Brainvire Infotech Inc

What was the scope of their involvement?

Our intention is to display accessible and inaccessible buildings on Google Maps, so we wanted the app to have a GPS feature. That functionality was important for us. If a volunteer takes a picture of a building’s accessibility, the app would populate the address automatically based on the latitude and longitude. Volunteers can crowdsource the pictures, and then that information will be available on Google Maps.

Similarly, we wanted people to be able to share information on social media. Not everything is accessible in America, though you’d think it would be. Last week, I took a picture of an Italian restaurant in Boston that was not accessible. I can share that information on social media so that others will know that this place is not accessible for people with wheelchairs. If you want to spread awareness, our mobile app is all about actionable advocacy. We allow people to take action by sending emails to the operators or owners of a building.

We have another feature called Pledge. I can send a Pledge request to all of the congressmen and senators who do XYZ for people with disabilities, and that information can be tracked. The way I see Pledge helping people is that more and more will be sensitized to taking action when they receive links from their friends who are also volunteers. That’s how we are spreading awareness. We are not here to do any negative advocacy. We want everyone to feel like they can do something, which is why the mobile app includes the Pledge feature.

As of now, there is no donation option in the app, but we intend to add that in the future. Last August, we never thought we’d be asking for money. However, when we looked at our expenses, we realized that the cost of building this type of app was not small.

What is the team dynamic?

We worked with a project manager and developers. I could pick up the phone and call anyone.

How did you come to work with Brainvire?

I’ve known some of the people at Brainvire professionally for a few years, and they agreed to build the app for us. I said, “Obviously we will need your help because we need to make a very good tool that volunteers will use.”

How much have you invested with them?

I would like to keep that confidential, but you can imagine how much 2 mobile apps would cost. A mobile app could easily cost thousands of dollars.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started talking to Brainvire about the app in August 2016. It has taken almost a year, but we are finished with the first phase of development now. There was a lot of work done in the last couple of months. We released the app last week on Android and iOS.

What was the scope of their involvement?

The project is a web based program applicable in the agriculture industry. It allows veterinarian clinics to record the activity of their veterinarians and their farmer-clients. It also enables the setting and automation of some actions. In simple terms, it’s like a calendar or a planner. It’s much more complicated than a planner though because you set up a clinic and each clinic has several registered veterinarians, and each vet has several registered farmers all in relational databases. Each farmer is unique. Every farming operation is different. Each farmer's setup has basic actions based on what’s relevant to that farm. There’s also a copy function so if you can replicate preset actions for one farm when registering a new one if they're similar. The initial developers who worked on this program couldn’t get it going and couldn’t develop all of the features that we wanted. They gave up and that's when Brainvire came in to help us bring all these features to life.

We just resolved a pictorial timer. Some actions could be words and some actions are connected to scientific graphs. It’s a program with five actions in it. The five actions have five graphics. All this has to be connected tightly and working together because they’re all time synchronized. One of the biggest troubles the previous developer had was getting all the actions to work together and sync with the provided dates and times. It’s a messy task. That’s one of the things that Brainvire has helped to make work.

Another example is the grouping function. We wanted to be able to group different actions on a particular farm. We never got that working with the previous developers. In the previous versions, it was working when you were trying to group 2 or 3 actions, but when you got over that, it usually didn't work. Brainvire designed some new feature so that you could literally bundle up any number of actions. There’s also a time function to it. If you change the first action date, it will consequently change all the dates on all the actions based on the previous set time difference. It is a very messy task, but Brainvire was able to figure it out and make it work. We are still on the development phases. We are 99% done with the version 1 of the program. Once it goes live, they’re going to maintain it, and eventually version 2 and version 3.

How much have you invested with them?

$7,000-$8,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in March 2017 and the work is ongoing.

What was the scope of their involvement?

When offering our services to customers, we didn’t want to be limited to 1 platform, so the app was created on both Android and iOS. Initially, we discussed the concept and decided on a plan of action. Once the build started, the work went pretty quickly, and the apps were built simultaneously.

We required apps for the backend of the business, our customers, and the delivery staff. Our top priority is for everything to work seamlessly. The customer manually puts in an address to specify their location, and we currently use Paytm for electronic payment.

How did you come to work with Brainvire Infotech?

We were referred to Brainvire by someone who had worked with them previously. After meeting with Brainvire, we were convinced we wanted to work with them because they were structured and thorough in explaining how the project would move forward.

How much have you invested in them?

We have invested around $45,000–$50,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with Brainvire in May 2015, and the relationship is ongoing. 

What was the scope of their involvement?

We had an existing website that Brainvire Infotech built on using Magento. I wanted a subscription program and a backend where members could log in to track earnings on their order history and share their unique link for others to join. I gave them information in a text document, along with Photoshop designs of the look with notes for different functions. They executing my outline. Once the site was live, we did user testing and made changes based on that feedback. The first stage took 3 months. Now, we’re in the second stage making changes.

How did you come to work with Brainvire Infotech?

I was referred to them by another web developer in Poland who didn’t have time for our project. Brainvire sent me their portfolio, which was similar to what we were looking for on our website.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve spent about $9,500.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started our partnership in April 2017, and the work is ongoing.