CGS-team

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Book meetings with qualified inbound leads

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CGS-team to accomplish?

• Help map out and develop the MVP

SOLUTION

How did you find CGS-team?

social media

Why did you select CGS-team over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from CGS-team were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

• Define and plan product
• Wireframes and Hi Fidelity Designs
• AI model fine-tuning
• Front and Backend web development
• QA

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The team have consistently hit the agreed upon project milestones

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

We get updated daily on the team's progress via Slack. We will have virtual demos of the delivered software depending on the project milestone.
The team are quick to respond to any questions or to discuss any potential blockers.

What was your primary form of communication with CGS-team?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

I like their attention to detail and communication style, in which potential blockers are addressed immediately and solutions are found.

Are there any areas for improvement or something CGS-team could have done differently?

Building new software products is a team game and CGS excel at collaborating with its partners to deliver exceptional products.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Managing Director of Jelly Services B.V.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Architect and engineer web3 products and platforms in DeFi, NFT, and more.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CGS-team to accomplish?

• Engineer a blockchain wallet application

SOLUTION

How did you find CGS-team?

Online Search

Why did you select CGS-team over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Good value for cost

How many teammates from CGS-team were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Scope of work included a web application, and a cross-platform mobile application, tying into a single Nest.JS backend.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

No metric

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

The main tools we used for communication were Slack. Also all the task management was performed on the Jira. The team's communication exceeded my expectations. We conducted frequent meetings, calls, demos, and retros.

What was your primary form of communication with CGS-team?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They ensured every little detail was right, kept me in the loop, and regularly updated me on how the project was progressing. They took care of everything, from the code they wrote to how they communicated with me.

Are there any areas for improvement or something CGS-team could have done differently?

The team was always ready to handle any discomfort, issues or confusion that came up.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Founder of Stealth Social Media App

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Social networking platform

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CGS-team to accomplish?

• Build a prototyle of our social network

SOLUTION

How did you find CGS-team?

Online Search

Why did you select CGS-team over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from CGS-team were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

CGS-team have been engaged in the full build of a social networking web application. They were provided with a design in Figma and have been tasked in creating all features based on that design. The work is complex, requiring many levels of dependencies within the application due to the nature of it being a social network. Features required include: 

• Log in with email verification. 
• Detailed onboarding pages with both automated and manual entry from the user, and multi-choice items. Some pages in the onboarding are dependent on inputs provided earlier on. 
• Highly stylized UI elements are dependent on various variables. 
• Creation of a posting feature, including a newsfeed, similar to the functionality in current popular social networks, with all the same capabilities such as replies, likes, re-posting, etc, including the counts of each of these. 
• Ability to add or follow other users, with question inputs, with each request to create a new connection.
• Creation of a home feed aggregating all activity on the platform, including surfacing the most popular items and measuring user behavior across the platform.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The main outcome is the full functionality of the social networking application, which has deep levels of complexity. There are various parts of the application which require proper functioning: 

• the onboarding and all this data correctly stored and presented on the profile page, which includes varying of the presentation based on the nature of responses
• rapid speed when users engage with each other such as posting and replying, and correct arrangement and storing of all actions. 

The application has high levels of relation, which requires a very strong database construction and programming aptitude — this has been delivered with our expectations exceeded.

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Project management was excellent. We have two weekly calls, and every day we receive an update on the project's progress. The team replies very quickly via Slack when questions are asked. They communicate well and are very understanding.

What was your primary form of communication with CGS-team?

Virtual Meeting

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

We have found CGS' attitude the most impressive. Whenever asking if a certain feature can be implemented, the answer is always "Anything is possible", and the team has always maintained this perspective that we can do it for you. On the rare occasions when delivery was not as expected, the team has always been understanding and quick, and more than willing to make adjustments. The team is very reasonable and always looks first and foremost to ensure we are satisfied.

Are there any areas for improvement or something CGS-team could have done differently?

If pushed to give one area of improvement: CGS-team could be faster in providing estimations. We are on our third project together and will soon start our fourth. Our projects are complex and therefore, we appreciate the estimation needs to be accurate; otherwise, one party will be disappointed.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the COO of Rolling Square

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are tech minimalists. We aim at creating actually useful consumer electronic products, meant to make everyday life a little bit easier. We work with three goals in mind: functionality, premium quality and high end design.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire CGS-team to accomplish?

• Develop a communication software

SOLUTION

How did you find CGS-team?

Online Search

Why did you select CGS-team over others?

Pricing fit our budget

How many teammates from CGS-team were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Develop a communication webapp with users, speech recognition integration, UX/UI and WebRTC.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

• Meeting the milestones planned within the expected timeframe

What was your primary form of communication with CGS-team?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

Yes, they were very precise with the timeline and the milestones. Also, communication was clear and immediate.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their ability to understand and translate the client's vision into a practical software solution. They demonstrated great attention to detail and commitment to excellence. Additionally, their professionalism and dedication to timelines are unique attributes that stood out in the development process.

Are there any areas for improvement or something CGS-team could have done differently?

there were a few minor misunderstandings, but generally very negligible and fixed quickly

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the co-founder of Joytec Labs, a company that creates SaaS apps and e-commerce products.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Code Generation, and what were your goals?

After the creation of the prototype, I needed a team to refactor the codebase and add additional functionality to get us to production.

SOLUTION

How did you select Code Generation and what were the deciding factors?

I found the team through Upwork and was interested in working with them because they had the necessary backend experience I was looking for and because all interactions with them were very professional and painless.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Refactoring of an existing JavaScript serverless microservices codebase, addition of data ingestion features, and creation of production lane in a cloud services provider.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2 people, including a full-stack developer and a project manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The team exceeded my expectations by delivering on time and by their code quality. As a developer myself, I was pleased that I rarely had to suggest changes to the Code Generation team.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

Twice weekly standup meetings on Zoom and frequent communication via Slack.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their reliability, friendliness, and quality of work.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Can't think of any improvements -- would definitely work with them again on my next project!