BuildApps

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Chief Executive Officer of DevsX

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Software development

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Web Application Developer for a Utility Implementation Company with List-based Approach

SOLUTION

How did you find BuildApps?

Clutch Site, Other

Why did you select BuildApps over others?

Close to my geographic location, Pricing fit our budget, Good value for cost

What was the size of BuildApps’s team?

1 Employee

What was your primary form of communication with BuildApps?

Virtual Meeting, Email or Messaging App

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

The scope of work for developing a front-end React application includes designing and implementing user interfaces, building components, integrating with APIs, and ensuring responsiveness across devices. The key deliverables include a fully-functional React application with polished UI, optimized code for fast page loading, and comprehensive testing for bug-free performance.

The developer will need to work closely with the back-end team to integrate data and logic, and ensure a seamless user experience.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

During the work, we"re set ambitious goals with an exact deadline for their implementation. During the calls, we discussed the details of the tasks and gradually moved forward.

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

Every task was completed on time. Problems that arose during the work were corrected in time. Management was done using third-party services such as Jira.

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

They may consider their communication style, experience or quality of work to be very high. They easily understood and competently assessed the company's needs to provide customized solutions.

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

I plan to work with the company in the future, so I did not notice any obvious problems. The company is growing, but their processes are at a reasonable level.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am CEO of outsourcing company headquatered in Kyiv, Ukraine, which provides workers for logistics and manufactures over the country.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to create a mobile application for our workers and office employees. Due to this app, our workers had to get an opportunity to register for work, track their income, build their working plans. Our office managers had to get functions of creating the orders from any place, signing up our workers for the orders, getting information about workers and clients.

SOLUTION

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

We started to work on this project with other company, which won our tender. But that company wasn't successful, they decided to leave our project, after that BuildApps was the only contractor who agreed to continue this project with us on terms of our tender. We shook hands and implemented the project.

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

First of all, I have to say that terms of our project were longer that we planned because of war in Ukraine that had started in February 2022. Our company stopped activity on MobApp-project for almost 3 month. The second problem was the substitution of head of the project from our side, it added some issues. So, real duration could be 4-5 months. In the beginning we agreed the plan, the project was divided on 11 stages. Also we created a chat in messenger to discuss issues as quickly as possible. After every stage we checked the produced part, fixed bugs and moved further. Sometimes we understood that we wanted an additional options, so than we evaluated them and included to the plan.

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

We contacted constantly a client-manager and 1-2 developers. But I am not sure that nobody else worked on our project)

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our MobApp is only for internal using) So, we can't say something like "it was downloaded 5 mln. times") But the main is that it works, it executes the functions we need and it for sure better that we had earlier)

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

During our project we had 2 or 3 times when we had different evaluations of executed work, but I think that are normal situations and we successfully solved all of them by negotiations. So, it was quite pleasant to communicate and work together. The resources from BuildApps are mostly constructive and effective, a majority of issues we were solving very fast in messenger or sometimes on meetings, it never was a problem)

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

I am not the big professional on Mobile Apps creation, so for me it was very important to make a well-executing application, that satisfies the need of our workers and managers. I hope, we made it) The most valuable for me in our cooperation was that partners from BuildApps offered all the time their own proposals to make an App better, they weren't just executers, they were really involved in the project)

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

I don't have any ideas)

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am an executive of TrueSport

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Sport mobile application

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Mobile Development

SOLUTION

How did you find BuildApps?

Online Search

Why did you select BuildApps over others?

• High ratings
• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from BuildApps were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

We needed to build the entire cross-platform mobile application from scratch using XMAL and connect it with a backend infrastructure in Azure. BuildApps team was responsible for application design, implementation and project planning.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Regular demos and weekly check-ins

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

BuildApps were always great in keeping their commitments achieving milestones on time.

What was your primary form of communication with BuildApps?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They are professional, responsive, always try and support clients with any additional asks immediately.

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

Nope, keep it up!

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the owner of management consulting firm which focuses on ESG investment advisory, business development and transformational projects.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our website was initially made very low-cost, using wordpress CMS and free theme. This cost us a lot of head-aches, lost opportunities and unwanted stress due to vague functionality of the wordpress platform. After consideration, we started a completely new design of our website with BuildApps, where we offered previously prepared UI graphics in Figma. BuildApps had in responsibility to prepare frontend, backend and CMS linking for our domain and make sure the deployment of the website will be successful.

SOLUTION

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

We made a connection by Upwork platform, where I choose BuildApps due to shown experience and knowledge about the assignment by CEO of BuildApps, Ivan. Before we closed an agreement, I could see how simply can he explain a difficult to understand topics and technologies - main factor of showing expertise according to many.

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

We had multiple video calls + emails, and whatsapp communication when needed. Initially, I explained my vision, and we established multiple milestones for the project and set deliverables. The technologies used consisted of Strapi CMS, javascript coding and IP /Webhosting linking during the last step of development - deployment of the website.

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

4 people, counting CEO, CTO, CMO, CRO.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Visually and technically, the platform looked a lot better. the improved general feeling, loading speed and ease of use.

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

Weekly follow-up calls, shared files, instant communication etc.

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

That they were able to finish the assignment while their cities were under bombing attacks - I think this speaks for everything.

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

There was hardly any constructive criticism from my side. I think I have already found the best development agency for long-term cooperation on various projects.