dev.family

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of CBAY

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

CBAY is a second-hand sales solution for the yachting industry; in an industry of excess, we provide a simple full-service solution that helps superyachts sell the items they no longer use onboard.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire dev.family to accomplish?

• Build a marketplace
• Build a full service vendor solution
• Build a high quality platform with a good UX

SOLUTION

How did you find dev.family?

• Online Search
• Referral

Why did you select dev.family over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Good value for cost
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from dev.family were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

Dev.Family helped us identify solutions that would fit our go-to-market strategies with ease. We found solutions to our most complex problems. We aimed to automise a majority of the businesses administrative tasks and succeeded in the matter, some key deliverables: 

• We've automised a payment infrastructure for my business, which is commission based using Stripe Connect. 
• Along with the payment infrastructure, we've automised the documentations process in the event of sale through commission basis. 
• We've built a scalable platform.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Dev.Family always took a genuine interest in the problem solving faces of the project, I'd present a complex issue and they'd provide with solutions. Every single tweak or update I've asked for have been onboarded quickly thereafter.

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

Very well.

What was your primary form of communication with dev.family?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Their UX & UI expertise. They know what works in development and from a customer's perspective. They build platforms that can be updated and improved over time.

Are there any areas for improvement or something dev.family could have done differently?

Yes, I believe the management structure of the company should have a more direct contact with clients due to the pricing structure of the development for larger projects. The focus of a project manager should not be financial matters, in my opinion.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Founder & Owner

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

To create an app for yoga students and teachers, as well as newly certified coaches, to help learn the poses in more detail.

SOLUTION

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

This company was recommended to me by a good friend of mine who had a positive experience with dev.family

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

I’ve already had backend and design that’s why dev.family team started with frontend. They also helped to improve picture optimization and they built with the customer authorization-purchase flow with the division of functionality into paid/free, restore purchases (in case of loss/replacement of the device), binding subscription not only to Apple ID, but also to the account.

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

The team included a manager, 2 front-end developers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The app has 4.7 rating in the app store and some good reviews from clients. I do believe it’s useful for the learning, both from the point of UX/UI perspective and from the functionality.

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

The team selected the best ways to solve problems and took the initiative.

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

High level of work and expertise in react native.

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

We would like the tester to be in the project from the very beginning

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am CEO of the digital dental laboratory

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

To create an application for automating the treatment process and transferring interaction with an orthodontist online. This is a simple and user-friendly interface for patients who have ordered aligners, it helps to change one aligner to another in time, which contributes to better treatment (correction of bite). You can skip some of visits to dentist during an orthodontic treatment to get advice on the treatment process, all treatment recommendations are stored in this application.

SOLUTION

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

By the the recommendations of partners

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

The project implemented a mask for creating a photo report, a control panel for clinics – each clinic will have its own, i.e. in this way we guarantee the confidentiality of the patient's medical record.

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

The team includes 2 mobile developers, designer, manager and 2 back-end developers

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Project is testing by clients indoor

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

The project manager was always in touch

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

The company took into account all our wishes regarding the design and functionality of the mobile app, they were flexible when it was necessary to make changes in the process of working on the application without increasing the development cost.

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

Of course, I would like the launch process to go faster after development, because there were problems with publishing the application in stores

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Project Director

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

To create a modern and convenient website where guests from all over the world will be able to book hotels and transfers, and in the future to provide themselves with winter equipment. Integration with multiple booking systems, MVP development and design from scratch.

SOLUTION

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

We liked the company’s portfolio, relevant experience in tourism development, and also their high skills of working with Laravel.

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

The first stage was the business analysis and analysis of participants in the tourism business in Europe. Then the MVP development and subsequent development by agreed stages.The design stage went in parallel with the development stage, which allowed to speed up the process. After the MVP release we continue update the project.

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

The team included a manager, 2 back-end developers and 2 front-end developers, 1 designer, 1 marketing specialist.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project is at the stage of filling out the catalog and searching for additional service providers who will be able to provide a wider choice of hotel reservations

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

They constantly maintained communication - weekly calls and reports, kept up to date with everything that was happening in the project.

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

They quickly completed urgent tasks and provided additional developers as needed.

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

Drafting a more detailed business assignment

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO of the company that has organised an eSports tournament that took place in the UAE in February 2022.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

To create a dynamic mobile application where eSports enthusiasts can participate in tournaments. The challenge is to integrate an existing game to the newly created mobile application and manage the tournaments through it. Where then, the participants would be able to log their records, win prizes and unlock further in-game features.

SOLUTION

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

With the help of recommendations. Deciding factors were communication and transparency from day one. Common understanding and holistic approach to achieve the target goal.

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

Implemented integration of the very popular mobile app game PUBG Mobile using latest technologies, like React, Node.js and MySQL. Steps involved the development of UX/UI to begin with, then integrate backend using API calls and deploy front-end changes using React, while it all being hosted and managed in GCP. The second stage of development involves updating this application from the level of the usual platform for gaining access to the game at the tournament and receiving prizes, to a full-fledged application that will host the leading gaming disciplines, where you can register, monitor tournaments online, receive prizes and view the results of all tournaments, along with selection of additional disciplines like Dota, CS:GO, Fortnite etc.

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

The team includes mobile developer, designer and manager. A back-end developer was from our side.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

An app was downloaded more than 15 000 times.

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

The manager brought all the requirements and edits to the team as carefully as possible

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

A few factors to mention:

1. Very technically savvy - able to do engineering with the latest technologies like React very comfortably
2. Genuine interest in the project and maximum input allocated
3. Ability to go extra mile when required, stress/pressure and tight deadline handled outstandingly

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

The only improvement is that the team needs to grow in numbers and allocate back-end resource internally, so they could become a fully-fledged dev team, able to take on complex tasks from end-to-end.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Startup founder.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

We wanted to develop a project from scratch that would help beauty specialists and their clients book beauty services online around the world. The design was ready, so the team was doing the development — cross-platform application, backend, application control panel.

SOLUTION

How did you select dev.family and what were the deciding factors?

We used recommendations.

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

The application has two parts: "master" and "client". The client can quickly search for a master by specialization, location, filter by reviews and price. One of the interesting things is the selection of time for recording. The system takes into account not only the free time of the master, but also the duration of the selected services.

There is a private messenger to clarify the details with the master and store all the beauty correspondence in one place. It's still more interesting on the master's side. The application performs 2 important functions at once: A new tool for attracting customers. All the masters are displayed on equal terms: customers see the profile, package of services, location, prices, rating based on reviews. Automated download scheduler.

Easy Style takes over the master's schedule completely, since it can take into account not only automatic requests from the application, but also manually added: regular customer records, requests on Instagram or by phone — everything will be stored in a single scheduler. And, of course, the application has reports and detailed statistics: the number of applications and earnings for the day, week, month and the whole year.

How many resources from the dev.family team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Backend, mobile, manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Now we have 70 000 users and over 130 000 orders for the last 2 years.

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

They've constantly kept me up to date with all the work.

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

Their skills in React Native.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Head of automation department

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

We needed a new modern website with advanced page builder and usable catalogue of cars. Moreover we wanted a personal account to automate all the process with contracts.

SOLUTION

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

They have great experience in automation and the automotive business, I liked the BMW and Polymertorg cases.

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

The project has a very cool page builder, with which you can independently compile any pages like https://reso.by/urlizam-leasing. In the partner's section and on the map, there is a very advanced search.

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

The team was represented by Max as an account manager, Nikita as a tech lead, Maxim and Ilya as backend developers, Denis as a frontend developer, Ilya as a designer, Andrew as a business analytic.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project has been launched partly.

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

The team has initiative, and is responsible and professional.

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

They strive for excellence in everything, even in the part of the work that does not relate to their personal tasks.

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

To launch the last part of the project (personal account).

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO of the biggest fashion retail Fashion House. It is one of the main and oldest retailers in Belarus, which represents top fashion brands: from Mango to Emporio Armani.

A year ago even we hadn’t been represented on the Internet, but today it has one of the most advanced e-commerce solutions and complex integration with dozens of services. It is quite possible that Fashion House will become the Belarusian pioneer in new retail, which will combine offline and online into one whole unit.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

For what did you hire dev.family? To create an e-commerce solution from scratch with a lot of potential for the future. What were your goals for this project? Fully digitized business with 30 stores and 10 million visitors a year. It includes a website, an analytic system, and an app with one API, that still is improving.

SOLUTION

How did you select dev.family and what were the deciding factors?

We examined the top rating of developers in Belarus, and basically chose those who do not work with Bitrix. As a result, a series of meetings helped us to choose dev.family, as the most experienced in developing from Belarus

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

In order to make the most personalized offers to clients, they had implemented an advanced analytics system. We can get detailed data about each category and brand that are the most popular, also we know now how much it costs to attract new users, what products are viewed more often, and what goes to the cart. Also, we got email marketing tools for work with databases.

We needed authorization in the app – by phone number, so as not to force customers to remember the password, and at the same time for the update of the customer base.

To save thousands of dollars, we decided to rid users of plastic discount cards. Now the discount system is a full-fledged online tool related to 1C accounting, which stores dozens of different discounts: general, for certain categories, cumulative, personal, etc. Moreover, the app records both online and offline orders. The entire purchase history is available in the user's profile.

To create the app, dev.family used React Native, which allowed us to optimize the development, implementation, and update processes – everything was handled by one person, and it took only 3 weeks.

Moreover, the site and app have the same API, so any data updates are pulled up automatically.

The app allows you to scan the barcode in the store and visit the product page in the catalog. This gives customers access to data that previously only store employees had: all information about sizes, colors, and availability in specific stores. And, of course, in real-time.

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

Dzmitry is account manager, he works with Victor (backend) and Alexandra (frontend), Maria deals with mobile applications.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The website, the application and a dozen integrations had been made. We have more than 7,000 visits to the site daily, 20k active mobile app users. Well, everything was made from scratch for just a year, without having any background in IT.

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

Weekly synchronization and daily support

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

The ability to make everything even better, faster and simpler than it could be.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Of course, you always want to get such tools faster than it actually turned out. But I am aware of the scope of work and I am quite satisfied with the approach of the team, so we continue to improve our product together with them until now.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Marketing department, ATL — advanced lending center

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family, and what were your goals?

We needed a redesign of the corporate website. First there was a prototyping stage, then there was the design stage, when we realized that we wanted a lot of page variants.

Plus, we needed to create an individual calculator for each type of loan, so guys offered us to make a page builder and several types of calculators so we can make as many variants as we wanted. During the development process, several types of constructors were made, one of which was agreed upon.

SOLUTION

How did you select dev.family and what were the deciding factors?

This wasn't the first project we worked on. The team does whatever it takes just to deliver what we want. The team performs everything quickly and clearly, the result is immediately visible.

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

As a result, we received a constructor in the site management panel, which allows us to create radically different pages for different types of lending and for different localities to fill in pages taking into account the seo of a particular region.

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

dev.family team was represented by Ilya Zavilensky and Dima Kasperovich as backend developers. As a frontend developer Elena Olenikova worked. As a project manager, we had Veronika Zaikovskaya.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project hasn’t been launched yet

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

Regular meetings, prioritization of tasks, field work of manager, quick results

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

Thoughtful and consistent work of the manager, design, work of the team, realization of all our desires.

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

Much clearer technical specification and the ability to anticipate our desires before we said)))

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO of Mediacube.network — official YouTube partner network, which works with bloggers in more than 60 countries, with a total amount about 200 million people.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire dev.family?

We needed a platform that provides access to statistical data to influencers, automates financial interaction with them. It should allow to maintain document flow, control payments to managers, hunt new bloggers, manage referrals and implement various marketing tools.

What were your goals for this project?

First of all, to make a tool for managers to work with bloggers. Then to make personal accounts for influencers. To combine them into one platform and add some features.

SOLUTION

How did you select dev.family?

We chose them by the recommendation of friends and were not mistaken. From the very beginning the dev.family team proved their quality in solving small problems. After that, they were entrusted with a large project.

Describe the project in detail.

The original goal of the project was to automate the work performed by managers. It was not good to process tons of reports from Google manually. At the same time, they needed an account for bloggers, where all the statistics for the channel were displayed.

After that, they needed payments automation. In some time, the client wanted to stop using third-party services that helped influencers register in the affiliate network, and decided to create the client's own cloud service.

All together it was supposed to turn into a system where statistical and financial information of users was collected, the functions of an "electronic wallet" were implemented.

After we had automated the work of managers, we were given the task of making a system that would contain data about millions of channels in order to conduct their analytics, target advertising campaigns, and track "rising stars". A so-called mega-catalog of all YouTubers should have appeared with the ability to filter them according to different parameters and select in accordance with requests (audience, topic, geography, etc.)

What was the team composition?

The first task (creation of an account) was performed independently by one person, Vladilen.

When it became clear that the project required a dedicated team, the following guys were gathered: Nikita Tolkachev, tech lead, who set up the server architecture and thought over the overall project architecture.

Egor Nedbailo, PM, he coordinated the team, supported the backlog, prioritized tasks, and built the project roadmap. Also backend and frontend developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

base with more than 40 million channels the company has grown from scratch to an investment about $10 million more than 200 employees use this system daily and also thousands of bloggers from the affiliate program

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

They provided us with a dedicated team that only dealt with our project.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their ability to work with the giant amount of data, possibility to dive into the project and build unique custom logic.

Are there any areas for improvement?

no