MaybeWorks

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a freelance designer and front-end developer

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed to create some complex, bespoke functionality for a mobile-optimised web app, using the Angular Javascript framework and PHP/MySQL. This also required knowledge around TLS, Unix and server side configuration.

SOLUTION

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

We shortlisted developers that we found and asked them questions about their knowledge and experience. Maybe Works had excellent knowledge and skills.

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

I delivered a set of HTML page templates. We also supplied a specification document to explain how things were supposed to work. After an email exchange, the brief was understood and Maybe Works did exactly what was required.

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

We worked with a project manager and a developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

After working on our project, Maybe Works improved customer experience and broadened our offering so we could give better value for money to our customers.

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

I can't fault Maybe Works for their efficiency, time-tracking and faultless service. They go above and beyond, constantly.

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

They had a can-do attitude, which is unmatched. They take time to explain things carefully and they look ahead to foresee potential issues.

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

No areas for improvement. Maybe Works are a highly skilled and resourceful team who deliver great results, on time and on budget.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO/CTO of iMatrix Systems. I am responsible for all technical aspects of our system. The system is a complete IoT platform focused on the Agriculture and Cold Chain environments

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

MaybeWorks was hired to produce the full front-end WEB interface for our IoT Platform. The WEB UI uses that API system developed to interface to the Cloud Databases.

SOLUTION

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

We used many platforms to find the right candidate and reviewed prior work. This was a very large and detailed work effort

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

The scope of work is too large to cover in a couple of sentences but includes dynamic multilevel menus, forms with validation, interactive displays and graphs with dynamic scaling drawing from dynamic data coming from the captured TSD and Events from various sensors connected to the network.

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

Full Stack developers were used and they were quickly able to understand our detailed specification documents. For reference the specification document exceeds 500 pages.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We went from 0 to a completed product, This was a massive undertaking.

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

Weekly reviews and daily discussions along with management using JIRA and then Click up. Slack was used for quick issues discussions

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

They were professional and communicative. They were reliable also and provided good quality work.

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

All progressed as expected

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm starting a SaaS Product, which thousands of people in Germany will use in web as well as on mobile devices.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We provided MaybeWorks a design of our web app and the goal was to build the front end as well as the backend and a stripe checkout for customers. Everyone at MaybeWorks was caring and always strived to please their customer.  So they were patient with me when screens needed to be (re)designed after project start.

At the end I saw the our pricing models being not a fit for my customers, so we decided to drop that task. I am thankful for that, because MaybeWorks also had my budget in mind.

SOLUTION

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

I was looking for a professional React and full stack developer with 5 years of experience, who would also have experience with our architecture. I found MaybeWorks on a hiring platform and contacted them. Afterwards they presented me the best fit of a developer in their company. In deed, it was a perfect fit.

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

I needed MaybeWorks for the web app to deliver authentication, and features like event & contact management, filters and a collaboration feature for our customers, who are working together on their project in our product. It needed to be done with NodeJS, React, TypeScript, MongoDB, Jest for unit tests, i18next for translations, SendGrid for E-Mails, GitHub for version control and a few more.

After kickstart, the developer of MaybeWorks introduced some great resources and libraries, which are a huge benefit to our project.

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

After having contact with the sales department, the whole project was managed by a project manager and a full stack developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The communication on the go was brilliant. The app works great. The code is understandable.

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

We used Slack for quick communications between our Google Meet calls every Monday and Thursday. With any question regarding the project on management level, I was free to contact the project manager and always got a kind and immediate answer. The same applied to the development level.

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

MaybeWorks delivered what they were hired for. Also bugs were fixed in minutes.

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

At project start I got a very detailed overview of how long the project would take and what the estimations were. I liked it but we all knew that my budget was not big enough for their estimation. The encouragement then was that we would be quicker than the estimation. Now we came out a few weeks later and some grands over budget.

In my situation with a small budget, it hurts a little. But! I got a professional, who knew what to do. The communication was great and I have a product that works and will be loved by thousands.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Chief Technical Officer, CTO at PitchHub. I am responsible for all of the product design and development

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We hired two developers for the purpose of developing a React front end and a PHP backend. The goals were ongoing in the sense that this is a venture funded company with a long product roadmap.

SOLUTION

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

I looked at examples of previous front end implementation and was attracted to the clean implementation & work history of one of the developers. Finding a competitive price was also a significant consideration.

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

Over 2 years:

1. We first created a prototype of the web site based on a React theme package--we were essentially going to build the app from scratch -
2. I brought in a UX/UI designer to design the screens -- lists, detail screens, dashboard, login, etc
3. MaybeWorks implemented the front end design at first.
4. Later in 2020 I also added an engineer to work on the full stack with an emphasis on the backend - We used Jira to organize our work and communicated daily on Slack - Front end was React - Backed is PHP - Cloud services on AWS
5. The more challenging parts of our product involved creating a web-app teleprompter + audio & video recording & cloud upload

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

We had:

• two engineers
• one front end
• one full stack with an emphasis on the back end

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

None at this time. We built the product from scratch so there was not a "relative performance" measurement.

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

- All work was handled in Jira, design documents, and Slack--we did not need to have any periodic conference calls - Work was always done in a timely & high quality manner. I emphasized quality over a deterministic scheduled - The developers who I worked with had great talent and interest in crafting a high quality product

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

I came from a high-meeting corporate company before. I was surprised at how productive the developers were without having meetings.

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

For myself, the main drawback was working from 9 timezones away, so we only had 1 hour of overlap in the morning, in case something needed to be communicated in real time.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m a project manager of a trading platform.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with MaybeWorks?

Our old site was originally built by another provider, but the quality wasn’t good. So, we needed someone to rebuild it.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

We handed MaybeWorks the code, which had a lot of issues. They had to learn it, refractor it, and then create new features for our custom website. They’re using Angular 9 for the frontend and Node.js and MySQL for the backend.

What is the team composition?

Team includes — two QA specialists, three frontend developers, one backend developer, an HTML person, a designer, and a DevOps person.

How did you come to work with MaybeWorks?

We looked at a lot of candidates, but it was important to me to have someone who follows my requests, participates in discussions, and could provide ideas. After I interviewed MaybeWorks, I found that they were the best fit for our project.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in August 2021, and our engagement is still ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

So far, everything looks good — they’ve built some pretty complicated features for our website, and I really enjoy working with their team. It’s really hard to find reliable developers these days, but I’m glad we found them and decided to work with them; I think we can work together successfully for a long time.

How did MaybeWorks perform from a project management standpoint?

They’ve met most of the set deadlines. Whenever something happens, they update me and we discuss the new changes. We use Asana for tracking tasks and Skype and email for communication.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I work closely with one person from their team — he’s a great and reliable developer and has good potential for big projects. We need more time to see how he does on complicated tasks, but so far, he’s doing a good job of following my requests and providing helpful ideas.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I would like to see people be more involved into process of generating ideas, solutions and improvements.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

I don’t have any advice.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a data-driven company that delivers CRM systems for startups with a large quantity of data to process.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Build a CRM system from scratch and building a database in mongo. The system had to be able to rank " leads and files' based on scores that could change any minute by multiple users simultaneously. The platform had to be stable so up to 20 users could use it on a daily basis. Security and user roles were important business recruitments.

SOLUTION

How did you select MaybeWorks and what were the deciding factors?

The level of IT knowledge and the easy way of communicating made us go for maybework. Also, the people that work there are highly punctual and take a lot of ownership of solving problems.

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

We used the MERN stack, the project is divided into several core functionalities. A relational database with the ability to make complex queries and also displaying them within the CRM system. A lead ranking system that changes numerous times during the day based on the input of the users.

The system had to have an almost flawless uptime during business hours because we need to develop features on the fly. Also, need the flexibility to solve problems when the business units ran into blockades so lots of last-minute adjustments.

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

We had Vlad for business matters very nice and communicative guy that never failed to have an open mindset. We had Sergey as our project manager. Every day he sends us a summary of the work done and what they will work on the next day.

And Alice, our developer, was an absolute pleasure to work with. She is one of the few developers we worked with within our companies history that always approached a problem with business logic in mind. On numerous occasions, she solved a problem and explained what she did!

It is also very refreshing that the organization is honest about one developer's limitation and always told us that if something got complicated, they need to set up an internal meeting with senior developers to solve the problem.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Over 16.000 files were indexed. More than 1 million objects were imported and organized. 12 users are currently working in a stable CRM on a daily basis.

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

We worked in slack and asana to manage all coms. We used facetime, slack call en skype to set up calls. They are not native English speakers but fluent. We had NO major miscommunication which in my experience on a large project happens all the time.

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

The number of times they reassured us when the project ran into complications. They took over an existing codebase within 2 weeks. Code quality is good.

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

The only thing I can come up with is that there was no daily summary of work done during the beginning of the project. Sergey was quick to change this and made sure we had a daily summary ever since.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CBDM at Qream Design Agency

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire MaybeWorks?

One of our clients needed to have his web application renovated and some parts redeveloped. We were to craft designs and branding. Still, we needed a reliable Full-Stack Web Development team to help our client launch the platform.

What were your goals for this project?

To implement a number of features and the design into a comprehensive web development solution.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We made research on Web Development Agencies in Ukraine, experienced in JavaScript full-stack development and have a successful SaaS experience. After the first conversation, we understood that we are on the same page with the vendor.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

MaybeWorks provided us with a well-seasoned Project Manager, who took his time talking to the client and created a detailed specification together with him. Afterwards, they spent little time finding a suitable team within their in-house developers and jumped on board pretty fast.

What was the team composition?

We were given a team of two Full-Stack developers and a Project Manager, who impacted the project a lot. Their outstanding CTO Serhii was taking part in all the technical discussions and paid close attention to our project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

It is obvious. Our client needed development come-up. It was tough to find a team that can quickly jump on an existing codebase and brings a difference. The project was successfully launched within timeframes given by MaybeWorks.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

The dedicated project manager was brilliant. As I’ve previously mentioned, he was working closely with the client. Moreover, he had stunning English, so nothing slipped out from him. His way to manage the team was very productive and he successfully delivered his piece of work.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I would mention several things that impressed me a lot:

• Technical expertise and savviness of the whole team
• Project Manager, Developers, CTO
• Staying in touch. They were always answering quickly, giving updates on time. It seems to be a regular thing, still, it is rare nowadays.
• The team skill to jump into an existing codebase and work fast, being productive in refactoring existing code and implementing new features.

Incredible!

Are there any areas for improvement?

There is always some space for improvement, still, MaybeWorks is going towards it. They are on the right way I am sure. I highly recommend MaybeWorks if you are looking for a reliable Web Development provider.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the owner of a company that created a WordPress plug in. It’s a SaaS for creating and hosting webinars in WordPress sites.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire MaybeWorks?

We needed development services for our core WordPress plugin and support web services for streaming audio and video feeds to attendees.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to create a hosted version of our webinar platform that allows users to host webinars using our servers instead of relying on third-party providers.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

I renewed several potential agencies, but it was obvious that Evgeny (Full Stack Developer, MaybeWorks) had great communication skills and understood what I was trying to achieve.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

They designed and developed the front- and backend of our hosted platform using React Redux and Node.js respectively. The frontend features commutation components to interact with the backend, while the backend handles everything from authentication and real-time chat to re-distributing media streams to webinar attendees.

What was the team composition?

Evgeny was the only developer involved in the project.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

We have a large number of existing customers on the wait list eager to start using the platform.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

I assigned tasks to Evgeny, and he took care of implementation.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They paid attention to detail and communicated well.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No, nothing comes to mind.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Software Engineer of Dinode.

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Build a low-code platform targeted at enterprise companies.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Have an engineer be a part of the team

SOLUTION

How did you find MaybeWorks?

Online Search

Why did you select MaybeWorks over others?

Other

How many teammates from MaybeWorks were assigned to this project?

1 Employee

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

MaybeWorks provided an engineer to work and be an important part of the team.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Complete tasks

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

Maybeworks were very professional, and everything was delivered on time and as expected.

What was your primary form of communication with MaybeWorks?

Virtual Meeting

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

The software engineer they assigned us was amazing.

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

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Technical Director of Headjack

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Content management and app creation for VR video apps

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

• Develop entire web platform

SOLUTION

How did you find MaybeWorks?

Online Search

Why did you select MaybeWorks over others?

• High ratings
• Pricing fit our budget

How many teammates from MaybeWorks were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

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

The scope included building the PHP backend, as well as an Angular based UI for our VR app creation CMS. The system also needed to be hooked up to several external systems, like Google BigQuery, AWS S3, Zencoder, and Chargebee.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The outcome was a successfully working web application that processed a tremendous amount of user-uploaded video content, and was able to create apps for numerous VR headsets.

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

MaybeWorks has a can-do attitude, and they always delivered on time. It was great to work with them.

What was your primary form of communication with MaybeWorks?

Email or Messaging App

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

The speed with which they were able to deliver, and how little guidance they needed to complete a task.

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

Not in my opinion.