Cyanic Lab

Please describe your company and your position there.

Subcontracted this job out to Clutch

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

We needed to create a custom website solution for a client that allowed the client to make learning resources available to subscribers and enable the creation of those resources by contributors.

How did you select Cyanic Lab and what were the deciding factors?

I had worked with members of Cyanic prior to this job becoming available and was very impressed with their expertise and willingness to go the extra mile when required

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

To begin with Cyanic had no experience of working with headless CMS, however they upskilled very quickly and were able to create a first iteration based on the project brief in a very short time. Multiple iterations have been completed as the client made changes and the site is now ready to go live.

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

Project manager and one programmer

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

The site is about to go live and so no deliverables are known at this time

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

Google Docs were our primary method of communication RE the business plan

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

Very professional, willing to listen, good command of English and committed to completing the job, HIGHLY recommend working with them

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

I'd say a more structured communication time for updates BUT generally, when we couldn't communicate it was more my fault than theirs

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the owner of a software development company. We are developing web services.

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

Our client's eCommerce site was over six years old. Due to missing in-house developers, we hired a developer from Cyanic Lab to help implement the UI and backend part of the application together with our in-house developer. The goals were to implement functionalities of the current application, separate UI and backend to make further development easier and make UI lightning fast and modern.

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

The vendor contacted us directly. Experience and communication skills were significant factors.

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

The vendor joined the ongoing project. The developer was given a short introduction to the application. Work was given as JIRA tickets. Key deliverables have been backend and frontend task implementations. Our technologies are PHP Lumen Laraval, React and MySQL.

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

One person as a developer.

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

The application is still developing, but the deliverables have been excellent.

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

We use Slack, JIRA, and Confluence Wiki for communication and task sharing. Independent working culture.

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

They demonstrate excellent communication and programming skills.

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

Not really

Please describe your company and your position there.

CTO, we help ideas grow by providing tech solutions to our customers

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

Cyanic Lab is helping us developing a CRM app for our end client.

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

We had an interview together with their team and decided to go with them based on my own experience in tech.

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

We delivered a requirement list and are discussing with their developer on a daily basis about current work, problems, solutions etc. Tech used, React Frontend and Node backend

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

one Project Manager and one developer

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

They've been consistent, professional, and communicative.

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

We setup a written daily start and end in Slack with current development to follow the process.

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

They are positive, proactive and has no prestige. Gives solution ideas but changes if other solution is given in discussion.

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

No.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a consulting firm focusing on data visualization services. I am the CTO of the company.

For what projects/services did your company hire Cyanic Lab?

We are developing a dashboard prototype and Cyanic Lab helped us develop some of the pages

How did you select Cynaic Lab and what were the deciding factors?

We meet in a confluence and decided to give a try.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

We need to build a dashboard with customized chart and filtering function over an experimental backend api. We used React for the frontend and charting is done in d3. The experimental backend is in GraphQL and we used urql as client.

How many resources from the Cynaic Lab team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We have 1 developer from Cyanic Lab with us.

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

Due to the nature of prototyping, the goal and scope changes during the project. However, Cyanic Lab managed to stay in line with us and deliver.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Communication was good, we have short daily meetings and Cyanic Lab is flexible with the meeting schedule.

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

Good communication with decent code quality.

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

Not much, we only had a pretty short collaboration, but we are interested in future collaborations.

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO and CTO of Web and Software Development Company based in Europe

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

Frontend and API Development

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

Good CV's and also visible finished Projects.

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

React App as Frontend for a WordPress CMS Backend.

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

2 Persons, Developer and Projekt Manament

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

Very transparent and reliable on a weekly base

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

Tools we use is WhatsApp, Asana, Toggl, Github very fast responses.

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

After our first week, it's been easy to find trust in this company. 

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

For now i am very satisfied

Please describe your company and your position there.

Call center and marketing.

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

Creating a custom CRM application.

How did you select Cyanic Lab and what were the deciding factors?

Done work in the past, easy to work with, and budgets.

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

This is an update of a current product that we added a new app, development, and modules to make a custom product.

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

Two developers and a project manager.

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

This is an ongoing development project, but I can say we been able to add most features we required on this project to date.

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

We have been using Skype, and Google Docs as the primary tools. This enabled very fast responses on any requests

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

They are professional, good listeners, and offer good comments about requests, and committed to finishing the project. Great guys overall.

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

We started this project with another internal team. That team should have had a much better projection, scope of work and diagram, to better manage the overall projects communication and features