Engineering Your Vision
BrightMarbles is a world-class software engineering house busy designing and building beautiful software, digital products, and experiences.
BrightMarbles team averages 7+ years per member, bringing over 47 decades of collective software engineering experience, developing complex projects across industries and markets, bringing maximum impact for our client's business while minimizing the costs.
BrightMarbles have been working with clients of all sizes and developing strategic partnerships with world-leading tech providers, such as Microsoft and other market leaders. We're proud to be referenced as "startup builders" with more than seven unicorns in our client portfolio, along with five award-winning software products.
Recently our work has been honored
By Clutch. Awarding us with the Clutch Leader (Region) and the Top 1000 B2B Company in the World Awards.
By Digital Knights. Recognizing us as the Top 7% of Europe's tech talent.
By Microsoft. Recognizing us as Gold Level MS Partners.
We help companies develop transformative software that moves people, businesses, and the world forward.
Let’s Make the Impact, Together
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LiteBit, MediaMonks, Gopuff, Reichle & De-Massari, ArKaos, Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), ArKaos (inMusic Brands), and more. We’re proud to be referenced as “startup builders” with more than 7 (seven) Unicorn ventures in our client portfolio, along with five award-winning software products.
Safe & Simple Way to Crypto
Helping over six hundred thousand (600000+) crypto-traders buy, sell, and store almost 60 cryptocurrencies with a fast, simple, and secure mobile app.
LiteBit - cryptocurrency broker, rising fast to become the largest of its kind in the European market. Their platform allows users to manage their digital assets in the LiteBit platform, including BitCoin and around 60 currencies that they provide. In 2019, the company was voted the best crypto broker.
The Challenge
Together with the LiteBit team, we set out to develop and improve their mobile app to help crypto-traders store and manage their assets. Simultaneously improving their ReactNative made iOS app with new features and making the android app from the ground up proved to be a considerable time drain on the development team.
In the end, LiteBit was looking for a fast, secure, and straightforward way to enable their users while expanding to the android market segments.
Overcoming the Challenge
While the team worked on the ReactNative app, simultaneously, we were able to implement a fast and secure cross-platform solution using Flutter. Inside six months, a Flutter-made app for Android and iOS was developed, surpassing the initial reactNative application. All the focus was soon shifted to the Flutter project, resolving our challenge by hitting all the LiteBit set requirements ahead of schedule.
Benefits
BrightMarbles’ Flutter based solution allowed users to buy, sell and store Bitcoin and over 60 other cryptocurrencies offered in the LiteBit platform securely and effortlessly via their mobile android iOs devices. As a result, LiteBit significantly reduced development, maintenance, and time costs while reaching desired market segments by focusing on their mobile-focused traders.
"BrightMarbles is our strategic development partner. They heavily influenced what LiteBit is today, sharing a big part in achieving our success. With a deep understanding of both the Crypto and Fintech industries and their engineer’s excellence, they helped LiteBit position as one of the fastest-growing and respected cryptocurrency brokers globally. BM breathes Crypto!" -
Erwin Veldhuis, CPTO, LiteBit, Netherlands
Technology
#Flutter, #ReactNative
Perfecting Group Travel
Rebuilding tourism for the future by providing all functionalities for stress-free travel. Dream, plan, and coordinate trips and activities with friends as soon as Covid restrictions subside.
Their Story
Escapist (LL Ventures Ltd) is a company based in England and Wales that provides a unique travel planning platform designed to help choose, modify, and book each travel activity.
The Challenge
Escapist (LL Ventures) set out to develop a travel app designed to help organize and plan any travel activity of a single user or specific to a group of travelers. The main functionality is to allow users to plan every step of their trip and share valuable information regarding their transport, accommodation, tours, car rentals, etc. That will be up and running before Covid-19 restrictions lift and millions of travelers emerge yearning for adventure.
Overcoming the Challenge
We gathered a team of experts to work on a travel app with the functionality of creating a shared itinerary with all vital information that you and your fellow travelers can access at any time. Each traveler can be added as a participant or observer. Making decisions as a group can be tricky; therefore, polls enable you to get everyone’s opinion and agree on moving forward. The Escapist app also allows you to create a bucket list of all the places you plan to visit, searchable and categorized by country.
Benefits
Implementation of this travel app has led to increased user satisfaction that resulted in an ever-growing number of app downloads, thus increasing profits and ROI. Resulting in an elaborate group travel app that enables you to dream, plan, and coordinate trips with your friends, providing all the functionalities you need to make your travel seamless and stress-free. Travelers will never have to ask (or answer) “What are the dates again?”, “Have we booked a restaurant for Saturday?” or “Who is staying at the villa with us?”.
Design. Visualize. Purchase.
Helping brands impact customers at exhibitions with the ideal showcase stands by using the 3d configurator to design digital environments and bring their stand to life.
Their Story
The company Arti70 has over more than 40 years of experience creating, producing, and providing the best stands, tailor-made interiors, trade fair concepts, and exhibition concepts worldwide. Their team of professionals composes a diverse range of stands, both modular and collective, system-built or custom-made to customer-specific requirements.
The Challenge
Designing and building stands is complex, and it's expensive. Our task was to supply the client with custom software development capacity for an e-commerce solution with 3d configurator. Challenge was to streamline their entire sales process, display all their products in a very different and unique way, and create more client interaction for their customers, and above all, there was no time for mistakes and time for wasting.
Overcoming the Challenge
We gathered an experienced engineering team to work on the sales platform. Tech stack included WordPress, JavaScript, HTML, Unity, and Woocommerce. This process's outcome was a website and a webshop with 3D configuration representing the ultimate way to manifest your products online in 3D, anywhere in a full 3D application on your website, Android app, IOS app, or a touch screen. This way, we managed to develop a solution that allows customers to see and understand the final product before buying it.
Benefits
The implementation of 3D configurators and what you see is what you get approach, that has led to a marketing improvement, leading to a sales and ROI increase. By understanding the product and its purpose, clients order more items because they visualize their stand and design it to be an ideal showcase stand. One of the 3D configurators' significant advantages is that all previous stands and ordered items are stored in raw data to quickly repeat their orders.
Redesigning Coffee Experience
The future is here, coffee at a push of the button! Creating an immersive experience around obtaining the product and connecting with customers.
Their Story
Bandit is a company serving high-quality coffee and other products, per customers’ tastes, at a technology company's speed and innovation rate. The service is simple, fast, and reliable. But the company is further carefully observing their customers’ likes and dislikes to make their service fit their consumers like a glove. Challenge Having a good quality product is the first half of the road to customers’ satisfaction. The other half is creating an immersive experience around obtaining the product and connecting with customers. The same as their products, Bandit’s visual identity, and the app had to be of the highest quality. The app had to be fast, intuitive, easily navigated, bugless.The team of senior iOS and back-end engineers and a senior UI/UX, fit to hold the task to this standard. Overcoming the Challenge
The team started designing and developing the iOS app. With the team’s mindset that the app and the whole brand's visual design have to be on par with the company’s superior reputation, our team, together with Bandit’s core team, settled on redesigning the app and making the visual identity more consistent. The main tools used for the app's development were Swift, Node.js, and various Web technologies.
The app is currently available on both stores, Android, and iOS, with simple UX and the option for contactless payment integrated.
Benefit
The growing base of Bandit followers can now enjoy their fresh coffee cup without waiting in line at their own convenience. We continued our work with Bandit, making further improvements, implementing new ideas, and developing new features, creating a disruptive experience for true coffee lovers.
"We are more than happy with both the results of their work and the quality of their written code. We’re still working with BrightMarbles, satisfied with the team and their initiative." -
Jeff Hu, Head of Engineering, Bandit Coffee
Technology
NodeJS, Angular, Swift, Android
Reliable & Efficient Cloud-Based Healthcare Platform
Powering the change of the USA healthcare system by improving the lives of 16 million healthcare professionals and their patients.
Their Story
MedMatch is founded by a renowned neurosurgeon from Florida, Dr. Amos O. Dare, with a mission to raise the USA's healthcare system's quality as a whole by providing concise, reliable information.
The Challenge
Over 16 million professionals, and counting, make up the US healthcare system. This number alone, together with lack of information, makes it difficult for MDs to recommend the best specialist for their patients. BrightMarbles was entrusted with creating an app and an algorithm that will analyze and structure multi-point data to provide reliable suggestions and network MDs with the best options for their patients and schedule appointments for them in just a few clicks.
Overcoming the Challenge
We assembled an experienced engineering team covering the entire app development process, front-end and back-end, quality assurance, and a SCRUM master role to ensure a top-notch quality product and fastest time to market. Tech stack included JavaScript, NodeJS, Serverless framework, Vue.js, Amazon Cloud Enterprise Services, MySQL, and Docker. Resulting in an app that streamlines medical care and helps physicians by providing the best match for the patients’ needs, easy scheduling, and making reports and laboratory results available by the subsequent follow-up visit with patients.
Benefits
Drastically increased patient satisfaction and service quality and outcomes with an elegant and straightforward solution that calculates a reliable, professional score for an easy selection that is helping millions of MDs match patients with best-rated medical professionals.
In the end, the team's excellent capabilities helped this disruptive idea and A1 quality product come to the market, ensuring client's and their customers’ satisfaction and continued collaboration in MedMatch’s future engagements.
Social Network for Sports Pros
Social Network where the most talented footballers get the visibility they deserve. A sports social network, for finding a club and connecting with scouts, agents, and managers. With the intuitive algorithm, an app finds optimal matches between user-profiles and potential clubs and agents.
Their Story
PlayerHunter is a revolutionary online career platform for the football industry. With completely new “Smart Matching” algorithm we connect players and clubs very efficiently, quickly, and easily.
The Challenge
As a startup company, one cannot afford to make a mistake. That’s why PlayerHunter approached BrightMarbles in need of a small, already well-coordinated team of professionals for quick and effective development of the frontend side of their app that needed to go live soon.
Overcoming the Challenge
Our team of front-end developers faced the main challenge was the dynamics of the project and the amount of the features needed to produce under a tight time constraint, without compromising the quality of the code.
The technology used during the development phase included Angular 2, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Our team’s involvement in the project lasted for about a year.
Benefits
With the job done, PlayerHunter’s app was ready to go live, with quality solutions, tested and developed according to principles of modern software development. The solution included all of the information relevant for a footballer, such as skills, and the possibility to endorse them, working experience, demographics, position, height, weight, even t-shirt, and shoe size. Users could post and share photos and videos, and interact with each other via comments and direct messaging.
“When we needed a reliable, responsive and flexible partner, with a strong technical background, BrightMarbles stepped in. The attitude people working at BrightMarbles brought was refreshing, they’ve shown initiative, professionalism, and most importantly, we knew we could count on them.” -
Stevan Radak, Founder & CEO at Playerhunter GmbH
Cutting-Edge Entertainment Solutions
The cutting edge of entertainment video and media solutions empowers both professionals and enthusiasts to achieve maximum control of light and video, bringing some of the most stunning visual pieces to life.
Their Story
Bandit is a company serving high-quality coffee and other products, per customers’ tastes, at a technology company's speed and innovation rate. The service is simple, fast, and reliable. But the company is further carefully observing their customers’ likes and dislikes to make their service fit their consumers like a glove. Challenge Having a good quality product is the first half of the road to customers’ satisfaction. The other half is creating an immersive experience around obtaining the product and connecting with customers. The same as their products, Bandit’s visual identity, and the app had to be of the highest quality. The app had to be fast, intuitive, easily navigated, bugless.The team of senior iOS and back-end engineers and a senior UI/UX, fit to hold the task to this standard. Overcoming the Challenge
The team started designing and developing the iOS app. With the team’s mindset that the app and the whole brand's visual design have to be on par with the company’s superior reputation, our team, together with Bandit’s core team, settled on redesigning the app and making the visual identity more consistent. The main tools used for the app's development were Swift, Node.js, and various Web technologies.
The app is currently available on both stores, Android, and iOS, with simple UX and the option for contactless payment integrated.
Benefit
The growing base of Bandit followers can now enjoy their fresh coffee cup without waiting in line at their own convenience. We continued our work with Bandit, making further improvements, implementing new ideas, and developing new features, creating a disruptive experience for true coffee lovers.
"We are more than happy with both the results of their work and the quality of their written code. We’re still working with BrightMarbles, satisfied with the team and their initiative." -
Jeff Hu, Head of Engineering, Bandit Coffee
Technology
NodeJS, Angular, Swift, Android
Boosting the Real-Estate Giant
Real-estate giant streamlines the management of their clientele base by integrating large sets of data
regarding corporate office space, in a B2B app, with an intuitive, clean, and modern UX and recognizable UI.
Their Story
Founded more than 160 years ago, developing, growing, and pushing the boundaries of the field made Savills recognized as one of the world's leading real estate service providers. With 600+ offices around the Globe, their expertise crosses the borders of more than 60 countries.
Challenge
The client needed a solution that would integrate a large set of data regarding corporate office space, a B2B software app, with an intuitive, clean and modern UX and recognizable UI.
The vast real estate data app had to organize and manage. It was crucial to develop robust and comprehensive search and filtering options while conforming to an existing API.
Overcoming the Challenge
With BrightMarbles spearheading the development, and our partner Innovative Brands handling the creative concept and the design side, a custom multi-level app, using React and NodeJS stacks together with Google API, was soon realized into an interactive real estate tool. Users could directly on a map see pinned office locations and all the relevant information regarding it. Using appropriate filters, they could search for sites using criteria relevant to them.
Benefits
This development process's result is a B2B web application, modern in its design, easily navigated with a vast set of filters, bringing forth an array of benefits from a real estate industry standpoint. Extensive data collections are being organized and displayed, enabling users to perform initial searches within Savills network of available properties, saving valuable time on all sides. Altho originally developed with the city of Utrecht in mind, the application was made to be, with just a few small tweaks, expanded to scope any city in the World.
"The team from BrightMarbels was a great unmissable asset in our growth. We could quickly scale our development team up and made the crunch time shorter by adding bright minds to the team."
SIMON KOOP Co-founder and Head of Design, Innovative Brands BV, The Netherlands
Technology
JavaScript, NodeJS, React
A New Vision Of Banking
Leveling up level client services for major financial and banking institutions with unique banking solutions using an architecture-led approach to underpin the program and manage change.
Their Story
NF Innova is an international company that provides financial institutions with unique banking solutions across various digital channels with the primary goal is to help organizations take charge of their Digital Growth with greater agility, using an architecture-led approach to underpin the program and manage change.
The Challenge
With a new vision of digital banking, NF Innova set off to build a unique, omnichannel B2B app. All channels: the Internet, smartphones, tablets, contact centers, ATMs were to work together to provide the best user experience, regardless of the device used.
When developing an app handling money transaction, the biggest challenge is security. The highest possible level of protection is a must; monitoring and following up the trends is non-negotiable.
This solution was to be uniquely customized for every business client and financial institution.
Overcoming the Challenge
BrightMarbles was involved in the development and customization of the app as an extended team. With the bigger team, holding high expertise in the field, without the need for recruitment, and therefore additional costs, the overall team was ready to tackle the problems and meet deadlines in a timely manner.
The bigger team also meant a more diverse experience, which ultimately resulted in better security, since it was easier to follow up on the trends, and exchange opinions.
Benefits
The end result was the omnichannel B2B digital banking app customized for several major financial and banking institutions seeking to level up their customer management service.
"BrightMarbles really put the tech in fintech. Thanks to a combination of top engineering talent and proven expertise in Finance & Banking, they aided us in bringing our Finovate 2020 Winning Digital Banking Solution to the market." -
Vasa Šegrt CEO, NF Innova,
New Frontier Group, Austria
Technology
Java, Android, Swift, .Net, JavaScript
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Development Staff Augmentation for IT Services Company
"They were highly engaged, and we were highly satisfied with their work."
the reviewer
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the director at Saga d.o.o. Beograd, an IT company. We provide relationship and communication platforms, and we’re dedicated to providing AI-based solutions.
What challenge were you trying to address with BrightMarbles?
We wanted to create software development kits (SDKs) and channels to easily integrate our smart AI assistant into any native mobile app. That way, our AI platform would able to support each and every channel. Once we realized that we also had to support virtual assistants (VAs) on the mobile apps, we struggled because we didn’t have an internal team. As a result, we hired BrightMarbles.
What was the scope of their involvement?
BrightMarbles developed mobile SDK components for iOS and Android. They ensured that the SDK components would be able to support all the features such as support voice messages and short text messages based on our documentation in any social media platform.
They also developed our APIs, and they developed functions such as integrating a small Facebook Messenger inside the mobile app. The whole project was pretty complex because the app needed to support many different media such as action buttons, voice messages, and more. We gave them very strict features set, and we guided them through the project. Based on the documents we created, they conducted beta testing.
What is the team composition?
Two Android developers and two iOS developers worked on our project.
How did you come to work with BrightMarbles?
I contacted them based on good recommendations from other companies around — they said they were very skilled engineers.
How much have you invested with them?
We spent over $50,000.
What is the status of this engagement?
Our partnership ran from November 2020–March 2021.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
BrightMarbles delivered bug-free components for both platforms, and those components were able to support chats. From the first delivery of their team, they produced an acceptable level of quality. The team met our expectations, and they did exactly what we asked from them. Overall, we didn’t have any misunderstandings regarding our expectations.
How did BrightMarbles perform from a project management standpoint?
They worked using an agile approach, and they showed a very high level of dedication to the project. The BrightMarbles team delivered within the planned timeline and they showed that they want to provide good quality work.
We communicated via email and phone calls. We also used Microsoft Teams. Overall, they were highly engaged, and we were highly satisfied with their work.
What did you find most impressive about them?
They had a great attitude, and they did their job properly. We appreciated that they had a high level of seniority in their business. Whenever we asked for something, they instantly replied to us — they were responsive.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I had a couple of bad experiences with other outsourcing companies, but my experience with BrightMarbles had been great. For smaller companies, it might be important for the team to provide guidance to the company. This wasn’t our case but if it is, they need to make sure they have the ability to do so. Additionally, they didn’t have a product portfolio, but maybe they could create one and show it to others.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Clarify your requests and document everything. I’d recommend BrightMarbles to anybody who needs a mobile development outsourced team.
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iOS & Android Dev for Software Company
"Honestly, they were fantastic. We couldn't have worked any better together."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I’m the CEO of a travel mobile app.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles, and what were your goals?
I wanted to find a development partner to handle the whole build of my project: back end infrastructure and iOS/ Android front end.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
They came as a warm recommendation from a friend who also used them to develop his mobile app. They seemed very professional, friendly and came in at a more than reasonable price.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
After a couple of discovery meetings, I was presented with a plan (Heroku for the back end, flutter for the front end). The team and I worked in Scrum Sprints with clear deliverables each step of the way. We had daily standups and weekly demos.
How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
The number of engineers working on the project varied throughout. They were incredibly flexible and staffed the project based needs. Most engineers were quite senior and self directed. It was a pleasure to work with them.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
The app was released (roughly) on time. It works like a charm and they really went the extra mile to make sure it looked fantastic. Along the way, they kept making recommendations for improvements and took the time to clearly outline trade offs.
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
Clear communication all the way through, via Slack, video conference and the Jira board. I never felt blindsided or that I didn’t know what people were working on.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
The CEO is the most genuine and friendly person, and it really reflects on the rest of the team. I have very rarely worked with people who feel as much like true partners as the BrightMarbles team.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
Honestly, they were fantastic. We couldn't have worked any better together.
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Mobile App Dev for Healthcare Company
"They are very good at coding and giving solutions."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I am the CTO of a startup that provides an online healthcare service in the form of medical consultations via app. We serve thousands of customers through the help of dozens of remote practitioners.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
Our Android and iOS native apps long needed maintenance and improvements. We lacked the engineering power to go through the effort so we asked BrightMarbles to upgrade the apps to the modern days and develop additional new features.
What were your goals for this project?
Upgrade the apps to current state of the art and implement two new features.
How did you select BrightMarbles?
I already collaborated we their sister company, Vega IT, in the past while working at another startup. They suggested BrightMarbles as the perfect partners for our needs and after a satisfying first meeting and quote, we went for it.
Describe the project in detail.
After a couple of meeting we met the actual engineers that would be working on our codebase and set up all the necessary tasks and information sharing. Collaboration and communication was excellent.
What was the team composition?
We had assigned two software engineers, the first on iOS quite senior and the second a little less senior. I managed them as my resources, as part o my team, for 4 weeks with almost daily meetings and good communication.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
Both native apps are now up to date, stable and will be good for the next year, while our customer and collaborators will enjoy the new functionalities.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
I managed directly the two resources, via Skype, with daily meetings and a task tracker to describe and distribute the work. Also keeping an eye on software changes and code quality via central code repository on GitLab. No issues with language at all, they all spoke fluent english.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
Above average seniority and expertise, I personally learn a lot from the engineers and the hourly rate was good considered my past experiences.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Nothing worth noting here. Just an overall good work and good impression.
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Healthcare Startup MVP
"The founders were very involved in the business and very clearly understood my needs."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I'm the Founder and CEO of a pharmacy delivery startup based in Chicago, IL USA. We build tools for pharmacies to offer online checkout and delivery.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles, and what were your goals?
I hired BrightMarbles to build my MVP/ V1 product to take to potential customers. The product is a web-based consumer and B2B product.
How did you select BrightMarbles and what were the deciding factors?
BrightMarbles stood out from the other firms I was speaking with. The founders were very involved in the business and very clearly understood my needs.
As a non-technical founder, it was important to me that the firm I was working with simplified lines communication and played the role of CTO.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
The MVP was a web-based consumer and B2B product. The key deliverables were building web-based login and check-out workflows and a B2B admin product and dashboard.
How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
Three BrightMarbles team members worked with me, the two founders, and a fantastic developer.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
The product BrightMarbles built was responsible for me landing a key initial partnership and also was highly leveraged for securing initial advisors and investors.
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.
We used Slack and Zoom meetings to meet and coordinate progress and questions.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
The team's ability to foresee my needs and execute on the plan we developed together with little additional involvement from me is second to none.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
Nothing - BrightMarbles is great!
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Mobile App Dev for Capacity & Crowd Management Platform
"They have shown great passion and were keen to give quality input from start to end."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Spaze was founded during the beginning of the Dutch Covid-19 crisis by eight entrepreneurs. As a digital designer I was responsible for UX/UI for this project and worked closely with Bright Marbles to streamline the experience.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
Because time was a key factor in the realization of this project, we were looking for a cost-friendly IT company that could build the app in a matter of weeks. Bright Marbles ticked both boxes.
What were your goals for this project?
Spaze uses QR to monitor the amount of people inside a venue and uses that data to prevent people from forming a queue outside by warning them that it's busy and by forming a virtual queue instead. Because this solution is almost entirely Covid-19 related it was important that we could publish and promote the application as soon as possible.
How did you select BrightMarbles?
I personally asked around for IT companies that fit our needs. Eventually I stumbled upon a Dutch design company through Facebook that worked with Bright Marbles on a regular basis. After a few virtual meetings we realized that we found the right fit.
Describe the project in detail.
We started off the project with a few sparring sessions. I was responsible for all design so I created a high fidelity prototype. We agreed on building a demo version first so we could start doing sales as soon as possible. Once they got their hands on the designs they immediately started building the demo. While we contacted retail companies they continued building the mobile application and the desktop dashboard. We had weekly meetings where they would show their progress and we would provide feedback. The work they should was clear and of great quality.
What was the team composition?
The team consisted of a project manager, a flutter developer, a backend developer and a frontend developer.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
It's hard to demonstrate success thus far as it's a two sided marketplace and we're yet to sign our first client but as far as I'm concerned they delivered on all three key aspects: quality, speed and cost efficiency. A variety of businesses responded with great enthusiasm while trying the dashboard & mobile app.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
The project manager was a great communicator, was always open to a discussion and guided us through the process really well.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
Probably the dedication to the project. They have shown great passion and were keen to give quality input from start to end. On top of that, they live up to their promise and worked extremely hard to get things done within the given timeframe.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Evidently there have been slight miscommunications throughout the process but nothing worth mentioning. Mostly they were caused by language barriers (we communicated in English).
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Java & .NET Dev for Software Development Firm
"We know that we’ll get great engineers for our projects...who won’t leave after we invest in onboarding them."
the reviewer
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
We’re a software development company based in Serbia. We have a 200-developer team, and we’ve been the fastest-growing company in Serbia for years, and one of the most desirable ones for employees. Our clients are mostly in Western Europe.
What challenge were you trying to address with BrightMarbles?
We need help with our projects from time to time, for which we engage with companies like BrightMarbles.
What was the scope of their involvement?
BrightMarbles has done both complete projects on their own, as a white-label team, and they’ve worked as an extension to our team. They mainly provide software development, but they’ve also offered project and product management services. The main technologies involved are Java, .NET, and JavaScript, but they’ve also worked with Flutter and React Native.
We work with them when we have a peak in demand and need additional resources, or when we require skillsets that we don’t have in-house.
What is the team composition?
If we need them as an extension for our team, we’ll usually only get developers from BrightMarbles. If we give them a complete project, they will form a team consisting of project managers and other roles as well.
How did you come to work with BrightMarbles?
We knew their founders since before they were part of BrightMarbles, and we knew how skilled and hardworking they were. We gave them a chance, and it went great. The other people in BrightMarbles have similar work ethics.
How much have you invested with them?
The overall cost of their work so far is around €400,000 (approximately $475,000 USD).
What is the status of this engagement?
We started working with BrightMarbles in early 2017 and are continuing to partner together.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
When working with BrightMarbles, we don’t have to worry at all that the job won’t be done on time, that the quality will be lower than what our internal people would deliver, or that there would be confusion on their end on who’s doing what and who’s covering the cost.
We can fully trust them, and we know that they can complete the work just as if they were our internal team. They see our partnership not as a one-time deal but as something continuous.
How did BrightMarbles perform from a project management standpoint?
Everything goes smoothly when we work with them. We use a number of project tracking tools based on what the client is demanding, including Jira and Basecamp. BrightMarbles is flexible to using any tool.
What did you find most impressive about them?
They’re able to hire great engineers and keep them for long periods of time. This makes us feel comfortable because we know that we’ll get great engineers for our projects and that the people we’ve worked with won’t leave after we’ve invested time and money onboarding them.
Are there any areas they could improve?
There’s nothing they could’ve improved in terms of the actual work, but it would be great if they had even more people. There have been times when there was more work than our team and theirs could handle. I don’t see this as a negative, given that BrightMarbles is investing in growth.
Do you have any advice for future clients of theirs?
One thing that works great for us is building a level of trust. If we give BrightMarbles our full trust, they will put the right people on the right projects. We wouldn’t insist on having the person with the most years of experience on a project, because we know that a mid-level developer can sometimes be better at specific technologies and deliver better results.
We don’t insist on having every single detail as we’d imagine it in best-case scenarios. We give BrightMarbles a lot of freedom to suggest the best solution for us, both when it comes to setting up the team or proposing technologies.
I’d suggest that clients start with a smaller assignment and earn BrightMarbles’ trust, then go with a full-trust approach.
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Mobile App Dev for Innovative Coffee Shop
"They have also become critical advisors in helping us make the best decisions."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Bandit Coffee is a company bringing innovation to the way we enjoy our beverage. With the mindset of a technology company, Bandit developed an app that helps its consumers personalize, order, and pay for high-quality coffee and other products. This cuts out waiting in line and offers fast service; customers simply collect their coffee in Bandit's nearest coffee shop. Jeff H. Founding Engineer at Bandit
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
We hired a team from BrightMarbles to help us develop the Bandit Coffee app, together with superior visual identity and flawless user experience. Since we are a technology company and given that it is the heart of our business, the app had to be fast, intuitive, easily navigated, bugless. On the other hand, the whole brand's visual design has to be on par with its superior reputation.
What were your goals for this project?
As stated in the answer above, we wanted everything to be impeccable and in the highest quality, from our app, and its user experience, to the whole visual identity of the brand.
How did you select this vendor?
Through Digital Knights, an elite software engineering network. We wanted a reliable partner.
Describe the project in detail.
We want our company to disrupt the coffee market. We want a new, improved, digitalized experience for true coffee lovers. We want our service to be personalized for every customer and delivered in no time. Our go-to way to achieve this is an app.
Splendid user experience, basic filtering, and sorting options, the possibility to personalize the product and the order, and contactless payment were required. The other part of the project was to help us elevate our general visual identity and make it more consistent.
What was the team composition?
Senior iOS developer, senior backend developer, and senior UI/UX designer.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
We are more than happy with both the results of their work and the quality of their written code. We’re still working with BrightMarbles, satisfied with the team and their initiative. In the future, we’re planning to scale up the current team.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
Our workflow has been effective. As a client, at the start of our collaboration, we had the possibility to see our team’s CVs and portfolios and we had a word when our team was formed. Our day-to-day communication with a team is productive. We hold daily meetings and by-weekly release cycles.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
BrightMarbles has a skilled team. Guys are very expert and knowledgeable about the technology we use on the project and best practices. Next to the fact that they are quite strong in both UI/UX and coding, they have also become critical advisors in helping us make the best decisions related to architecture, development process, plan, etc.
Guys in our team and the management members we communicated with are real professionals.
Are there any areas for improvement?
No. We’re satisfied with everything.
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Dev Staff Augmentation for IT Outsourcing Co.
"If you start with an honest conversation, you’ll get the most out of it."
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A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the co-founder of an IT outsourcing company in Serbia. We provide IT services to our clients. A majority of our clients are based in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the UK.
What challenge were you trying to address with BrightMarbles?
We were looking to hire developers for staff augmentation.
What was the scope of their involvement?
Their developers extended our own team. They developed a software solution for a client in Switzerland.
We were looking for developers with Java experience. The most important thing for us was that the developers had great technical skills, but we also wanted developers who are engaged and proactive because we didn’t know all the answers.
We wanted developers who are ready to propose solutions and discuss various things together with us, and not just execute what we told them to do.
What is the team composition?
We worked with four people from BrightMarbles.
How did you come to work with BrightMarbles?
They were recommended to us by an associate.
How much have you invested with them?
It was around $70,000.
What is the status of this engagement?
The project lasted six months, and we started working with them in May 2019.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
The solution we built for our client, together with BrightMarbles, is now used in major banks in Switzerland for tracking their IT equipment. They have their own data centers, and they had a lot of equipment, but they didn’t have a good management system for all that equipment. The client was very happy.
How did BrightMarbles perform from a project management standpoint?
We were so happy with the project. We had a milestone every couple of weeks.
What did you find most impressive about them?
With two of the milestones, we literally had to work day and night, including weekends, to accomplish the milestone and deliver this on time. It was because of last-minute changes on the client-side, so things got a little more complicated, but it was important that we still delivered everything on time.
Are there any areas they could improve?
They are doing great, and I wouldn’t know what to add. We are going to work on some projects in the future.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
Be completely transparent about what you’re looking for. Speak with their CEO. He’s a very nice guy. He’s also very transparent about what they can and cannot do. If you start with an honest conversation, you’ll get the most out of it.
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Staff Augmentation for Software Development Firm
"We were pleased with BrightMarbles in general and would collaborate with them again."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Founded 25 years ago, Comtrade is a group of technology companies. With their impressive track record of innovation, they contributed to developing some of the world's most advanced software.
The company was founded as a software engineering and services company, but today Comtrade has evolved into a software product business, a services company, and a systems integrator.
With world-class infrastructure and campuses in 10 countries, Comtrade operates as a holding company for vibrant companies and an incubator for new and exciting technologies on the cutting edge. Jelena Ječmenić Alliances & Channel Manager at Comtrade Solutions
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
We hired two front-end senior developers from BrightMarbles to augment our development team of the corporate self-service portal for one of the leading energy companies in Europe.
What were your goals for this project?
The project's goal was to achieve a consistent user experience throughout the whole web ecosystem in response to the management and developmental challenges (different content management systems, expensive upgrade of current eShop, cooperation with vendors, etc.)
How did you select this vendor?
We have outstanding and long term collaboration with them and this is just one of many projects where BrightMarbles has been our development partner.
Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.
As stated before, the project's goal was to develop and redesign the corporate self-service portal or moreover deliver a new Digital Experience Platform.
What was the team composition?
The team is: Project Manager, Solution Architect/Development Lead, Development and Testing team. BrightMarbles provided two engineers for the development team.
Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?
The developed solution produced positive outcomes for the client, which was evident when comparing results to the predetermined KPIs.
How was project management arranged and how effective was it?
For communication, we used different tools, such as Jira, Slack, Skype, etc. And as it is the case with most of our projects, this one also uses Scrum as a development process, so we had daily stand-up meetings and used a three-week sprint cycle.
The team members talked about the status on a daily and weekly basis and adjusted the development process accordingly. BrightMarbles's developers acted, and were treated as other team members, and were held accountable for the tasks they did.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
We were pleased with BrightMarbles in general and would collaborate with them again. They were approachable, willing to make changes, and responsive.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Nothing comes to mind at this point.
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Saleslide API Development for Outsourcing Company
"Brightmarbles helped us explore business opportunities and further develop our network."
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
Marble It is an outsourcing company from Novi Sad, Serbia, which helps clients from multiple European/American countries create bespoke software solutions and achieve shorter T2M. I am currently a CTO & Partner at our company.
For what projects/services did your company hire BrightMarbles?
We outsourced the API part of the Saleslide system to Brightmarbles, which was basically a proxy API between multiple third-party services. Deadline was short and we didn't have enough people on our side, so we hired them to help us build all layers of the API (data, business, api).
What were your goals for this project?
Our goal was to achieve the MVP features (both client and API) in 10 weeks, to meet the client's deadline.
How did you select this vendor?
They are known in Novi Sad as one of the top expert companies for that section of software engineering, so we wanted to hire professionals to help us.
Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.
Project was a web app + multi-platform game for connecting retailers and consumers of different brands that wanted to advertise through the game part of the app. Customers collected points through the game, which they could later use through discounts in different stores.
We developed the Vue client side part of the Web app (dashboard, profile, stores etc.) and Brightmarbles arranged the underlying endpoints in .NET (controllers, services and the data layer)
What was the team composition?
Brightmarbles arranged 2 API devs and we arranged 2 frontend developers. I was the tech lead on the project and client arranged a PO.
Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?
Since we were a smaller company at the time, it was difficult for us to follow the tempo of some of our clients. Brightmarbles helped us keep the client, which led to new business opportunities and further development of our network.
How was project management arranged and how effective was it?
In this case, client arranged a PO which was in charge for the management.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
The smoothness of their inclusion on the project. Usually there is a period when new people need to adapt to the project, but their guys took the deadline seriously and we managed to finish some of the features in the first days of our cooperation.
Are there any areas for improvement?
The process went smoothly until the end, so I don't think that there are many areas that we could have improved. It would be even easier if we had a team in-house, but isn't something that we are going to require from our vendor.
Thanks to BrightMarbles' support, the client had bug-free platforms. The team produced high-quality work, and they were able to incorporate all the client's requirements into their deliverables. Customers can expect responsiveness, dedication, and timeliness.