Geniusee

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the VP of Engineering of an event ticketing platform

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Create a fair marketplace for fans for live events

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Create a mobile app to smoothen the ticket purchase and access experience for live events across the globe

SOLUTION

How did you find Geniusee?

• Referral
• Other

Why did you select Geniusee over others?

• Great culture fit
• Company values aligned

What was the size of Geniusee’s team?

2-5 Employees

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

Create a ReactNative mobile app to work on both iOS and Android devices. The app needed to work offline as well and allow for background syncing of data.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Features delivered
• Defect ratio

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

Their approach to project management was to always try to improve efficiency to secure the company's goals. They were very receptive to feedback,

What was your primary form of communication with Geniusee?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email
• Messaging App

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

Good caliber of team members all around, highly collaborative and following a high standard of work.

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

Pricing is a bit high for companies looking to outsource work to reduce their expenditure.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm the CEO and founder of a startup company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Geniusee?

I needed people with experience to show me the right path forward in building our app's UI/UX design. I had a lot of ideas, but I needed to have them all organized more tangibly so I could see the whole project and the different things I had to address in terms of technology.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

My startup is a social media organization where people can assign tasks to each other — it's like an organization app between different parties.

Geniusee helped me with the app's UI/UX design. We had a clickable prototype made with Figma, and they continued with the text areas design and all the logic page-by-page of how the mobile application would look. Also, they created a map on Miro to show the platform's look, helped me define user personas, and went into depth with the whole process — they covered a lot of bases.

In addition to that, their team provided me with reports on what they would require for the technology, the time they needed to deliver, and how to assign different people to different tasks.

What is the team composition?

I worked with 4–5 members of their team, including a designer, a business analyst, a tech lead focused on the platform's infrastructure, and a project lead who organized everything.

How did you come to work with Geniusee?

I found Geniusee at a tech event in Ukraine, and I liked their website, which was nicely done. I felt that they had the potential to help me build something nice too. Even at the beginning of the war, they were still operational. They looked at the project and set up a team to help me.

How much have you invested in them?

We spent around $12,000 with them.

What is the status of this engagement?

I worked with them from December 2021–April 2022.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Everything was very professional. Their team was very conservative, which was good because I'm very creative and was trying to go in many directions. Overall, we had a great partnership where they committed to getting the work done.

How did Geniusee perform from a project management standpoint?

They stuck to the schedule and budget. They did have a three-day lag, but that was due to the Russian Invasion — after that, they were back on track and delivered on time. Also, I kept asking for a lot of design changes, and they didn't complain at all — they wanted to make something nice for me and helped me all along the way.

Regarding tools, we used Slack and WhatsApp for communication.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They went all the way to get things done fully with no crumbs left behind. They were very professional and ensured to do everything properly.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I don't think there's anything they can improve on. Whenever I had an issue, they took care of it. Also, Geniusee's team was great at communication; as long as we had that, problems didn't stay problems for long.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Communication is the biggest thing; my project is very dear to me, and I didn't expect them to do any guesswork. I told Geniusee's team what I needed, and they brought their expertise to the table to bring it to reality. If you know what you want, they will complete everything you need all the way through.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CTO of a retail technology company that is aiming to modernize the apparel space.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We wanted to improve our ability to work with retails that already use Andriod in-house VS iOS.

SOLUTION

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

We looked into multiple companies primarily based on references. We interviewed Geniusee and were impressed by the applications they had developed in the past.

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

We worked with Geniusee to help us bring all the functionality we had in our existing iOS applications to Andriod.

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

We worked with a Development lead, project manager, designer and developer that was working on our app.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We were able to get an MVP up for our first application within the first month and we built up from there to continue to add new features.

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

We primarily communicated through slack with Adhoc meetings when need. ie design.

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

I liked that Geniusee handled every aspect of the app's development. From idea to design to development.

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

Would like to have a touch-based more often with the team lead.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Product Director overseeing development of the Meta platform, integrations, data migrations etc.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Geniusee?

We hired Nazariy to build an integration between the Rightsline Rights management platform and Meta.

What were your goals for this project?

Consolidated integration between the platforms

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We were contacted by a recruitment platform called TopDev.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Developments resources.

What was the team composition?

3 Developers plus Nazariy and myself.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

Nazariys has worked well to build the integration essentially himself and has now committed to working in the Meta core team and has adapted well.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The project was managed through JIRA tickets, moving through the standard development pipeline.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their responsiveness and talent matching stood out.

Are there any areas for improvement?

There is very little they could improve. Potentially taking more ownership of the release testing cycle.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Product Manager

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Geniusee?

Build an AWS lambda architecture connecting our ERM, CMS, Digital Freight Forwarder and Delivery Comms Platform.

What were your goals for this project?

Serverless, easily maintainable architecture.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

Found on Youteam

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

Development work Documentation Dev-ops support

What was the team composition?

One PHP developer with some additional support from a dev-ops on one occasion

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?

Enabled the use of a new warehouse and delivery partners cutting costs

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

Communication through Slack and Jira

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their flexibility was impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement?

More timely communication