I was working on an web and mobile application which was startup business of Australia. We have our linode server and database in Singapore. We have a separate codebase for web app and mobile app(APIs). The business worked pretty well and now the client wants to expand their service in USA too.
The web app was hosted as appname.com.au and now he wants to launch the Application in USA as appname.com. And he wants to utilize the same mobile application for both Australia and USA because of not enough funding.
The problem is there will be many additional features/modifications in business logic for USA.
- My main concern is should I continue on single web app or make new app for USA.
- Since, we already have two separate codebases i.e. one for existing web app and another for APIs => mobile app. Maintaining more codebases will be very difficult for us.
- The products that is sold via app should be location aware i.e. as popular products for one state of USA from another or from Australia will obviously vary, features product in home page should vary too.
- The products uploaded to the Australia can be seen by the users of USA but, shouldn't be able to buy and vice-versa.
For this, should we continue to work on the same app or go with the new separate app for USA. Chances are this application will grow hugely in coming days and we need to scale it more thus, we are pretty stuck on what's the right/better thing to do.
Any help will be highly appreciated. If you don't understand it clearly I will let you know via comments. And yeah thanks for your time :)