CodeStore

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founder of a Legal Services Firm specializing in Intellectual Property Management and Consulting.

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

We required a integrated software system that would enable our clients to submit their requests along with all documentation and receive the deliverables in our specific format through the software as well. We wanted to keep track of the project allocations, time spent by our analysts/patent agents and pricing/invoicing information with the software. Our special report format needed integration with several third party systems and interfaces from various PTOs.

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

Our project was complex and we wanted to partner with a solutions developer who could understand our needs and related challenges. Codestore asked for detailed specifications before committing and made sure our requirements and expectations were clearly known before quoting costs and time. This made us comfortable as we were reassured that they knew what was required and would be able to deliver.

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

They designed and developed a cloud-based system for end to end management of IP search projects.

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

There was one Project Manager and one Team Leader who were in direct contact with us. They managed design/development and testing resources internally.

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

They delivered a robust software solution without any significant delays in timelines. We are satisfied with the product and their after deployment service.

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

The project manager and team lead handled the project very well. They met all major milestone deadlines with accountability and deep understanding of the project and technologies involved. We communicated mostly through MS Teams and email.

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

They understood our specific needs very well and met the deadlines. They have great command over the technologies they work with and ensured that all our concerns were addresses in a polite and timely manner.

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

they can improve their s/w testing process to catch more bugs early and reduce issues at release time.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am owner of a car rental company and we are into proving cabs and CHAUFFEURS.

For what projects/services did your company hire Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd, and what were your goals?

we were looking to get a mobile app developed where a user can sign up and post their requirements for a cab and on the other side CHAUFFEURS can login and can see all the posts and can bid on them and once the bidding is done, user can select one CHAUFFEURS.

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

so, we got to know about codestore from a refferal, who had some work done in past. and the team is very confident about their work and shown us some past work as well.

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

we got a mobile app for the user, one mobile app for the drivers and a dashboard for owner to check the overall month on month bookings and which driver is performing better and see payouts as well.

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

a total of 10 people worked on the platform as its a complex project. a project manager, team lead, 6 developers - including front end , back end, mobile app developer etc. 2 testers, to test the mobile app and webapp.

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

Overall, we got a good solution and the project was delivered on time. the first version of it is delived with in 3 months and post that we were getting monthly deliverables with new features and fixes as per the feedback we got from the clients.

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

quite professional on that note. proper bi weekly meetings with demo on the progress and always open to accomodate the changes asked. used MS teams for the meetings. and azure devops used for project management.

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

they are having a good team sync and ajay(ceo) is also technical and have designed the software architecture for us.

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

none as on now. my overall expereince with them was good.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the President of a Engineering company that supports manufacturing, distribution, various specialised businesses around the world.

For what projects/services did your company hire Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd, and what were your goals?

We were offered the opportunity to work on a specialized, proprietary program for the packaging industry. It required a new set of skills that were not our main strength. We hired Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd to be a development consultant with specialized coding skills, inform us regarding best methods and technologies to accomplish the tasks.

How did you select Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd and what were the deciding factors?

Ajay reached out to me after finding my company on the internet (LinkedIn) and made an introduction. He maintained contact and when the opportunity came to work together, his company was ready to start immediately.

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

The project required us to review existing, outdated applications built on non-supported versions of windows. We met with the customers, learned what they did, and how they used the program to run their business, designed a new software application to solve their issues.

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

I worked with two key individuals, Ajay K. was my primary business contact and was excellent at making sure we had a good team, good communication, and all financial aspects of the project. The second person, Poornima T., was an excellent programmer/point of contact with Codestore. She was responsible for all coding and testing on the vendors site.

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

The project had a couple of milestones that Codestore directly contributed to completing. Database Creation and installation. Initial Data Collection and storage Reporting. Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd was able to create their own local development system, kept our development system updated, and respond quickly with needed updates and changes.

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

Our project was divided into 2 sections, financial and development. We had twice monthly communication with management discussing how the project was going, did we feel good participation, and any cost/finance issue. We had weekly, sometimes daily, meetings with the lead programmer and our company to discuss the project, any needs, concerns, and to perform testing and customer requested changes. We used Skype, email, and virtual machines chats and remote desktop tools routinely in this project.

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

Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd showed ease of communication and commitment to excellence in the finished project. Poornima was very knowledgeable and easy to work with. Ajay maintained communication with us on a regular basis.

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

There were no issues on this development and no areas identified.

Please describe your company and your position there.

The product I am working on is contract management and electronic signature app. I am the CEO of the company.

For what projects/services did your company hire Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd, and what were your goals?

My project comprised of multiple technology front-end Angular, back-end Dot Net, and Azure cloud. Codestore Technology is developing the end to end application UI and back-end infrastructure.

How did you select Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd and what were the deciding factors?

The reason I selected CodeStore is for the pool of talented developers and the hourly rate.

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

They have developed a cloud-based SAS app to handle contract management. They were responsible for taking a concept and design the app and implementation. We worked a 1-week sprint, we had two weekly calls. Monday start of the sprint and Friday sprint close meeting.

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

There are 4 engineers worked on my project. There are two front end developer, one back-end API developer, and one tester.

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

They are very easy to work with, very reasonable hourly rate. If I have any issue I can always escalate and get a quick response.

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

We implemented an agile project management style. We followed a one-week sprint cycle, we set up tasks at the start of the sprint and validated them at the end of the sprint. We used skype as our communication tool.

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

The key features I like about them is on-time delivery, problem-solving, they can take any concept from me and come up with a design and implementation.

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

None.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am founder of a logistics based startup.

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

we were looking for a vendor to provide us reliable software development services, we had our idea on how we can change the management of logistics and improve the efficiency and productivity of various cargo.

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

we found that codestore is having prior experience in logistic based application and in logistic domain and based on that we prefer to go with them.

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

we were looking for a vendor who can provide end to end software development services. beginning from developing scope of work, wireframing, designing, software development and coding, deployment and post deployment support as well for feature enhancements.

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

a total of 7 members were working for us, including one point of contact as project manager and rest of the team was handled by them. 2 back end developers, 2 front end developers, 1 designer, 1 team lead.

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

in the duration of 7 months, various milestones were decided to deliver. and they did deliver the following on time:

1. detailed scope of work document with market analysis and functional flows. 
2. complete wireframing of the web app and mobile app.
3. complete designs of the whole system.
4. various milestones divided across development and coding of the app.
5. deployment of the apps on servers and play store and app store.
6. handing over the source code, documentations.

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

they are very well organized by using various tools, such as MS project, Devops, Github, Jira, etc. along with very good response time.

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

The project manager appointed to us was very good. along with that management is very much reachable at any point of time. code quality is very good compared to other vendors at this price point.

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

i am not able to find any scope of improvement. they are doing good work. we wish them luck and success.

Please describe your company and your position there.

After staying few years in USA thought of starting a Venture and found scope in dating industry. and I am the founder of that venture.

For what projects/services did your company hire Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd, and what were your goals?

we were looking for a software development company. who can do end to end development of a dating app and can take care of the maintenance as well.

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

we got to know them from the referral. one of their previous client reviewed them and i found that review valuable so I contacted them and then decide to work with codestore.

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

they developed a mobile app from design to development which includes features like creating a profile uploading photos and short videos and other users of similar interest near by will be able to see the profile and can initiate a conversation. Alongwith that a web app for the administrator to check active number of users and other analytics.

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

there were six people working with one point of contact as project manager and two developers one designer and one tester and one team lead.

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

the overall output was good and delivered on time. as an outcome we got wireframes of the whole app, designs of the app and well developed mobile app.

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

for project management they used azure devops, and following agile method with weekly calls to demonstrate the overall progress.

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

I was impressed with their clear communication and proactiveness.

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

A brief documentation was provided but a detailed one would be much better.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the founder and CEO of the company. which is a Start-up in the domain of Cloud Services.

For what projects/services did your company hire Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd, and what were your goals?

Our company hired Codestore to develop the first version of a MVP as a proof of concept for the feasibility of the project.

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

I met the Sales rep and CEO at a Tech convention in Dubai. Decided to go with Codestore because of the confidence and flexibility the CEO showed during our encounter.

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

Build a subset of functionality for the product which consists of some public cloud API assessment, development of Backend microservices, and development of frontend web interface to satisfy handful of customer journeys.

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

3 Developers including one lead.

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

Not much metrics to share because the project is on halt for now, as we need to focus more on the design and requirements detailing which was initially missed.

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

They were a very flexible team. Good communication with the lead developer. The team care about customer satisfaction.

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

Flexibility and open communication with the leadership team.

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

The company could pay more attention to the consulting side of the business as many small companies do not necessarily have clear and detailed requirements from the start; more time and effort should be captured at the start of the project in order to understand the need. - The company could invest in CLM and especially payment processing through modern online platform could help improving the invoice and payment.

Please describe your company and your position there.

After working for 10 years in IP consulting, I thought of doing my own startup.

For what projects/services did your company hire Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd, and what were your goals?

I was looking to develop a product for searching for trademarks and making sure if a particular trademark is already registered or not. It would help in reducing the manual efforts any IP consultant goes through during the whole process.

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

I was looking for a team that can do such kind of projects in a reasonable budget. And have expertise in software development domain.

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

A web based search tool was developed and delivered. We consumed a lot of publically available apis to see if the trademark of such kind is already registered or not. They used latest technologies like angular and dot net core.

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

So, a total of 5 members were working with me. One project coordinator, One designer, Two developers and One tester.

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

The project was completed well on time. Since a Qa was actively involved since the beginning, our time to market was significantly reduced.

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

They had allocated a dedicated project co-ordinator for our project. We usually had weekly scrum calls with the entire team over MS teams to monitor progress and discuss any queries they had. Also we would communicate over emails/teams to address any urgent queries. They were very prompt with their response and this ensured there were no delays to the timelines for any sprint.

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

Their clear communication and adherence to timelines were what made this project a success. They were deeply invested in the project and would give active suggestions to make this product better.

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

I had a very smooth experience with the team and cannot think of anything i would like to change at the moment.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the founder of a social media and messaging platform that generates revenue for NGOs of India.

For what projects/services did your company hire Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd?

Front end and back end development of our product for android, iOS and web.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to launch our prpduct in the market

How did you select Codestore Technologies Pvt Ltd?

We heard about then from a friend and that's how started the communication with them

Describe the project in detail.

We were time crunched as most of the companies would be and codestore solutions was on point with our timelines.

What was the team composition?

There was a team of 6 individuals working on our project. We were in communications with the project lead only.

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

Our journey was quite smooth sailing. We had a few setbacks as our product was tech heavy and complicated. Due to the pandemic in 2020, we could unfortunately not complete our project.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Inituly we had a few setbacks but then things started falling in place.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The founder was on point, understanding and had great solutions.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Their developers.