Cheesecake Labs

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Head of Engineering of Reflex Careers, Inc

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Building the best way to work in retail by creating the gig-like marketplace

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire Cheesecake Labs to accomplish?

• Build mobile MVP

SOLUTION

How did you find Cheesecake Labs?

Referral

Why did you select Cheesecake Labs over others?

Close to my geographic location, Good value for cost

What was the size of Cheesecake Labs’s team?

2-5 Employees

What was your primary form of communication with Cheesecake Labs?

In-Person Meeting, Virtual Meeting

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

Build the MVP app that includes these specific criteria:

• Use ReactNative and deploy to both iOS and Android
• CI/CD deploys to both stores when pushing changes
• App to focus on the biggest of three primary user groups
• Interact with an existing GraphQL API backend
• Take designs built in-house and handed off to Cheesecake engineers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Functional application that satisfies requested requirements

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

Team management was owned by Reflex. Delivery was on schedule with no billing surprises. Developers were prompt in responding to requests.

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

Developers were competent and had good velocity. Communication with the team was clear and timely.

Are there any areas for improvement or something {provider_name} could have done differently?

No issues of particular note

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the co-founder and CTO of a shopping rewards platform that provides opportunities for donating cash back to nonprofit organizations. We were a small firm in the Bay Area and relied heavily on outsourced resources during our growth phase for iterations on product launches.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Cheesecake Labs?

We hired Cheesecake to continue building and maintaining one of our mobile apps.

What were your goals for this project?

Our goals were to complete quick feature iterations and bug fixes while maintaining updates with the Swift programming language and device compatibility.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We had worked with Cheesecake in the past for a different venture and were pleased with the results. They were the obvious choice for us.

Describe the project in detail.

We built our proof of concept mobile app and got it to market to judge its success. After we decided to move forward with it, we reached out to Victor [Co-founder and CEO, Cheesecake Labs] and his team to discuss options. Victor was quick to resource and ramp up development support. His team quickly integrated into our workflow and picked up on the goals and intricacies of this project.

What was the team composition?

There were a few developers from Cheesecake working with me on build releases.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Cheesecake always provides a great service. Their developers are knowledgeable and friendly.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Great. They go out of their way to mold into our workflows, i.e. Slack channels, video communication systems, etc.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Victor and his team are friendly and grateful. They enjoy what they do and it shows.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None.