CodeToArt Technology Private Limited

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am Utkarsh Mangudkar, Chief Marketing Officer of WeShine Tech. We are focused on University Exam Process Automation. UniApps is our flagship product. It's an exam ERP for universities.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeToArt Technology Private Limited, and what were your goals?

We hired CodeToArt Technology Pvt. Ltd. for development of a secured browser on Android platform for our flagship product UniApps. We provide an online exam platform to students of universities. Students were using various tricks for finding answers to the questions during exams. Like, using split mode, opening separate tabs and searching for answers and a few others. So we wanted to develop a safe browser for students so such functions would disable in mobile apps.

SOLUTION

How did you select CodeToArt Technology Pvt. Ltd., and what were the deciding factors?

They were referred to by my friend who knew the founder. They were having the expertise we needed and so we hired them.

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

We wanted to have a mobile app for our online examination system. Mobile app, Should request and ensure front-camera and mic access - Should not work in split screen mode - Should move to home page (logout) if user switches app or app goes out of focus - App switching should be redistricted.

The Application should get all web(dom) events which the browser generates. - Custom useragent string or header should be sent along with the app version in http requests. - Useragent or header should be encrypted with a configurable key. etc

How many resources from the CodeToArt Technology Pvt/ Ltd. team worked with you, and what were their positions?

One Developer, One tester and One account manager

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The Project was a success and more than 75K students already gave exams using mobile app.

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

It was effective. We use basecamp for communication. And their account manager effectively communicates with our CTO and even sales person throughout the project. And most important they were very much responsive to our queries.

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

They not only run behind in completing the work but understand the business requirements and provide suggestions. For instance, students can use screen mirroring to cheat in exams or record the video to share question papers with fellow students. But they disabled that as well though we didn't add that requirements in scope.

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

They should be more aware of updates in the Google publishing process. They were not aware of the stringent process while publishing on play store and because of that the publishing app got delayed by a week. As per them, app publishing on Play store was smooth and easy previously and have made the process stringent recently.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We have furnishing showroom in India for the last 30 years. It is a family-owned business.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired them to build a highly dynamic website which will be easier for us to use. We had following goals:

• Clean design
• User friendly admin panel and editing experience
• Blazing fast website

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We were referred by my friend.

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

We needed a highly dynamic website to showcase our past furnishing work, ability for us to write various guides in furnishing and so needed good editing experience. The people who will be posting guides and photos on websites are not that tech-savvy and so we needed an easy to use admin panel and editing experience. Apart from that, the website needed to be SEO friendly.

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

3-5 at different times during project duration. Developers, web designers, database designers, owner were involved at different stages.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Still work in progress. CodeToArt is done with their part. We need to now take next steps and achieve results.

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

Communication as needed for various issues. We had to communicate with only 2 people. Remaining communication was managed by the them with other team members. Quite productive communication. Issues were already listed for which we required discussions.

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

During course of project, we needed people with different expertise such as graphic designers, photographers, software developers, web designer etc. They always took on to them to find right people. For example, they had developers and web designers in their team. For others, they secured work through other suppliers. But it was transparent to us. Professional communication. They understood the technical aspects quite well. I could trust them for the decisions they made.

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

We should have worked with this company even earlier!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founder and CEO of hollarhype, a real-time voice communication platform. We enable experiential support and motivation between people pursuing a personal challenge and those who care to support them.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeToArt Technology Private Limited?

MVP dev of android and iOS

What were your goals for this project?

Strong build to gain a Product-market fit

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We were referred. They had the suite of services we needed at an approachable price point.

Describe the project in detail.

Discovery meetings, prototyping, MVP build, bug testing and fixes, backend review based on desired KPIs - 1.0 Since 1.0, I have had a closer relationship with the dev lead and we work together to identify sprint opportunities. The planning process is collaborative.

What was the team composition?

Lead developer/ firm co-owner Various speciality engineers - I did not work with them directly.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Our MVP has good feedback from users. Businesses are starting to pay for the B2B program. This tells me the premium features we built post 1.0 are effective and were mapped out efficiently for a desired use-case.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very effective. We are in different timezones, which works well for me. We can discuss and issue, or solution opportunity late at night my time and often by morning I can review the feedback. A strong understanding of timeline goals from the CTA team is helpful! Especially when there is a lot of other elements of the business to manage on my end and sometimes due dates/parts of the timeline can slip.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They're very collaborative, and the team works quickly. Always asking the rig questions to better understand use-case and desired outcomes.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Maybe picking up on visual UI adjustments. Not in terms of design , but alignment and spacing etc. However, we don’t always provide the most conclusive sketches on our end to work off of.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We work with startups, helping them go from idea to initial launch. During the early stages of a project, we help the founders validate the market, define the problem, and craft a solution. Then, we build and launch the solution, typically in the form of web and mobile apps.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeToArt Technology Private Limited?

We hired them to build web and mobile apps for a dozen of our clients over several years.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to finish each project within four or five months.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We selected them with a trial by fire. Initially, we worked with multiple offshore development companies on different projects. Eventually, based on their success, we gave all our new projects to CodeToArt Technology Private Limited and phased out the other developers.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

In each project, we would violate several rules of consulting. We would keep the scope definition loose so we could learn and iterate. We would start before the ink was dry so we could get moving quickly. We would make changes to the design if needed. They would always work with us to pivot and iterate to make sure the client's vision was successful.

Most projects included a native mobile app, a simple website, and a web admin system. Some also included a full user-facing website as well. They built web apps using Ruby Padrino, Ruby on Rails, SQLServer, PHP, and MongoDB. Mobile apps were built using Java (Android) and Swift (iOS).

What was the team composition?

We usually worked with one iOS developer, one Android developer, and one web or backend developer. A lead or architect would also help out across multiple projects as needed. They were flexible when we needed to shuffle resources between projects based on deadlines and priorities.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

They completed all of our projects successfully. They even picked up and finished a couple of projects that other firms had failed to deliver.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Their leadership had excellent English skills and worked well with us as well as with our clients. We used Trello to track progress against the plan. We used Slack for communication between the development team, our team, and our clients. They were always very professional in their communication with us and with clients.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They were very flexible for an offshore development company. They were willing to take risks with us rather than just creating an ironclad contract and then managing charge requests.

Are there any areas for improvement?

They did their best to minimize the impact of any challenges.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO of a healthcare startup offering nutrition education to patients via digital education platform.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire CodeToArt Technology Private Limited?

Hire CodeToArt to develop user-facing platform ux/ui and make some adjustments to the back end to support implementation and optimize exoerience,

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We posted our project on Upwork and received interest from CodeToArt along with several other companies. After interviewing several and reviewing proposals, CodeToArt was our top choice.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

Features:

• Signup/Login/Forgot password - User-friendly, secure sign-up process
• Home Screen (Programmes status) - It will show programmes
• Recipes - Shows recipes fetched from backend along with nutrition information
• Skills & Tips - Showing skills and tip information
• Profile User - profile screen
• Recipe Detail page - Recipe detail page with video and other information

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

We only needed to coordinate with the project leader, although there were several other team members involved.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Project was successfully completed, containing all the features we needed and more with little difficulty or need for revisions. We are excited to launch the platform with our patients!

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Workflow communication via slack was simple and efficient. Their team was clear and quick to respond.

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

CodetoArt did a great job developing front end design themes and building the UX to fit the vision illustrated by poorly drawn sketches serving as a wireframe/mockup.