An expert team to develop great products
MindK is a software development and IT consulting company that helps businesses build software products, automate business processes, modernize technology and infrastructure.
Our company is a multi-cultured team with headquarters in the USA (California) and employees across Central and Eastern Europe (the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, and others). We use modern technology and accumulated experience in project delivery to help you with technology-transformation initiatives.
What our team can do for you:
- Product development: we help you develop PoC or MVP and bring a winning product to the market through an iterative development cycle.
- Software re-engineering: we rebuild, refactor, or move your application to the cloud when it no longer meets your business requirements.
- IT consulting: we access your business challenges and help you transform your operations using cloud and technology.
- Team augmentation: we provide highly skilled engineers to augment your in-house capabilities.
Among the industries we excel in are:
- Education
- Healthcare
- Recruitment and HR
- Construction and Property Management
- Financial Services
- Advertising technology
What makes us a perfect technology partner:
- We build trust and long-term partnerships. 96% of our clients recommend us to their network.
- We are the one-stop development team. We have experts and knowledge across all stages of the product development process.
- 85% of the company – Senior and Middle developers: We invest in attracting and growing up strong Middle and Senior engineers thanks to a strong hiring process and personal development plans.
- We are agile. We implement Agile practices to deliver products on time and within budget.
- We take on responsibility and manage risks: We manage scope delivery, provide project health monitoring, and control any aspect of the project at any point in time.
Visit mindk.com to learn more about our work or just drop us a line at hello@mindk.com.
headquarters
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Střížkovská 718/32Prague 180 00Czech Republic
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Petra Sahaidachnoho St, 11Kyiv 04070Ukraine
Platform Development for Online Community Forum
the project
"I was impressed with how fast MindK was able to deliver the project and their expertise."
the reviewer
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The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I'm the co-founder of Levels.fyi. We help hundreds of thousands of professionals each month with their careers.
For what projects/services did your company hire MindK, and what were your goals?
We hired MindK to build us a community forum where our users could interact with each other. It is also part of our strategy to attract more users with UGC.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
We searched for many vendors online and after interviewing them, it was clear MindK had the necessary skills and competence to deliver our project.
Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.
We have designs / mockups in place and MindK was responsible for implementing the project end to end. We would have weekly meetings with the MindK project manager along with more frequent updates daily via Slack chat. The community was built in Next.js (technology based on React.js).
How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
We worked with about 3 people primarily on MindK side. A project manager and two developers.
Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?
Project was delivered on time and all deliverables were met. The team went above and beyond to ensure the product is something consumers would love. MindK goes beyond the bare minimum of delivering a project, they actively work with you to ensure the project is the best work it can possibly be. I see MindK more as a partner rather than a vendor. They've actively improved our product by testing it for themselves and contributing valuable feedback from the perspective of our future users.
Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.
Excellent communication and management throughout. There were times where we forgot to include things in the specs and the Project manager would suggest or point out things that were missing. The team is highly detail-oriented and top-notch.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
I was impressed with how fast MindK was able to deliver the project and their expertise. They've clearly done many many projects and have the expertise to know what needs to go into a project even if we don't cover it in the specs. The project manager was excellent to work with and managed the project from start to finish without any issues.
The quality of work and the interactions with the team felt akin to anyone that I've worked within the Bay Area in technology. MindK's expertise is for real and the bar is high. This isn't your typical outsourcing shop, MindK has top-notch engineers and PMs.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
None.
Focus
Portfolio
Harrison Publishing House, CEMAsys, 3.Reputation - #1 cloud-based online reputation management platform, and here are more.
Bridge | SaaS platform for global hiring
Industry: Recruitment
Location: USA
Overview
Bridge is a US-based company that provides a full cycle of services for opening remote R&D offices. The platform makes the hiring process 100% transparent and allows companies to control their spending and manage the office remotely.
Services: Business analysis, UI/UX design, Front-end & Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Automated testing
Value delivered: 3 months to build the system from the ground up
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/bridge/
AIM Analytics | Intelligent marketing attribution platform
Industry: Advertising
Location: USA
Overview:
A feature-rich internal tool for one of the fastest-growing digital agencies in the US. It allows running and managing thousands of TV and radio ad campaigns, processing large amounts of data, as well as tracking and analyzing all marketing channels in a heartbeat.
Services: Business Analysis, Prototyping and UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: An ad order is placed with a few clicks for 12K+ radio stations
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/converze/
Melody | Mobile app for music creators
Industry: Music production
Location: USA
Overview:
Melody is a robust mobile application for music creators. It performs great on various devices, even without WiFi or mobile internet. Users can cycle through sounds from wherever they are, find them faster and easier while maintaining a high level of enthusiasm.
Services: Discovery phase, Front-end and back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: MindK managed to create a basic version of the application in a short period of time that helped the client to enroll further investments in the product.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/melody/
Client’s review: https://clutch.co/profile/mindk#review-1593351
CEMAsys | SaaS Platform for Sustainability Management
Industry: Environmental sustainability consulting
Location: Norway
Overview:
CEMAsys is a cloud-based sustainability reporting tool that allows companies to collect, measure, store, and manage all corporate sustainability data within one single platform.
Services: Discovery phase, Prototyping, UI/UX design, Web application development, DevOps, Quality assurance, maintenance
Value delivered: 250+ midsize and large companies like H&M, Orkla, Konika Minolta, Electrolux, Telia, and DNB have chosen CEMAsys as their sustainability management tool.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/cemasys/
NKR | Competency Certificates in a Pocket
Industry: Education
Location: Norway
Overview:
Norsk Kompetanseregister (NKR) is one of Norway's leading issuers of competency certificates. MindK built a cross-platform mobile app for certificate holders giving them the ability to control their certificates from a smartphone. Users can easily access their diplomas in a digitized format, edit them or share them with employers.
Services: Business Analysis, Prototyping and UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The system now handles 6500+ professional certificates
Innmeldt | SaaS platform for insurance ans pension consulting
Industry: HR Consulting
Location: Norway
Overview:
A robust solution for leading insurance and pension consultants in Norway. The system has simplified consulting for managers as all the necessary information is now accessible from one system. Moreover, Norwegian workers can calculate their pensions by entering a couple of lines of data.
Services: Discovery phase, Business Analysis, UI/UX design, Front-end and Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The platform became a unique advantage in the market, helped our client to expand the client base and sign up contracts with large companies like ABB, Veidekke, NITO, etc.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/innmeldt/
JUVO | iOS and Android Apps for Local Communities
Industry: Association management
Location: Norway
Overview:
Juvo is a perfect tool for community owners, who want to unite members and immerse them in local community life in the most safe and secure way possible.
Services: Discovery phase, API development, Native iOS and Android app development, DevOps, Quality assurance
Value delivered: The Juvo app has been met with success by 20+ communities in Norway.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/juvo/
CHOO | SaaS Platform for Community and Association Management
Industry: Association management
Location: Norway
Overview:
CHOO is a cloud-based SaaS member management system tailored specifically for the needs of communities and associations, be it a health association, a political party or a business organization.
Services: Business analysis, UI/UX design, Project management Front-end development, Back-end development, API development, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Automated testing
Value delivered: Now the system is used by 15+ organizations with thousands of users. Our collaborative work with a client resulted in 40K+ new users a year, 600+ successfully organized offline events, and 1M+ invoices generated within the platform.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/choo/
Reputation.com | Promo Website for Digital Marketing Tool
Industry: Marketing SaaS
Location: USA
Overview:
Reputation helps large multi-location businesses improve their public image. Their web portal represents a #1 cloud-based online reputation management platform and helps companies all over the world can discover issues with their public image and take action.
Services: Front-end and Back-end development, Project management, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The promo web portal now generates 840K+ visitors per month most of which are successfully converted into product users
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/reputation/
PecoInspx | Promo Website for X-Ray Inspection Company
Industry: Machinery
Location: USA
Overview:
PecoInspX is a leading provider of Х-ray inspection systems. We build a promotional website that explains the benefits of the client’s products, attract quality leads, and serve as the entry point to a more personalized selling funnel.
Services: Front-end and Back-end development, Project management, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The web portal has boosted the company’s marketing efforts and shortened the way from a lead to a prospect - today 15 countries represent returning site visitors
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/peco-inspx/
Yahad | Custom Web Portal for Youth Programs
Industry: Education
Location: Israel
Overview:
A youth educational platform that revives Jewish traditions by means of travel and training programs. The web portal unites the variety of programs Yahad offers, helps to promote new programs, acquire participants, and collect and analyze important data.
Value delivered: The system allowed our clients to attract and manage more than 15,000 participants. Using the online constructor, admins can generate a custom registration form for a new program in under 60 seconds and make it available for visitors.
CINX | SaaS Platform for construction industry
Industry: Construction
Location: USA
Overview:
CINX is a complex, feature-rich platform that makes it easy for companies to synchronize internal departments, systems, products, as well as project participants within an all-in-one solution. The system has more than 20 integrations, convenient company profiles, private catalogs, custom dashboards, etc.
Services: Business Analysis, UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Test Automation
Value delivered: Today CINX is widely used by contractors, manufacturers, and vendors in the USA. It has 3M+mechanical items and extended content within a thorough database
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/cinx/
Client’s review: https://clutch.co/profile/mindk#review-305451
Business Perspectives | An E-commerce Platform for Scientific Community
Industry: Academic publishing
Location: Ukraine
Overview:
Business Perspectives is a publishing house specializing in academic writing. We’ve transformed complex catalogs of journals and articles into a powerful E-commerce system that makes reading and purchasing scientific journals a 100% digital experience.
Services: Discovery phase, Business Analysis, Front-end and Back-end development, Project management, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The system now generates 21K+ monthly users, more than 450 thousand publications have been downloaded and over 5 thousand authors from 80 countries published thanks to the platform.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/business-perspectives/
Client’s review: https://clutch.co/profile/mindk#review-314007
Devotion | Get a Custom-Made Wedding Dress in Just Few Clicks
Industry: E-commerce
Location: Czech Republic
Overview:
A unique marketplace connecting European designers, manufacturers, and customers. With a convenient dress constructor, handy search, and live chat support, anyone can get a tailor-made dress through this on-line shopping experience.
Services: Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The system offers exceptional value to its users: an individual approach and boutique experience, while shopping online. Now 60+ countries represent satisfied customers.
WannaBe.Guru | A Chat Bot for Education
Industry: Education
Location: Ukraine
Overview:
An educational chatbot empowered by machine learning. Its goal is to help people jump-start their career in web development and make studying more interactive and fun.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/wannabeguru/
ICE | Subscription-Based Energy Monitoring System
Industry: Energy audit
Location: Ukraine
Overview:
Information Energy Monitoring System (ICE) is a robust SaaS solution that helps consumers to reduce energy spending via timely and accurate reporting. It allows simultaneous collective work of suppliers, consumers, and management of local and state executive government. Now it takes only 5-10 minutes of a facility manager’s time for daily energy monitoring in ICE.
Services: Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance, API development
Value delivered: The system helps local governments to improve energy efficiency and optimize spending via timely and accurate reporting. Thus, with ICE, one of the regions alone saves over $600,000 a year.
Jobbdirecte.no | Norway's #1 Job Portal and Recruitment Tool
Industry: Recruitment
Location: Norway
Overview:
Jobbdirecte.no is a robust web portal aimed at advancing functionality for recruitment agencies and employers. It has a high ease of use and provides the ability to digitize the entire recruitment process.
Value delivered: Jobbdirekte.no has grown from a job search site into one of Norway's largest job portals and an advanced recruitment tool. Today it counts 125k+ monthly active users, which means that in one year, the portal is visited by 25% of the country's population.
AGEO | E-commerce plaform for household products
Industry: E-commerce
Location: Czech Republic
Overview:
E-AGEO.cz is a Czech retailer specializing in beauty, health care, and household products. The e-commerce platform we’ve built for this client provides a smooth buyer’s journey from both desktop and mobile, accompanied by secure payments and automatic product updates.
Services: Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: With over 150 000 monthly visits, Ageo.cz has become the largest online drugstore and household product seller in the Czech market. Offering more than 35 000 products, it works directly with the world’s leading manufacturers from Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and Switzerland.
MySelection | A Digital House and Interior Constructor
Industry: Construction
Location: Norway
Overview:
A SaaS platform built for a group of construction companies, that allows house buyers to virtually gather and order the house of their dreams: from the foundation and walls to furniture and decorations. It also streamlines the process of managing orders for partners and suppliers.
Services: Prototyping and UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance, Automated testing
Value delivered: After the platform prototype was presented to the company’s partners, almost 80% of them voted to have this solution as soon as it ships. Today the system possesses a huge competitive advantage and helps expand its client base and increase revenue.
GYE | Web App for People Struggling with Addictions
Industry: Non-profit
Location: Israel
Overview:
A unique web portal for people from the Jewish community struggling with destructive addictions. This non-profit project provides a set of tools and programs that have helped thousands of people to maintain moral purity
Value delivered: With 95K+ monthly visitors, the portal has more than 10,000 active members. Each year, the web portal helps the organization run a fundraising campaign to help recovering addicts.
KNBF | A Custom Web Portal which Connects Boat Clubs, Crews and Owners
Industry: Association management
Location: Norway
Overview:
A web application built to connect Norwegian owners of pleasure boats and boating clubs. It covers everything from registering new members to delivering actionable data to club admins and provides special benefits for boat owners.
Services: Business Analysis, Prototyping and UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The solution now boasts 47000+ active members in 370 local boat unions. It has simplified boat inspections, allowed club members to see up-to-date info, and the association to facilitate member engagement.
Quality Norway | A Course and Conference Management System
Industry: Education
Location: Norway
Overview:
A member management system for a leading Norwegian courses and conferences provider. It enables the company to manage training attendees across the country, promote the courses via newsletters, invoice companies or individuals, and get financial reports — all in one place.
Services: Business Analysis, Prototyping, and UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: By reducing manual processes, the company started to grow its bottom line faster. The system now handles over 170 courses annually, but the workload doesn’t affect customer service anymore.
Home&Beauty | Getting Drugstore Goods Delivered to Your Home
Industry: E-commerce
Location: Czech Republic
Overview:
It is a powerful online solution that will allow customers from different countries to purchase beauty, health care, and household products directly from manufacturers in a couple of clicks. The trade channel involves everything from a smooth user experience to secure payments.
Services: Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: The online platform is visited by clients from at least 5 European countries a day. It is offering more than 45 000 products directly from the world’s leading manufacturers, which makes it a reliable platform for both customers and suppliers.
UPP | Web Portal Builder for Real Estate Industry
Industry: Construction
Location: Norway
Overview:
Unified Partner Portals (UPP) allows the partners of our client to build a professional web portal in less than an hour. The platform enables them to not only get a website fast but also to keep brand consistency and provide customers with relevant product catalogs due to centralized content curation.
Services: Business Analysis, Prototyping and UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: Implementation of the system helped our client grow faster, providing extra-value both to its partners and customers.
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Lynechat | Progressive Web Application for real estate
Industry: Real estate
Location: USA
Overview:
The web application allows quick and easy feedback between real estate agents and potential buyers. For each real estate offering, the app generates a separate chat with a unique link that can be posted anywhere on the web.
Services: Back-end and front- end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: Starting with just an idea, we finished the basic version of the tool in 3 months. It’s been well-received by investors and customers and helped our client to grow their customer base.
Manuscript | Publishing Workflows fully Digitized
Industry: Digital media
Location: Ukraine
Overview:
A science work publishing process required a series of different manual actions and tons of emails from authors, reviewers, and publishers. What we did was automate and digitize those actions within a custom web system, resulting in a much faster, smoother, and more interactive workflow.
Services: Discovery phase, Business Analysis, UI/UX design, Front-end development, Back-end development, DevOps, Quality Assurance
Value delivered: A feature-rich administrative system completely changed the way our client used to work — the whole publishing and review experience is now 100% digital, presenting a faster and more interactive workflow. More than 2,000 manuscripts were submitted by contributors from 80 countries since its launch.
Full case study: https://www.mindk.com/work/manuscript/
Reviews
the project
WordPress Template for Golf Marketing Agency
“I was impressed with their efficiency, attention to detail, and willingness to help.”
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I work for a leading supplier of marketing solutions for golf course suppliers. I’m the head of the digital department.
For what projects/services did your company hire MindK?
We hired MindK to develop a new WordPress website.
What were your goals for this project?
Our goal was to create a unique and mobile-responsive WordPress template that could be rolled out for multiple clients.
How did you select this vendor?
We used web platforms such as Clutch and Upwork to identify possible vendors, including companies we had previously worked with. After shortlisting 5–10 companies, we interviewed them over Skype. MindK rose to the top because of their professionalism, portfolio, communication, and price point.
Can you go into detail about the services they provided and the scope of the project?
Based on our designs, MindK developed the WordPress platform template and added featured widgets.
What was the team composition?
I was in contact with the business development and account manager for all admin purposes and the lead developer for more technical conversations.
Can you share any information that demonstrates the impact that this project has had on your business?
We can provide web design and website upgrades to our clients that we were not able to before, so it could have a big impact on sales.
How was project management arranged and how effective was it?
They were highly proactive and always online. While it was sometimes slightly confusing as to who I should speak to about specific things, we had no problems.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
I was impressed with their efficiency, attention to detail, and willingness to help.
Are there any areas where they can improve?
They could make payment information clearer to minimize issues with international transfers.
the project
Development Resources for Joomla Extension Maker
“They are always very accessible, and I feel like they’re part of our organization.”
the reviewer
the review
A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I am the CTO of JOOlanders SL. We are a company that develops extensions for Joomla, an open-source content management system (CMS).
What challenges were you trying to address with MindK?
We were looking for a company that could provide development resources to expedite our development lifecycle.
What was the scope of their involvement?
The resources that MindK provided worked on multiple projects with us and continue to facilitate our development process. They provided one senior developer that helped us build features for new extensions and several junior developers to assist with product testing.
What is the team composition?
We scaled the MindK team up and down based on our needs.
How did you come to work with MindK?
I had previous connections to Oleg Nesterov, the owner of MindK.
How much have you invested with them?
€500–€3,000 ($600–$3,700 USD) per month, depending on how many resources we needed at the time.
What is the status of this engagement?
JOOlanders has utilized MindK developmental and support services for their extensions for about three and half years. The development and support team continue to provide their services on additional projects and extensions.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
A third-party platform found MindK's performance to be 98–100 on a 100 point ranking system. Their services energized development and support and rapidly improved our development process.
How did MindK perform from a project management standpoint?
They offer project management resources, but we oversaw it internally for this engagement.
What did you find most impressive about them?
MindK was very organized and productive, always staying on task. They are always very accessible, and I feel like they’re part of our organization. The developers and support staff were reliable, even on holidays.
Are there any areas they could improve?
MindK was incredibly adaptive in their work. However, this project required deep skill sets in unique tools. The initial developers had to first learn or be replaced with more experienced personnel. It would have been easier for us if the resources they provided were already versed in the tool and languages we used.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
I’d advise a potential client to send MindK any unique tools and languages that are going to be utilized before going into the engagement.
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Ongoing Web Developments for Publishing Organizations
"I’ve never had to question their availability or transparency."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I’m the director and co-founder of a consulting/publishing company called Business Perspectives, which is part of a network of publishing organizations and projects that unite the common areas of activity in the field of publishing. We’ve published several journals including Problems and Perspectives in Management (2003), Innovative Marketing (2005), Environmental Economics (2010), Public and Municipal Finance (2012), and many more.
For what projects/services did your company hire MindK?
We hired them to handle the development of the Business Perspectives website as well as the sites for Kozmenko Publishing, Journals’ International Compliance Index, and Research Center for Innovative Financial Solutions.
What were your goals for this project?
We had an existing site for Business Perspectives with a complex catalog of scientific journals and articles. While supporting our first solution, MindK began working on a new site from the ground up. We aimed to create an international e-commerce platform with a similar content structure, where people can read, publish, or subscribe to the scientific journals and monograph editions. We also wanted to serve the science community in the best way possible by implementing several custom features.
How did you select this vendor?
We had previously collaborated with them.
Describe the project in detail.
We started with a few workshops and kick-off meetings to discuss our major goals and explain our content structure to the development team, breaking the whole development process into three iterations. On the first iteration, a website with a journals and articles catalog was delivered after which they implemented and fine-tuned the payment process. The third iteration included the collection and dynamic visualization of data about authors (e.g. rating, number of profile views, publication downloads and more). At the end of each iteration, we had a demo. They managed all aspects of development and worked closely with us to make the project a success.
What was the team composition?
We had a team of one project manager, two backend developers, one frontend developer, and one quality assurance engineer.
What outcomes or results can you share that demonstrate progress and/or success?
We had a very complex structure of content to work with but the platform they built has significantly improved our efficiency in listing journals and articles. Their work also allowed us to implement payment and subscription functions in a very convenient way.
How effective was the project management?
They work with an Agile approach so I communicated with a project manager almost daily. Much of the interaction was done through phone calls and emails. I’ve never had to question their availability or transparency.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
We were constantly in touch throughout the whole first project. I always had the opportunity to call or send messages and would get a response immediately. It’s really comfortable to work with the MindK team—they were flexible with our suggestions and all tasks were heard and implemented very quickly. I also met a lot of interesting people who introduced me to the exciting world of IT development.
What tips or recommendations do you have?
Any client that wants to work with anyone has to have a clear and concise vision of the final result. We got our desired result because we were clear as to what we needed to do and were open with their team. Don’t consider MindK as a vendor—you should be a partner with them. Keep your expectations high but alsо listen to the team because sometimes they can bring good proposals to the table that you may not have considered.
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Ongoing Cloud Platform Development for Customer Portal
“Their team is dedicated to the development of new features, and remains heavily involved.”
the reviewer
the review
A Clutch analyst personally interviewed this client over the phone. Below is an edited transcript.
Introduce your business and what you do there.
I’m the president of Harrison Publishing House. We’re a content provider and software developer for the construction industry specializing in the plumbing and mechanical segment of the construction world. We provide the data and tools that allow contractors to connect with their other business systems and whole distributors who they buy products from.
What challenge were you trying to address with MindK?
I needed a frontend development team to expand our cloud platform because my internal team was focused on our data operations.
What was the scope of their involvement?
I began working with the owner of the company very early on, and we developed a good relationship. He set up a dedicated team who helped walk us through the specification process to define what their developers and project managers needed.
The bulk of the work that MindK does for me involves our client facing platform. It’s a fairly complex platform. Every company sets up a profile where they link their employees and businesses that they do commerce with. They can also set up and manage a catalog of material content. They have the ability to link to other business systems and transfer data. There is also a full-transaction capability with some business intelligence and dashboards for reporting.
For data, they used MongoDB and a bit of MySQL. They also used PHP and JavaScript for much of the web page development. We provided them with designs, and then they handled all of the HTML (including slicing) and CSS.
What is the team composition?
They’ve maintained a dedicated team for me over the last several years. We work together and scale the team as our work requires. It’s been very good.
At present, we have about 18 members from their team, including several senior developers, junior developers, a project manager, a QA and tester, and an as-needed HTML resource.
How did you come to work with MindK?
I worked with a couple of people in India and had a very poor experience. I was in the process of looking for someone to help take over the development of the platform after it was migrated from Microsoft SharePoint. It wasn’t working out, and it cost us a lot of money.
I researched other potential open-source platforms to use, and MindK had experience in some that we were considering. I contacted them and began a discussion, and really appreciated the investment they made to learn about the project. To this day, they are very invested and look at it as their own project. They do a very good job in that respect.
How much have you invested in them?
We’ve spent over $1,000,000.
What is the status of this engagement?
We began working together in April of 2012, and the work is ongoing.
What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
This is the product that is going to carry our company forward. We have migrated the majority of our customers on a legacy client server application. It’s been well received by all of our existing customers, and we are rolling out new capabilities for our company that will allow us to continue to grow.
How did MindK perform from a project management standpoint?
Overall, I’ve been satisfied. They are based in Ukraine, but there haven’t been any language issues because most of their team speaks English very well. They use Jira as their project management tool, which I have access to and am able to contribute to as needed. I always have the ability to check and see what the activity is, which has been very helpful.
They use an Agile and Scrum-based approach, which has also been very helpful to us. We face a lot of feedback from the industry and need to get releases out quickly.
What did you find most impressive about them?
The most impressive thing is their commitment to the project, as well as their guarantee of the quality of work. They are the only outsourced software developer that I’ve ever come across that has refunded money for coding errors which they caused. Their team is dedicated to the development of new features, and remains heavily involved.
Are there any areas they could improve?
I will take a pass on this one.
Do you have any advice for potential customers?
In my experience, the more documentation that a client can provide upfront will have great benefits in helping MindK estimate the project, scope, and timeline.
the project
DevOps Support for IT Company
"MindK has provided top-notch and highly-skilled resources."
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I'm the head of operation, cost & planning of an IT company providing support and consultancies to clients in Europe and Usa
For what projects/services did your company hire MindK?
MindK has collaborated with us in supporting the final client in a project regarding DevOps activity.
How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?
We collaborate with various partner but MindK is one of the best in terms of quality of profile proposed and time to market
Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.
The activity consists in providing devops support across different project streams
How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?
2 resources as senior devops
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
Projects is still ongoing but the feedback we receive form the final client is excellent. MindK has provided top-notch and highly-skilled resources.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
the team work remotely but through daily stand ups the workflow is efficient
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
I appreciated the time to market in replying to our requests and the quality and skill of the resources proposed.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
no
the project
Company Site Design & Dev for Trading Company
“We were pretty happy with their high level of responsibility.”
the reviewer
the review
The client submitted this review online.
Please describe your company and your position there.
I’m the chief security officer (CSO) at OCTO Trading Solutions AG.
For what projects/services did your company hire MindK?
We engaged MindK to help us develop our company’s website.
What were your goals for this project?
We wanted to create an informative and secure website.
How did you select this vendor?
We found them through positive referrals from the market.
Describe the project in detail.
They worked with us to create an informative and secure website.
What was the team composition?
They provided a team of developers.
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
We’re fully satisfied with the results.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
We were pretty happy with their high level of responsibility. I especially appreciated Ruslan (Head of Frontend Development, MindK) for his proactive position.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
I was impressed by their reaction speed.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Overall, the team was good, but maybe they could concentrate on the presale process a bit more and go further in-depth on tasks.
The project was a huge success. In fact, the MindK team went the extra mile in meeting the client's needs, delivering work with utmost quality and ahead of schedule. Apart from that, they managed everything well while utilizing their extensive technical expertise to ensure a seamless experience.