2muchcoffee

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm the co-founder of a development agency that builds various software products. Recently, we've been working on social media applications. 

What challenge were you trying to address with 2muchcoffee?

We hired 2muchcoffee to evaluate our junior developers' code. 

What was the scope of their involvement?

For this project, 2muchcoffee conducted in-depth code reviews — they went over our back- and frontend and API codebases. Their team also reviewed our best practices and helped us establish work standards. Then, 2muchcoffee shared anything they thought wasn't a good standard for us to have, even minor things like link checking or structural errors. We also received an outline of the 1–2 security risks they found in our code. They didn't limit themselves to critiques; they offered feedback and insight into how we could fix those issues.  

Now, whenever we work on a new batch of code, we bring in 2muchcoffee to review it. We have 2muchcoffee review our junior developers before we promote them. Sometimes, we bring them in when we think they're more suited for a tech stack than our internal team. 

What is the team composition?

We've worked with a developer and a project manager. 

How did you come to work with 2muchcoffee?

I found 2muchcoffee through a Google search. We dug through their website and liked their portfolio and client base. Also, they had a blog that highlighted good development practices, which gave us a lot of confidence in their services. 

How much have you invested with them?

We invest around £1,000–£2,000 (approximately $1,300–$2,600 USD)with 2muchcoffee for each project. In total, we’ve invested £15,000–£20,000 (approximately $20,000–$26,000 USD) with 2muchcoffee. 

What is the status of this engagement?

The latest project with 2muchcoffee began in November 2021, and our partnership is ongoing. 

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

2muchcoffee has provided 7–10 pages of clear assessments of our junior developers' performance compared to the industry standard. Their insights have given us the insights we needed to make promotional decisions. 2muchcoffee is very professional and provides great service — they answer all of our questions when their feedback isn't clear. 

How did 2muchcoffee perform from a project management standpoint?

2muchcoffee always meets our deadlines and clarifies our timeline expectations   

What did you find most impressive about them?

2muchcoffee has great attention to detail in their code review. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

There is nothing for 2muchcoffee to improve based on the short-term projects we've done with them so far. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I'd advise customers to give 2muchcoffee a shot — measure the outputs for a smaller initial project and make a hiring decision from that. 

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the co-founder and CTO of a digital marketing company, so I manage all of our technical projects. We create all sorts of marketing campaigns in the videogame, technology, and e-sports content creation space. In doing so, we create high conversions for marketing teams looking to grow on their social media platforms.

What challenge were you trying to address with 2muchcoffee?

We’ve been working with 2muchcoffee on various web development projects.

What was the scope of their involvement?

2muchcoffee has been helping us remove third-party integrations and frameworks from our website that were potentially inhibiting our business and incurring additional costs. In doing so, we’ve collaborated with them on multiple projects to eliminate those barriers.

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with about 4–5 people from 2muchcoffee, some of which come in and out of projects depending on our needs. Their team includes the owner, project managers, web developers, and web designers.

How did you come to work with 2muchcoffee?

I found 2muchcoffee on Upwork. We had worked with freelance developers in the past, so I tried to reach out to one developer on that site. However, it turned out that this person had moved from freelancing and built 2muchcoffee to house several developers and designers.

Among the people I reached out to, 2muchcoffee was the most attentive regarding their scoping, pricing, and overall interaction with us. Additionally, their communication was what stood out to us the most, making them the most attractive of our options.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent around $100,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together around April 2021, and our engagement is ongoing.

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

Our project is not focused on hard results like meeting deadlines or developing certain features. It is more focused on future builds. We’ve been building our product, testing and iterating on it until we’re comfortable with it. Thus, our engagement is ongoing, making changes and updating what we already have. So far, we’re very satisfied with their work.

How did 2muchcoffee perform from a project management standpoint?

2muchcoffee’s project management is incredible; they’re very quick and communicative. They’re from Ukraine, but they’ve kept working on the project despite the Russian Invasion, even though I’ve told them that it isn’t necessary. If that’s not professionalism, I don’t know what is. We communicate via email, Slack, and Telegram.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The best aspect of working with 2muchcoffee is their communication. Having worked with a lot of different companies, I’ve noticed that the amount of communication with them is a great indicator of the results we will get. Their team is comprised of designers and developers, so they don’t have the same organizational and social skills that the bigger companies do. However, they’re much more responsive and communicative than most of them. Additionally, they´re very flexible, working with us around price negotiations and big project changes.

Are there any areas they could improve?

It would be great if 2muchcoffee got a little bit better at testing. We’ve adjusted some things during QA that should have been found during testing. However, that situation is normal on these kinds of projects.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Knowing exactly what you want will help you maximize your return from cost and time standpoints. If you can have everything laid out beforehand, the process will be great.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the owner of a Paris-based online digital training company. 

What challenge were you trying to address with 2muchcoffee?

We needed help making our training available online.

What was the scope of their involvement?

First, we explained to 2muchcoffee our vision and goal with the website. They gave us estimates on the hours and resources they would require. From there, they developed our website from scratch. 

2muchcofee has already finished the site and is now providing site updates and improvements. 

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with a project manager, two developers, and a designer. 

How did you come to work with 2muchcoffee?

We met with three different agencies and ended up with 2muchcoffee. They seemed very flexible and competitively priced, and it was a huge plus that they spoke English. 

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent between €60,000–€70,000 (approximately $68,000–$79,000 USD).

What is the status of this engagement?

We’ve been working together since May 2021, and our relationship is ongoing. 

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

The platform 2muchcoffee has developed is easy to use, and we can upload content by ourselves. However, we haven’t marketed the site to our clients, so I can’t provide any metrics about their work. 

How did 2muchcoffee perform from a project management standpoint?

2muchcoffee’s project management has been perfect. We collaborate through Slack, Google Drive, and Google Meet.  

What did you find most impressive about them?

2muchcoffee has accepted our unique idea and made it come to life, whereas other vendors have told us it wouldn’t work. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

I can’t think of anything. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Sit down and think about the project. You need to be involved and available if you want it to go fast. 

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a consulting CTO for this pre-launch startup.

For what projects/services did your company hire 2muchcoffee, and what were your goals?

I was brought on to evaluate the software the client's existing agency was building since there were many delays. After review, the architecture was completely inappropriate for the type of software being built (expert system for the legal industry). The client engaged me to rebuild the software with a new team.

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

I was specifically looking for a front end architect who could design a large, complex single page application (SPA). I posted to Upwork and interviewed many engineers in Europe and Asia. Dmitriy stood out for his extensive Angular expertise and the popular Angular open source project he maintained. They also had a perfect rating on Upwork.

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

The first goal was to analyze the previous codebase to determine if anything salvageable. The second task was a comprehensive architecture of the front end, which had extensive mockups. This included components, i18n, security, build/packaging, etc. In addition to many typical web forms and reports, the app included a dynamic, data-driven forms component for the expert system.

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

Two people, Dmitriy and Anton, both did architecture and development. Anton came later but did the bulk of development.

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

Since this is a pre-launch project under NDA, there are no metrics to report. However, the code base met the most important quality of any software system: maintainability. It has undergone many requirements changes without need of any serious re-architecture. This includes major Angular upgrades from version 2 to the present.

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

The whole team communicated through Jira and Skype. Tasks are estimated and status updated through Jira. All developers post daily "stand-up" style messages. Chat and voice calls happen as necessary. Dmitriy was always available for discussions and it was clear he cared deeply about customer satisfaction.

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

Unless you have extensive experience running globally distributed teams (which I've done since 2008), you don't know how important discipline is for the team and individual contributors. This is generally important for engineers, but absolutely critical for fully remote teams where nobody is colocated. Dmitriy and Anton were perhaps the most disciplined engineers I've ever worked with. This was greatly appreciated.

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

A general challenge with offshore (to the US) workers is finding overlap in schedules for voice calls. A lot can be done via text, but sometimes a call helps break through understanding and discover hidden challenges. However, this is why I make sure all developers are in the same hemisphere at least, so they were able to talk with each other during working hours.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m one of the owners of Ping Yo Inc, a brokerage company that sits in between various financial institutions such as banks, lenders, borrowed, and other forms of marketing networks.

What challenge were you trying to address with 2muchcoffee?

We have several technically nuanced concerns, so we needed a software engineer who can handle complex development tasks, is patient, and is highly skilled in classic software engineer principles.

What was the scope of their involvement?

In collaboration with our internal staff, 2muchcoffee built our platform from the ground up to replace our system, with the bulk of their work focusing on the backend, middleware, and frontend concerns.

They’ve created customer service and operations portals, as well as some of the more sensitive and secure areas that our employees would use, such as customer records and data.

They’re also involved in some of the capabilities that we use to monitor infrastructures from a technological point of view — implementing JavaScript that’s based primarily on TypeScript and Angular.

Moreover, they work closely with our designers to go through the various layouts, flows, and UI to present us with visual mockups and determine how customers will interact with our platform.

What is the team composition?

Throughout the project, we’ve probably interacted with at least six people from 2muchcoffee. There was a project manager at the beginning of the partnership but as time went on, we’ve lessened the involvement of the leadership team.

How did you come to work with 2muchcoffee?

I came across 2muchcoffee on a couple of websites while researching, most notably on Clutch and Upwork. We chose them because we had a specific interest in hiring people who don’t normally get the same chances as other developers in this male-dominated industry.

We wanted to help them learn and provide them the opportunity to present their proposals to see if they were a good fit, and it worked.

How much have you invested with them?

So far, we’ve probably spent over $250,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

Our ongoing partnership started in June 2018.

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

Thanks to the expertise of 2muchcoffee, we’re successfully releasing major capabilities for our platform on a monthly basis and release new features every day.

Additionally, the bug and defects rate from the development team is exceedingly low and if there are defects, it’s often a misunderstanding and miscommunication of the requirements rather than the quality of their work.

We have a very high success rate with the company and tasks are accomplished at a reasonable velocity.

How did 2muchcoffee perform from a project management standpoint?

I manage the entire project with 2muchcoffee, so the scheduling and timing issues are on the business side. However, 2muchcoffee is quick to adapt to any situation so we’re really happy with that.

We typically manage and communicate with the team through Skype.

What did you find most impressive about them?

We’re very impressed with their overall performance in communication. They’ve been really patient with us and they’re intellectually engaged throughout the process.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I have no demands for them at this point, but it would be great if I could hear their unfiltered view of working with us. Other than that, I don’t have any complaints.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

When you’re engaging in a relationship with remote software engineers, it’s important you come prepared to tell a detailed nuance story of your needs.

2muchcoffee has the strength to listen to the details of your story, and they will engage with you to figure out the rest of it.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Со-founder of a healthtech project

For what projects/services did your company hire 2muchcoffee, and what were your goals?

We needed an experienced software engineering team to help us refine our ideas and to suggest the best and the most optimal digital solutions for creating a scalable and secure product.

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

Found profile of 2muchcoffee on Social Media and through their popular Github projects.

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

We created an Angular web and an Ionic mobile application connected to a Node.JS backend API developed with Nest.JS. The web app has quite broad, complex, and smart functionality to encourage users to become healthier. The mobile app is all GDPR-compliant, respecting the privacy of healthtech system users’ data.

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

2muchcoffee team covered both sides of application development including product development and mobile development itself. We worked with the PM, the frontend engineer, the backend engineer, and the QA specialist.

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

2muchcoffee did a great job. As a result, we will be seeking to work with them for more future projects. Their company has deep experience in product development, and it was a great help for us in terms of structuring the architecture as well as making the decision in business logic.

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

2muchcoffee makes use of effective communication and collaboration to ensure a smooth workflow. We worked with a great project management tool and also communicated via Slack.

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

2muchcoffee team is communicative and responsive to requests, which results in a supportive partnership. The whole team was very easy to work with. They demonstrated a lot of technical expertise and a very strong understanding of the project and its aims. The main benefit for us were that based on their product experience in the variety of different projects we achieved our goals on time and were able to deliver best practices in both business and tech sides.

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

No, I’ve been very happy with the experience.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Product owner of the application.

For what projects/services did your company hire 2muchcoffee?

We had had a web app in the past, though it hadn’t satisfied our needs in terms of the performance. We needed an experienced software engineering team to help us with building a new cross-platform SPA app with a good performance.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to create an effective and high-performance logistic system to track key objects, their status and location.

How did you select 2muchcoffee?

On Upwork. We were looking for cross-platform development agencies or freelancers.

Describe the project in detail.

With 2mc’s help, we created an Ionic cross-platform both web and mobile application, fully functional and compatible with the backend developed by our side.

What was the team composition?

2muchcoffee team fully covered a web and a mobile development. We worked with the PM and the front-end engineer.

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

Our project is on the stage of live testing. We are still working with a 2mc team on the support basis. Whenever we encountered any setbacks they were there to solve problems. Also, we’d be glad to ask for 2mc services for more future projects.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

High level of communication skills of project managers on the side of 2muchcoffee team as well as cleat workflow made the process of application development fast and convenient. They always informed us about the stages of development and provided daily updates.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their high-quality standards made us confident we can get back to these guys for future project development. We truly value the high level of flexibility of 2mc team for supporting our application.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No, I can only highly recommend this team.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Director Of Engineering at Chrysalis Cloud

For what projects/services did your company hire 2muchcoffee, and what were your goals?

We were looking for a skilled and experienced developer who can take over the project and bring it to the market. Our main requirement was a scalable Angular project of high-quality with a decent performance since the logic is quite complicated.

How did you select 2muchcoffee and what were the deciding factors?

Among other Angular development agencies on Upwork.

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

Our Head of Engineering and designer were working together with 2muchcoffee team to detail out the plan, risks, and successfully created an Angular web platform to work as the pipeline for AI functionality on the cloud and manage Computer Vision applications on the Edge.

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

2muchcoffee team covered the frontend development. We worked with the PM and the frontend engineer.

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

We have a completed project which lets users stream and analyze data in real-time by collecting, processing, and analyzing video streaming data at a fraction of the cost of current products. All our tasks were completed successfully.

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

They are highly effective in both communication and code delivery.

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

Technical level of the developers. Angular is indeed their strong side.

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

No, we were completely satisfied and ready for rehiring in the future.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Acme Data is a software company that provides Data Quality and Master Data Management software. I am the VP of Product.

For what projects/services did your company hire 2muchcoffee, and what were your goals?

We needed Angular developers to develop screens for the latest version of the software.

How did you select 2muchcoffee and what were the deciding factors?

We selected 2mcuhcoffee because they appeared to have significant expertise with Angular.

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

The scope of work included several screens for the application. The technology was Angular.

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

We worked with one Angular developer and one project/account manager.

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

The quality of the deliverables was very high and the delivery was consistent.

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

They were very easy to wok with.

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

We hired 2muchcoffee to develop screens in Angular for our B2B application. 2muchcoffee delivered on several levels. The most important thing they delivered was very strong development resources. 2muchcoffee brought very high quality developers to our project. The code was very clean and the delivery was consistent. We had zero problems related to the code that was delivered and the code quality was as good as it gets.

On top of that, 2muchcoffee assigned a project manager to our project. He was always available, very professional and just generally good to work with. The level of effort required on our part to manage 2muchcoffee as a partner was very low. The experience has been very good and we continue to work with them. 2muchcoffee delivered great code and zero problems.

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

No areas for improvement.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a CEO of a mental health startup. We're an online B2B psychotherapy provider in Europe.

For what projects/services did your company hire 2muchcoffee, and what were your goals?

We had serious questions about how to develop the startup regarding business development and software requirements. Our goal was to have a 100% stable solution that could handle all our needs. It needed to built for web, iOS, and Android platforms.

How did you select 2muchcoffee and what were the deciding factors?

I was referred to the 2muchcoffee team. After several calls with Alex and Dmitriy we understood that they are a result-driven partner we were looking for. They have strong proven experience I could trust.

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

They learned our business model and proposed clear inputs. With their help we could clarify our value proposition and move forward to discovery phase. Then, they build app workflows and designs. The communication was always good. They quickly could fix things after the feedback. I understand that the processes in the 2muchcoffee work smoothly under the hood.

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

I worked closely with 3 people in their team, including project manager, a designer, and business developer.

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

We were able to reach the point of successfully launching MPV in 2 months after starting the project with 2muchcoffee.

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

The project management was conducted in Clubhouse project management app. We could easily navigate the tasks and take part in any decision. We communicated through Slack and had weekly sync-up calls.

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

They dove into our project and provided much more value than was expected from the scope of work. They always tried to get into every details of our ideas and join them with what we were building in software.

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

I wish we could start working on the project even faster. It took about one month to start the project since first contact to the contract. But that's quite understandable especially that their team obviously doesn't want to get stuck in the revisions loop.