MetaLamp

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work for a company that performs different kinds of market research.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

MetaLamp has developed a design system for our surveys, and has also implemented and currently maintains a web application.

SOLUTION

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

We searched for specialists through special services. There we met MetaLamp's CTO and started working together.

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

The metalamp team developed a design system for our research. The system was designed so that we are now able to design new forms of research using ready-made solutions from this system. The development team designed the architecture for our service from the scratch and develop all the research forms we needed. At the moment, we are working with the team to fix some bugs and to modify and improve the existing forms.

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

At the start, the team consisted of a designer and a couple of frontend developers. In more than 5 years the team has changed, now we work with one developer. We also regularly communicate with MetaLamp's management to discuss organizational issues.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The main success is that we use the forms to do research and they work and make our customers happy. I cannot report more detailed outcomes because of the NDA.

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

At the start, we communicated deeply with the team, receiving daily progress reports. Now we contact the MetaLamp team with our requests, using messenger communication.

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

The MetaLamp team is always ready to answer our request quickly in case of high urgency. This is very important for us, because sometimes some problems appear when we are already doing our research and it is very critical for our clients to have everything working well

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

We always discuss any problems if they occur. MetaLamp's management solves all of our cases very quickly.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the product manager of Iagon. Our company focusing on building decentralised cloud storage by leveraging blockchain technology.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Haskell developer: smart contracts deployment and on chain development from the Cardano side.

SOLUTION

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

The Metalamp developer working on our project is very skilled and responsible. We always keep a good communication between Metalamp and the team. And the cost is also reasonable.

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

1. IAG token registration
2. Atomic swap dApp development
3. dApp deployment to testnet and mainnet
4. Developing the dApp for subscription model as part of RUBATO service

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

There are one Haskell developer and a project manager working with us.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project is still ongoing but some development has been delivered to testnet.

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

We have daily stand up with the developer to update us the latest progress of the project. We keep good communication with each other.

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

The company has good resources of skilled developers with a well-organized workflow. 
They help us develop the product and provide daily progess with very good quality results and efficiency.
We are very satisfied with the cooperation between Metalamp and us and their contribution to our product development.

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

The initial time estimation for the project was a bit overestimated but after our communication and revaluation, we both agreed on a more accurate estimate time.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m CTO of GlobalLab that is a Global Student Laboratory that helps children discover the world around them through collaborative projects based on citizen science.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our project needed to be redesigned. We decided to rewrite most of the website from scratch to make it more flexible and convenient for further development.

SOLUTION

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

I was looking for inhouse developers to work with frontend, but decided to try outsourced work. The guys seemed to meet my requirements and I we just started the project.

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

We've started diving into the project with edits to services that won't be remade. Then we started planning the redesign and architecture of the future project. Now we are hard at work on the functionality and layout. The technologies are Typescript and React.

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

Right now we have two frontend developers who work full-time. We also have a project manager from MetaLamp always on contact with us. We plan to expand the frontend team in the near future.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The architecture of the project was suggested by the developers. Such a solution was new for us. Now this architecture successfully shows itself in the project.

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

We work in a staff augmentation format, I manage the project by myself. We use Redmine to set tasks and keep documentation. Communication with the team takes place via telegram and daily meetings calls. They were always in touch and perform their tasks well and on time.

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

I hadn't worked with a remote outsourced team before, and I had some fears that we wouldn't be able to work as well as with an inhouse team. The MetaLamp team shows very good results of their work and my fears were not justified. I appreciate our cooperation and recommend to my colleagues who also need frontend development.

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

It would be great to have backend developers from MetaLamp. But unfortunately they don't provide backend development service right now. Hope they will in near future.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the front-end team lead at Akropolis. Akropolis’ mission is to give everyone the tools to save, grow, and provision for the future safely and without dependence on a central counterparty or to fall prey to predatory financial practices of multiple intermediaries.

Our goal is to create yield-generating products that don’t predominantly rely on inflationary emissions as the main source of yield, and that generate returns regardless of the market conditions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We developed frontend for many MVPs together, about 10, Delphi and Sparta included.

SOLUTION

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

My colleague and I worked with the guys before. Deciding factors for me were their responsibility and the flexibility of the team.

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

A few years ago, we started to work from scratch, but we developed a lot of MVPs, and now we use snippets from previous projects. The technologies are Typescript, React, Web3, RxJS, NextJS.

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

It depends on the projects. The front-end team consisted of 2 people, but sometimes it was about 6. But I know MetaLamp can expand the team if it's needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We developed together a lot of MVPs, about 10.

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

We have a lot of communication with the developers in slack directly because we are working with outstaff.

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

MetaLamp team produces high-quality and clean code. I appreciate the flexibility and responsibility of MetaLamp.

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

Everything is awesome

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the chief product officer for a fintech startup, and we build Blockchain and centralized finance protocol.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with MetaLamp?

We needed help in app development.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

MetaLamp is building our product’s frontend application, and they’ve integrated our app with APIs that extract Blockchain data. The software can save metrics and user information.

What is the team composition?

We’re working with two developers and a project manager. 

How did you come to work with MetaLamp?

A previous job connection recommended them.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $20,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in June 2021, and it’s ongoing. 

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement? 

I’m happy to work with MetaLamp because they’re transparent, communicative, and they deliver on time.

How did MetaLamp perform from a project management standpoint?

MetaLamp is good at communication and meeting deadlines. We use Trello, Zoom, and Telegram to collaborate.

What did you find most impressive about them?

MetaLamp can dive into product specifics and understand details and limitations. They deliver solutions that solve our problems.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I can’t think of anything. I’m happy working with them.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Be transparent and help them understand your needs, limitations, and resources.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CTO at Supercede. We write software for the reinsurance industry.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired MetaLamp to help us build a custom instant messaging system in Haskell, as well as work on general maintenance of our web application.

SOLUTION

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

We evaluated several companies, and MetaLamp were the most professional company that pitched to us, and their experience was the most relevant.

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

We had a couple of initial meetings to communicate our aims. MetaLamp came back to us with a system design proposal, and then set about implementing it in Haskell. They didn't waste time with endless bureaucracy; they hit the ground running and were immediately productive.

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

We worked with two people from their team — a manager, and a software developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

I was super impressed with how quickly the team at MetaLamp were able to design, implement, and then iterate on their solution. This kind of thing is crucial for any startup, including ours.

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

Communication was clear, to the point, and unceremonious. Very happy overall with how this was managed.

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

I was most impressed with MetaLamp's ability to get productive immediately and ship features.

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

I'm overall very happy with the experience; there isn't anything I would wish for them to improve.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Artdoc.Media Development Director. Artdoc.Media provides legal access to the largest archive of documentaries from the countries of the former USSR.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our website needed a major upgrade to match the company's new strategy. To save the budget, we decided to attract frontend specialists from the outside and chose MetaLamp. They quickly and very efficiently set up the user's personal account, the new main page and other necessary pages.

SOLUTION

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

Our CTO has already worked with MetaLamp on previous projects. So we discussed the budget and signed the agreement.

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

We discussed what we needed. Our specialist draw the design in Figma and we wrote technical specification. And then MetaLamp made their job.

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

We hired 2 front enders and also there was one project manager for all business issues.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We haven't got any income yet after upgrade of our site. But we really enjoyed the experience with MetaLamp. Our site is almost ready and we hope our users will love it.

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

We have telegram chat with the MetaLamp crew. We can ask what we are concerned about and get instant replies. Sometimes we had google meet calls to discuss major issues.

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

They act fast and are very professional.

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

Please, hire back enders so we could work with you only :)

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

whatz.watch is a service that helps people to find a movie for home watching. Service forms a list of films you would like to watch based on your likes and dislikes. whatz.watch also provides infrastructure for creating your own playlists with films and sharing them with your friends or service users.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

I was searching for a team to implement my idea of web service that already had a design and a backend.

SOLUTION

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

I've reached MetaLamp team out by the recommendation of my colleague, who also worked with the guys before. Deciding factors for me were the cost of working hour and the flexibility of the team.

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

We started to work from the scratch. In two month we realized the first version of service to production. Now we are working on new features. We collaborate for 10 month and I hope we will continue. The web-site consists of login, on-boarding and main pages, user profile, and pages with film's and playlist's description. The technologies are Typescript, React, Next.js

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

Now the main team consist of 2 people: the project manager and the developer. But I know MetaLamp can expand the team if it's needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The main outcomes are the working software and customer's satisfaction. We now have them both.

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

We have a lot of communication with the manager and the developer. Manager helps me to solve any kind of problems and to find the answers for my questions. I always know about the current state of project and we have regular meetings, where we analyze the work that was done and think over the plan of future work.

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

MetaLamp team produces high-quality services and clean codes. I also appreciate their flexibility and optimism.

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

We collaborate for 10 month and I hope we will continue.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm CEO of RocketCompute, SaaS platform that reduces cloud bills for computational heavy workloads up to 80% by ML-assisted performance bottlenecks detection and automated workload benchmarking.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Frontend development. Goals: support and development of our control panel.

SOLUTION

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

Recommendations from other clients I knew. We did several small projects together, built good relationships and work together since then.

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

We work in short sprints. We define sprint objectives based on the development of our core tech and conversations with customers, then communicate objectives to MetaLamp team, scope the sprint, define resources and deliverables and then do the work. Pretty typical stuff.

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

up to 3: mid devs, junior devs, UX/UI ppl

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Overall experience is great, MetaLamp team is responsive to our deadlines and can scale up and down based on them. We always hit the goals we define, so nothing to complain about.

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

We communicate through messengers (like telegram). Again, MetaLamp are pretty flexible and adjusted to our management style.

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

Quick and flexible - they are the best of what I've seen at their price point.

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

Nothing comes to mind except expanding the scope of their tech skills. Them being able to solve more advanced dev tasks would give us more flexibility in terms of what we can outsource.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Nasport is a sport service that helps people to connect with each other. Service includes various sport types and allow people to track their history of matches.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

MetaLamp helped in software development for Nasport. Developers and managers of MetaLamp created Nasport by proposed design.

SOLUTION

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

The vendor was selected among others based on the following reasons:

1.  communication with the client, especially first calls
2.  precise and detailed estimations
3.  named risks and concerns they might face during the actual development
4.  proposed a strategy for the development process

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

Scope of work: Nasport's work consists of a user profile, settings, list of matches, clubs, and chat functionality. Key deliverables: working software and code technologies used: React

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

2: project manager and developer - main team

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

For me, the most measurable outcome is working software.

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

MetaLamp has a very good client-oriented approach. Based on my experience I would say that company is very flexible: MetaLamp team use meetings, online chat, emails and etc. based on client priorities and needs. So as a client I always know:

1. what is the state of the project
2. when and how I can ask for change requests or changes in design
3. whom to reach and by what question Upon the start of our collaboration I was provided with appropriate and quite precise estimations. By the time I can see that timelines and milestones were reached and the project is on track
4. Metalamp management team always makes sure their customers are aware of what's going on with development progress.

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

People. I liked our collaboration in many ways: MetaLamp people are nice and open and easy to talk to. They are professionals in software development. They dig deep into the business idea of each project and suggest interesting solutions. Thanks to their helpful ideas we've improved UX inside Nasport.

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

Dear MetaLamp, you've done awesome work and I can just wish you can expand :)