM
Stack
React NativeExpo SDK 54SupabaseReact QueryPostHog
CheeHuu — sunset on the boat, live map in hand
01The map is the product

We built the map first and made it the entire product. Every other surface — chats, spots, profiles — supports it. The reference was Snap Maps; the tuning was water-specific: weather overlays, anchorage labels, opt-in location sharing, and curated spots from real users. The bet is that the right map, in the right hands, replaces five apps with one.

CheeHuu — your community
02Shipped

Native iOS and Android, real-time map, friend-first sharing, shared spots, group chats, push notifications. Built on Supabase with realtime subscriptions, React Native and Expo for cross-platform parity, and PostHog instrumentation driving the activation funnel. Live in both app stores, currently launching into the British Virgin Islands as a beachhead through partnerships with charter operators. Iterating weekly with real users on the water.

The map you open when you're already on the water — and the only one that knows who else is out there with you.