NubiSoft

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am founder and CTO of Triptech Inc. a small software startup in Vancouver. We build custom made SaaS products to local businesses. Our main clientele are in academics and education sector.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to build an MVP for a new product. We needed a skilled team to deliver the product, given the circumstances:

• Time constraint: we wanted this to be shipped fast
• Agility: the features and design were changing during the development as we were getting feedback
• Technology: we were very specific about the tech stack that is used for this purpose.
• Attention to details: we wanted to test not only the features but also the aesthetics of the MVP as it is being tested in the pilot with some beta users

SOLUTION

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

We had three rounds of interview with Nubisoft. We asked to provide us with time and budget estimate. We were very picky about the expertise and ability to communicate. After two face to face interviews on Skype, we were sure that Nubisoft was the team that could be up to our standards.

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

The goal was to make a minimum viable product (MVP) for a productivity app. We broke down the project into small pieces. We provided Nubisoft with detail design of the UX and UI elements. The project was developed from the scratch, and finally deployed on our servers, and it is now ready to use.

Features included timeline, projects and member, updates and missing updates, comments, notification, calendar, etc. Tech stack: Java Spring, React, Postgres, AWS

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

We were in direct communication with 3 members of Nubisoft. The manager, backend and frontend developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The delivered project was up to our expectations. We will continue our collaboration with Nubisoft during the pilot.

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

The team was always available for a call. We had daily update in form of text or call in Skype. Project management and ticketing was done in Gitlab.

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

Nubisoft has brought a great expertise. We were impressed by ease of communication. The engineers are very focused and can take most of the job with minimal guidance. Every time we had something missing in our design or logic of the app, they were able to suggest changes, alternatives or improvements.

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

Great job overall.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

With the CodingLab platform we help match IT freelancers with clients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire NubiSoft?

Setting up a complex CI / CD environment for development, testing and automatic deployment

What were your goals for this project?

To be confident in developing, testing and deploying software

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

This vendor is selected after reviewing other vendors and seeing that they not only know what they want, they added some suggestions to it.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

A devops team that knows how to setup systems for success

What was the team composition?

There was one engineer assigned to the task

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It has increased the stability, testability and performance of our application. Besides that we feel confident that the systems are working as expected

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

It was arranged by Lucas, he has setup a SCRUM board for my to see every week what is going on. On top of that every week I had a new feature I can directly get started on.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their ability to think with their clients and know what I need and is best for me is impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement?

What I can think of is that it would be nice if the team could put more hours into it so I can get my project faster. On top of that it would be nice if there is something written down as I sometimes send a chat of what to do. So we can trace it

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a founder of a company that helps drivers from main polish cities to earn money by using driving applications such as Uber, Bolt, and FreeNow. We help them pay taxes, get required licenses, etc.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire NubiSoft?

As for now all settlements with drivers were done manually. We had to download CSV files from Uber/Bolt, convert them to our internal format by hand and then use an excel spreadsheet to calculate the payout amount. Later we need to export it to PDF and attach it to a personalized email we send to a driver.

Also, bank transfers were done manually. All data files we produced were stored on a local disk, which we need to constantly backup. This was a serious blocker to grow our business since it was a time consuming and error-prone process.

What were your goals for this project?

We asked NubiSoft to develop a web application, which would streamline the settlement process and give drivers on-line access to the settlement details and payouts.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

NubiSoft was recommended by a freelancer which we hired previously to do the MVP. Because we had a lot of ideas and tight deadlines he wasn't able to complete the project and contacted us with them.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

NubiSoft designed, implemented and deployed the full flagged product from the ground up. After spending a few days discussing all business rules and requirements they started to provide milestones every 2 weeks. We then had time to review and gave them feedback. Once the core system functionality was stable they started to propose new features and improvements which added additional value to the whole system (like using QR code for bank transfers, email notifications, etc.).

What was the team composition?

The project team was about 4 people plus one dedicated person for contact, which acted as a manager. The team provided all required artifacts for each component of the system like database design, UI/UX, backend services and API integrations.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

With the new web application, we can now complete the settlement process for all drivers in a couple of hours rather than 2-3 days like before. Thanks to the cloud technologies they used the problem of data backup and security were also solved. We now can focus on other parts of our business and hire new drivers in new cities.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Project management was arranged very well. The team delivered the work mostly on time. In case of any issues, we had quick calls that solved the problems. Every two week we had a demo/review where we discussed the road map and did the prioritization.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

NubiSoft was very responsive to all our queries. If we found a bug or a problem they immediately came up with a solution.

Are there any areas for improvement?

The minor thing that could be improved is that they changed the final UI/UX a few times which caused that we had to change our habits while using/testing the application. But overall it was a gain because now the UI is very clean and ergonomic.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CodeCape is a relatively small company providing specialized consulting IT services for healthcare entities and healthcare IT companies. Despite the short presence on the market (CodeCape was founded in 2019), both CodeCape founders are present in the healthcare industry for more than twenty years. I am the co-founder of CodeCape and serve there as CFO and Project Manager.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire NubiSoft?

Lately, we were engaged by Asseco Poland company to help with building a broker of medical events. A part of this project was an infrastructure to share medical events between several parties of the whole solution. We designed a component fulfilling this requirement basing on the JMS standard. Asseco asked us to implement a so designed component but we had no free development resources to do that. So we subcontracted this task to NubiSoft company.

What were your goals for this project?

The main goal was to deliver a new solution to integrate the platform being built by Asseco with components of other vendors. The aim was to do it in an asynchronous way using some queuing mechanisms to limit the efficiency impact on the main database.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

After some research on the Internet, we luckily found the potential vendor having an office located in the same office building as we are. We talked to them inviting them to make an offer (similarly like with some others), and it appeared that their offer was the most attractive.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

We have provided an overall design and business requirements. All the other was on the NubiSoft side. They took care of the detailed project, setting up a development environment with all the continuous integration stuff and with unit testing. They also prepared as-built technical documentation. They worked using agile methodology giving us feedback every two weeks.

What was the team composition?

The NubiSoft team consisted of scrum master, system architect, two developers and one tester working also as a documentalist. We provided the product owner from our side.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Subcontracting development activities to NubiSoft have let us focus on our main specialization - i.e. consulting. Our programmers were busy this time on other projects so it also allowed meeting the deadlines for other customers.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The cooperation was very fruitful. The meeting dates were kept. The deadline was kept as well. Because we are often working remote (at the client offices), we were communicating with NubiSoft team not only in person. We were using slack and skype and also dedicated software development platforms such as Jira and Gitlab as well.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

What impressed us the most, was the technical skills of all the team, but also the feeling of responsibility of each development team member for the final product. They introduced some valuable conceptual improvements to our design.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Honestly this time we are not able to point any improvement areas.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the CFO and co-founder of Campstar, a camping startup. We do bookings for camping, onsite accommodations, rentals.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with NubiSoft?

We needed help with web development, and as a lean startup, we lacked enough tech developers on our side to make it happen ourselves.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

After some initial meetings with NubiSoft, we decided to use them to do programming for our tech stack. They helped us define what we want. Our product manager sent the definitions to NubiSoft on exactly what we wanted to achieve.

NubiSoft worked on both front- and backend. They developed the booking engine for the campground facility and connected it to the channel managers—that way, we had instant bookability for our customers. They implemented all the features like payment, login, and back office features for our customer care engines. There was a lot of backend work. 

They developed our self-management tool for campgrounds: it lets each campground can put their profiles up and change it whenever they want. They also helped us a lot with the frontend development. We had our own UX designers that defined what we wanted and how it should work. They did the entire work for campground booking in terms of frontend design. 

For the RV booking, NubiSoft mainly did the design, but also in several aspects for the backend as well. We did the main part of the RV booking backend, but they did some microservices like payments.

What is the team composition?

Some weeks, there are 2–3 people; sometimes, there are 5-6. It all depends on the speed and needs we have. They are very flexible and adjust to our needs.

How did you come to work with NubiSoft?

We got acquainted through some family connections.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent $200,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in November 2018, and the work is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We got a lot of highly positive feedback from our customers and investors after NubiSoft implemented the work that they did. Features like our search bar started to work much better than before, and the number of bugs dropped. The design is very intuitive. We’ve had a good experience working with them.

How did NubiSoft perform from a project management standpoint?

The beginning was difficult at first, but after a few weeks, we adjusted to each other. We had a lot of conversations, and it worked really well. As a team of professionals, NubiSoft has a lot of experience and knows what they’re doing. They ask questions to make sure they understood what it is we wanted to achieve. We worked in sprints and were on time 99% of the time. We also used project management tools to guide the project.

What did you find most impressive about them?

NubiSoft's main asset is the seniority of its developers. They have a very clear picture of what they want to deliver and can explain how they’d solve problems before delivery. Because of their experience in a lot of different projects, they can quickly turn around solutions that are scalable and up-to-date with the newest technologies. We can really rely on NubiSoft. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

In the beginning, we lost 1–2 weeks in finding how we work together. In the initial workshop, it’d be better that they propose the way they’d like to work with us.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Communicate clearly with them, and they’ll deliver what you expect. You need to give them a precise description and agreed-upon price if you want them to work in this way.  

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of Tech4Stars

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Production of automated solutions (hardware& software) for photography.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire NubiSoft to accomplish?

• Custom mobile application
• New website

SOLUTION

How did you find NubiSoft?

• Referral
• Clutch Site

Why did you select NubiSoft over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Good value for cost
• Referred to me

How many teammates from NubiSoft were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Nubisoft have prepared for us custom application both for IOS and Android systems, which can control our hardware remotely. Prepared mobile app can work in two modes (basic and premium). The most difficult task was an implementation of the efficient and reliable control algorithms.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

New mobile app which we can share with our customers. New company website.

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

They delivered all tasks and goals on time with high quality. Collaboration was perfect. Every suggestion and comment have been carefully heard and examined. For every issue they have presented many solutions and options. I appreciate them for their patience and focus on details. 

I will definitely do more projects with them in the future.

What was your primary form of communication with NubiSoft?

Virtual Meeting

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

Individual approach, open mind and willingness to complete ambitious tasks.

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

Nothing comes to my mind.