MetaLamp

Please describe your company and your position there.

whatz.watch is a service that helps people to find a movie for home watching. Service forms a list of films you would like to watch based on your likes and dislikes. whatz.watch also provides infrastructure for creating your own playlists with films and sharing them with your friends or service users.

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

I was searching for a team to implement my idea of web service that already had a design and a backend.

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

I've reached MetaLamp team out by the recommendation of my colleague, who also worked with the guys before. Deciding factors for me were the cost of working hour and the flexibility of the team.

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

We started to work from the scratch. In two month we realized the first version of service to production. Now we are working on new features. We collaborate for 10 month and I hope we will continue. The web-site consists of login, on-boarding and main pages, user profile, and pages with film's and playlist's description. The technologies are Typescript, React, Next.js

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

Now the main team consist of 2 people: the project manager and the developer. But I know MetaLamp can expand the team if it's needed.

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

The main outcomes are the working software and customer's satisfaction. We now have them both.

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

We have a lot of communication with the manager and the developer. Manager helps me to solve any kind of problems and to find the answers for my questions. I always know about the current state of project and we have regular meetings, where we analyze the work that was done and think over the plan of future work.

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

MetaLamp team produces high-quality services and clean codes. I also appreciate their flexibility and optimism.

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

We collaborate for 10 month and I hope we will continue.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm CEO of RocketCompute, SaaS platform that reduces cloud bills for computational heavy workloads up to 80% by ML-assisted performance bottlenecks detection and automated workload benchmarking.

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

Frontend development. Goals: support and development of our control panel.

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

Recommendations from other clients I knew. We did several small projects together, built good relationships and work together since then.

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

We work in short sprints. We define sprint objectives based on the development of our core tech and conversations with customers, then communicate objectives to MetaLamp team, scope the sprint, define resources and deliverables and then do the work. Pretty typical stuff.

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

up to 3: mid devs, junior devs, UX/UI ppl

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

Overall experience is great, MetaLamp team is responsive to our deadlines and can scale up and down based on them. We always hit the goals we define, so nothing to complain about.

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

We communicate through messengers (like telegram). Again, MetaLamp are pretty flexible and adjusted to our management style.

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

Quick and flexible - they are the best of what I've seen at their price point.

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

Nothing comes to mind except expanding the scope of their tech skills. Them being able to solve more advanced dev tasks would give us more flexibility in terms of what we can outsource.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Nasport is a sport service that helps people to connect with each other. Service includes various sport types and allow people to track their history of matches.

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

MetaLamp helped in software development for Nasport. Developers and managers of MetaLamp created Nasport by proposed design.

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

The vendor was selected among others based on the following reasons:

1.  communication with the client, especially first calls
2.  precise and detailed estimations
3.  named risks and concerns they might face during the actual development
4.  proposed a strategy for the development process

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

Scope of work: Nasport's work consists of a user profile, settings, list of matches, clubs, and chat functionality. Key deliverables: working software and code technologies used: React

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

2: project manager and developer - main team

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

For me, the most measurable outcome is working software.

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

MetaLamp has a very good client-oriented approach. Based on my experience I would say that company is very flexible: MetaLamp team use meetings, online chat, emails and etc. based on client priorities and needs. So as a client I always know:

1. what is the state of the project
2. when and how I can ask for change requests or changes in design
3. whom to reach and by what question Upon the start of our collaboration I was provided with appropriate and quite precise estimations. By the time I can see that timelines and milestones were reached and the project is on track
4. Metalamp management team always makes sure their customers are aware of what's going on with development progress.

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

People. I liked our collaboration in many ways: MetaLamp people are nice and open and easy to talk to. They are professionals in software development. They dig deep into the business idea of each project and suggest interesting solutions. Thanks to their helpful ideas we've improved UX inside Nasport.

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

Dear MetaLamp, you've done awesome work and I can just wish you can expand :)

Please describe your company and your position there.

Founder & CEO at DataLight

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

Development of the entire Frontend for the MVP of a cryptocurrency data analytics and visualization service. Building a dashboard of widgets and a configurator for their customization

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

We offered affordable rates and quickly assembled a team

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

In 2 months we have implemented a dashboard with widgets and a popup with customizing widgets. Then there was a redesign, the addition of other pages, and made a separate page called configurator from a popup with a widget setting, migrating charts from recharts to highcharts Technologies React, Typescript, Redux / Redux-sagas, Recharts, Highcharts

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

4 frontend developers and 1 manager

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

In 2 months we launched mvp and were able to show potential investors

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

The manager was always in touch, helped to solve all the problems that arose. Team communication was in slack, tasks were conducted in yandex tracker.

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

Their flexibility and high quality of work were impressive.

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

Everything is awesome

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm CTO of a startup company

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

We need to create additional gaming service for our website

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

Speed, availability and friends recommendation

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

Our stack is React/Redux/Typescript, guys were able to adjust to our needs.

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

3 ppls, 2 developers and pm

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

We were satisfied with the result, all the team was impressed with the speed and quality of the code and UI.

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

We use telegram and GitHub issues to manage project flow, all management was done by the Metalamps' PM

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

The guys showed a high quality of work. All tasks were done in time and met the estimations.

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

nothing