IdeaSoft.io

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Executive of Mundo

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

A portal for digital payment, and digital asset holdings. Bringing web2 users the toolsets necessary to participate in the future global digital economy being built in a web3 era.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Relaunch under a new brand of existing tech
• Quick implementation of cutting edge new features
• Smooth transition onto new infrastructure

SOLUTION

How did you find IdeaSoft?

Referral

Why did you select IdeaSoft over others?

• Close to my geographic location
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from IdeaSoft were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

• product roadmap
• transition support
• project plan
• resource allocation
• cost optimisation and migration of test environent to ovh server with 75% cost reduction
• bifurcation of prod environments
• implementation of account abstraction, cross chain-swaps, pass key, localisation of another language and reskin
• relaunching the apps in IOs and play store

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• migration and cost optimisation happened nearly overnight
• first feature was implemented swiftly
• all other features are to be released on time per plan

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

• extremly helpful at the most critical and difficult period at the start of transition including reconcilation and takeover of the infrastructure
• weekly update and estimates
• not leaving behind loose ends and bringing up issues to address ahead of time
• investigating and explaning intricancies of complex issues or additional analysis

What was your primary form of communication with IdeaSoft?

• In-Person Meeting
• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

They are quite passionate about what they do, and they genuinely care. More of a partner than just a software house, at times behaving like a 4th co-founder. Definitely unmatched web3 expertise and connection and knowledge of tech landscape in their niche.

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

The more interactions with different nationalities and different styles the better it will position them to deliver outstanding products.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Project Manager of NEAR Foundation

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

We are a non-profit foundation headquartered in Switzerland that is responsible for contracting protocol maintainers, funding ecosystem development, and shepherding core governance of the Near Protocol.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Buiding NEAR Wallet – native DeFi solution for NEAR ecosystem.

SOLUTION

How did you find IdeaSoft?

Referral

Why did you select IdeaSoft over others?

• Pricing fit our budget
• Great culture fit
• Referred to me
• Company values aligned

How many teammates from IdeaSoft were assigned to this project?

6-10 Employees

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

Ideasoft was working on delivering a new and improved wallet for NEAR users: 

• Complete redesign of the wallet's interface
• Business analysis and UX research 
• Wallet creation and management features, including creating named and implicit accounts, creating wallets using a secret phrase, private key etc. 
• Account creation and management features, including account import and management, transaction signing, connecting dApps etc. 
• Managing assents in the wallet: account top-up, operations with tokens and NFTs 
• Transaction history and analytics. All of the deliverables were thoroughly and properly documented.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The deliverables mentioned were shipped on time and met the company's expectations.

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

Ideasoft management delivered the items on time and was very responsive.

What was your primary form of communication with IdeaSoft?

• Virtual Meeting
• Email or Messaging App

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

Cultural fit was very impressive. This often becomes an obstacle when a Web3 company is collaborating with a Web2 team, however with Ideasoft this wasn't an issue.

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

Nothing to add.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the CEO of N-finity

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

N-Finity is an NFT marketplace solving the key issue for NFT owners of the absence of NFTs collateralization allowing its owners to be sure that a part of invested value can be redeemed, eliminating the main concern for members of the secondary NFT market and incentivizing active trading.

Hence, N-Finity allows enjoying all the advantages of the NFT marketplaces with an additionally guaranteed prevention of losing funds.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire IdeaSoft.io to accomplish?

• Build Smart Contracts
• Front-End
• Design

SOLUTION

How did you find IdeaSoft.io?

Referral

Why did you select IdeaSoft.io over others?

High ratings, Close to my geographic location, Pricing first our budget, Great culture fit, Good value for cost, Referred to me, Company values aligned

What was the size of IdeaSoft.io’s team?

2-5 Employees

What was your primary form of communication with IdeaSoft.io?

In-Person Meeting, Virtual Meeting, Email or Messaging App

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

• NFT marketplace interface implementation;
• Connections to different types of wallet functionality;
• NFT minting establishes provable scarcity, verified ownership, and ongoing creator earnings.;
• NFT listing;
• NFT sale on auction;
• FAT mechanics implementation, redemption;
• NFT rebirth.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

• Project done in term

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

We had 4 meetings weekly for follow-up and continuous communication during the development life cycle via Google Meet.

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

Their unique expertise in a web3 domain + NFT development contracts, and terms/budget.

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

No, all good.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm an Executive of a human-centered design consultancy firm.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire IdeaSoft.io, and what were your goals?

Our product needed expertise in the field of Web 3.0 Development. It required IdeaSoft to meet a very tight deadline. The analysis and development of the project were done within a timeline of 4 months.

SOLUTION

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

We searched online and found this vendor on clutch. Their proposal was very reasonable and competitive.

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

We kicked off the project with detailed requirement gathering and analysis. Based on that we stated the highest priority items that need to be developed and tackled first. The product developed was on the Ethereum blockchain and required other technologies such as angular and C#

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

We had 2 Business analysts, 2 front end developers, 2 back end developers, a project manager and an account manager.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The product is currently in its Beta phase, but based on the UAT testing, more than 30 users have given very positive feedbacks.

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

We had 4 meetings weekly for follow up and continuous communication during the development life cycle via Slack.

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

They were very professional and they were able to steer the project in the right direction in no time.

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

We faced issues with the project estimation. There's definitely room of improvement when it comes to pricing and timeline.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the head of the cybersecurity consulting firm specializing in executive protection, insider threats and application security.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire IdeaSoft.io, and what were your goals?

Large-scale access control and pandemic introduced new requirements for enterprises, specifically related to access controls, both physical and logical security and compliance.

SOLUTION

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

The vendor was selected based on successful projects and the ability to augment the existing team and provide relevant resources at scale including competitive pricing.

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

We've designed and developed a brand new access system using AI-powered high-speed cameras equipped with body temperature scanners. As a result, we have developed workflows and technical specifications allowing up to implement a fully-managed access control system, including self serve kiosks for both contractors and visitors allowing processing of up to 25000 visitors daily.

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

There were 6 team members supported by two dedicated executives.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project specifications were delivered to the client for approval, currently pending the implementation.

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

We had weekly scrum meetings and communicated mostly online with a few face-to-face meetings with the client. We've used Jira/Confluence, email and slack. The management team met monthly to review the progress and address any issues.

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

Ease of communication and truly agile approach.

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

The quality of work was great.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CIO and also co-founder of Bochica Networks

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire IdeaSoft.io, and what were your goals?

We gathered a visionary group from Colombia for organizing our initiative for having the first Blockchain network in Colombia, based on universities nodes. We decided to go to the best on the field, Eastern European companies.

We encountered IDEASOFT as a very cost-efficient location to do our development, and bridge the opportunity of bringing EE talent to our country in the form of software. We had with IDEASOFT a turn-key solution in which they service and attention to our project went beyond expectations and care. With a proven professionalism, developers, designers and executives of IdeaSoft took our idea and transformed it into a working reality.

We still conduct business with the company and keep opening to new opportunities. It is capital for the current economy to have companies such as IDEASOFT serving the purpose and understanding business as a whole, and for the long term. Good people, empathetic business environment and full cooperation for making deals a real asset for their customers.

SOLUTION

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

We believe on having good touch with people. Ukranian youth and acumen for both technical and business performance appeared to us as a good opportunity to leverage their experience and knowedge.

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

We gathered a visionary group from Colombia for organizing our initiative for having the first Blockchain network in Colombia, based on universities nodes. They design our solution based on NEO protocol, and put on top an administration panel in order to have a permission-ed network.

After this project we decided to go for a survey app blockchain based, also fully implemented under our network that we called Bochica.

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

There were 4 or 5 developers, an external code auditing team, UX design team (2), project manager and account manager as well. Their CTO paid special attention to our project as well.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The project was executed as agreed, deliverables on time and within scope.

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

PM was very concrete and specific when it comes to deliverables. Extra requirements for additional features were attended as an extension of the project, business and technically wise.

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

The most remarkable feature of IDEASOFT is the understanding of the business they are in, including sometimes the pain that the customer suffers. They just not conduct business as usual but also walk the extra mile when it comes to satisfy the business, looking for a long term relationship with the customer.

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

We would expect the documentation of the project to be more organized.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m a COO of a software development company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire IdeaSoft.io?

We hired IdeaSoft.io for auditing smart contracts for one of our decentralized protocols. The main goal was to make sure that there are no critical errors in the contracts and they are free of security vulnerabilities.

SOLUTION

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

IdeaSoft.io is well known in the market for its deep blockchain expertise, so when we needed help with smart contracts we turned to them. Our team knew several projects implemented by the company, so we knew that IdeaSoft.io blockchain specialists have the necessary experience.

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

We needed to check the quality of the code in smart contracts, and also make sure that they are resistant to common security vulnerabilities. At the end of the audit, we received an audit report containing all the vulnerabilities. The IdeaSoft.io team also helped us fix bugs found during the audit.

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

The team consisted of a project manager and a blockchain developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

During the audit, we managed not only to identify weaknesses in smart contracts but also to fix errors that could lead to data leakage and compromise the entire system. The audit was the final step before the launch of our product, which is working well now.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The workflow and interaction process were built very competently. We kept in touch and discussed progress at regular online meetings. Zoom was the main communication tool. The team also used Jira to set goals and track progress.

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

It was nice to make sure that everything we heard about IdeaSoft.io turned out to be true. They have skillful developers and well-built customer interaction processes.

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

Nothing comes to mind.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m a Marketing Director at a marketing data integration platform. We provide solutions for aggregating and normalizing all marketing data into one visualization tool.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire IdeaSoft.io, and what were your goals?

We hired IdeaSoft developers to expand our team for creating a new analytics module for our platform. The module was supposed to provide cross-channel analytics by aggregating data across all ad platforms. IdeaSoft provided us with JavaScript and Python developer services.

SOLUTION

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

We found the company profile on Clutch and contacted IdeaSoft representatives. They quickly got back to us with an answer to the request and provided CVs for several developers. The experience of the engineers was relevant to our needs, and the communication went well. We needed to start the project as quickly as possible, and IdeaSoft worked promptly.

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

We worked on creating the back-end and front-end parts of the module, and IdeaSoft specialists joined the project at the development stage. We already had a plan and a scope of work. The team worked according to the Agile methodology, and the IdeaSoft engineers showed their best side, completing the work on time and with high quality. In 4 months of work, the team completed the module within the deadline, and we are more than happy with the result.

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

2 JavaScript developers and 1 Python developer

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

First of all, it’s a success that the team was able to create such a complex module with various integrations within the deadline. We continue to test it and prepare improvements for the future, but the solution is showing excellent results. The system provides good performance, although it needs to process a huge amount of data. This demonstrates the high professionalism of the engineers working on the project.

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

We were cooperating with a dedicated project manager who was able to solve any issues in time and respond to any questions that we had.

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

It was really nice to deal with IdeaSoft specialists, from business developers to engineers. They have well-established business processes but they are flexible enough to meet the requirements of the client's side. The fact that IdeaSoft engineers have perfectly fit into our development process proves their flexibility and high qualifications.

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

Our cooperation was successful, so I can't say anything like that.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the Head of Sales at Rozdoum, an official Atlassian Gold Solution Partner, and Atlassian Marketplace Partner.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire IdeaSoft.io, and what were your goals?

We needed a software development partner to help us with one of the company projects. Our cooperation began with the development of a mobile app supporting peer-to-peer payments. We were looking for a team with experience in creating fintech projects and blockchain-based apps, including not only the technical part but also regulatory compliance.

SOLUTION

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

One partner of mine recommended IdeaSoft, they previously worked together. He thought that this was exactly the company that could cover all the tasks of the project. And he was right. After the first call, we realized that we are dealing with real professionals who will help us make the best of the idea.

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

Now we have passed the discovery phase, approved the design, and started developing the application. We decided to build two native apps for iOS and Android. Therefore, the main technologies for us are Swift and Java. Everything is going according to plan so far.

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

2 UX/UI designers, 1 business analyst, 1 project manager, 1 QA manager, and 3 developers.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We can’t talk about measurable results since we are still in the development process. But I am glad that everything is going according to plan. The project manager keeps us up to date. The team also gave us some interesting features that we are going to implement. It's always good to work with an experienced vendor who can bring something new to your project, something that you haven't even thought about.

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

We communicate via Zoom. We have regular meetings with the development team where we discuss how the work is progressing. This is good because we can monitor the results and make operational decisions.

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

What we really like about IdeaSoft is that they always find the right specialist when the need arises. It seems they always have a solution for any of your requests. It's amazing how quickly they can build a team for a new project and get started.

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

At this stage, we are satisfied with the cooperation with IdeaSoft. You can always do something better, but they already provide a high quality of work.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work in the product IT company in the B2B segment, which offers procurement software for companies. We help companies eliminate manual work and efficiently manage purchase requests, purchase orders, approval workflow, budgets, etc. My position is Account executive, I work with potential clients, make calls every working day, and make new opportunities for selling our product.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire IdeaSoft.io, and what were your goals?

We had the idea to create a non-custodial wallet, a DeFi wallet that allows users to have complete control over their funds and store their private keys on their own. Thus, users don’t need to provide the intermediary with information about their payments. To implement this idea, we needed an experienced blockchain development team with proven experience with DeFi projects.

SOLUTION

How did you select IdeaSoft.io and what were the deciding factors?

We started looking for software vendors on various web business directories including Clutch. After examining the reviews and the company's website, we sent them a request and received a response very quickly. Then we had an introductory call where we discussed the requirements of the project. The IdeaSoft manager prepared an estimate for us which fit our budget. Professionalism in communication and reasonable price - that's what convinced us to choose IdeaSoft.

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

We started with the discovery phase to define clear requirements and the scope of work. I would like to note the high level of professionalism of the business analysis team, whose operational work allowed us to quickly move to the development phase. We also used the services of IdeaSoft designers to create the UX part of the wallet. Plus, a dedicated project manager worked with us, so we were always aware of the progress.

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

The team consisted of a project manager, business analyst, UI/UX designer, 3 developers, 1 account executive, and a QA specialist. Only 8 people.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

In general, we are satisfied with the quality of the delivered product. We were concerned about security, which is so important for any DeFi project, and the team did a great job. Now we already have the first users who are satisfied with the work with our wallet and we are collecting feedback to introduce additional features and improve our product in the future. I hope the IdeaSoft team will help us with this.

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

IdeaSoft has completed the project within the deadlines. We were warned of possible delays, but they resolved the issue. We had several weekly Zoom meetings with the team where we discussed project progress. And at any time we could communicate with the project manager who answered all questions promptly.

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

DeFi is a fairly new direction, so it was important for us to find a team with experience in blockchain development and adhere to the best security practices. And we didn’t regret that we made a choice in favor of IdeaSoft. They have really experienced developers and smart business processes. We always understood what stage of product development we were at and what to expect next. It's a pleasure to work with such a well-organized development team.

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

Nothing comes to mind. We are satisfied with the work of IdeaSoft and will continue to cooperate with them.