Ptolemay

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CEO of a data gathering platform, and we provide a one-stop platform to search over all of your information in social services like Youtube, Medium, Instagram, and many others

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

As one of our values is saving users’ time we wanted to move from a web app to a mobile app that is faster, and more user-friendly.

What were your goals for this project?

Get 10,000 WAU, with 3.5% conversion, and attract round A.

How did you select Ptolemay?

A friend of mine recommended them back at the beginning of 2020 when we first come up with a concept.

Describe the project in detail.

Thanks to direct integration with services like Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Medium once you like or bookmark something from there - information instantly reflects on Savenger and available for search, tagging and editing. So now all your data becomes organized and packed in one place.

What was the team composition?

The team consists of a Project manager, a Product manager with experience in 2 own startups, Flutter developer, a back-end developer, UX/UI designer, and QA-engineer. CEO has also actively participated - he helped us outline our vision and shared his experience in business process management.

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

Currently, we have about 500 WAU in our private-beta, refine the application and add more integrations with social services.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

They do usually reply very quickly, part of the team was also available every weekend when it was crucial for me. That’s the thing I really appreciate and can’t express how it was important for Savenger and our users.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They are product builders. I don’t know the story of each of them, but the guys who were working with me suggested a lot of fresh ideas, brainstormed them over the call, and even helped me form interview questions to validate them.

Are there any areas for improvement?

The team is spread around the Globe, and I am really happy that I have a chance to work with them, still there is one thing to improve - English.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Being the CEO of Airmonth.com I would like to launch my startup in 2021Q3. Our service is Uber-like for monthly renting of business-class apartments based in New York.

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

Ptolemay already finished the business analytics and UX/UI design phases. We just recently started mobile app development.

What were your goals for this project?

My goal with Ptolemay is pretty straightforward. We need to build a profitable mobile app and start beta testing in 2 months.

How did you select Ptolemay?

Interesting story. We met in NY starbucks 2 years ago and that time just talked about our prospective startups. So here we are, already building my product. We fully trust Ptolemay because they fully covered all our doubts about feature choice, idea validation, a design which to choose, and so on.

Describe the project in detail.

Easy. There are services like Airbnb and Booking which provide only daily renting, but some people would like to have monthly renting with business-class services. I have many friends in networking who will start use my services once I launch closed beta. Ptolemay team helped me to create a detailed technical specification for this project and even did competitor market research. We are creating a mobile app based on flutter.

What was the team composition?

Founders of Ptolemay whom I know personally for already two years. Once we started the project I met their team remotely: product manager and business analyst. I haven’t met with designers and developers, because I think its just a waste of my time.

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

Sure. You can visit my website airmonth.com We already validated my own idea together with Ptolemay team and started build mobile app right away once we received the first order.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

With founders I have contact on daily basis. With the team we love zoom calls.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

E2E consulting and support. Starting from business idea and covering even design and tech stack choice. They are successful startupers so they have good product management experience that was really relevant for me. I feel they are like my own team.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Yes. I think their services should be more expensive, but I hope it will not effect me :)

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CEO of tilda-retailcrm.com and our focus is US market enterprises that have more than 5 sales development representatives. Our SaaS solution helps to convert more leads into meetings.

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

We would like to develop a mobile app

What were your goals for this project?

Considering that our main competitor is becoming a unicorn company we believe that our startup may grow very fast this year.

How did you select Ptolemay?

I have pretty good networking and got many recommendations before the start working with these guys.

Describe the project in detail.

The project is pretty straightforward, we need to create an MVP based on the most valuable features of our main competitor. Ptolemay helped us to understand what kind of features we may have, proposed perfect UX/UI design, and here we are.

What was the team composition?

I had many meetings with Ptolemay team before the start. The team consists of a project manager, business analyst, UX/UI designer, flutter developer, and python.

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

We are still on the way of app development, however, I already can share that this team is awesome. They provided me consulting from day one, share top-notch design concepts and recommended features.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

All our communication is very smooth. We use Slack for chat and zoom for calls. Ptolemay is very responsive and usually, they reply within 15 mins.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their drive and support for our project. They are a definitely fantastic team and we definitely recommend them.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CEO of Technaxis company we are creating now MedBot, conversational AI for medical clinics in Eastern Europe.

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

Our team handles web app development, Ptolemay handles mobile app.

What were your goals for this project?

Project is still under development. Goal of this project is to build valuable product for medical clinics which will provide assistance to patients and make an appointment much faster rather common calls where you need to wait several minutes during the long queue. So Ptolemay team is working with us together.

How did you select Ptolemay?

Ptolemay team founded us via cold email. We had around 3 rounds of negotiations and decided to hire them.

Describe the project in detail.

Already described above

What was the team composition?

They provide flutter developer and UX/UI designer.

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

For this stage we have only concept designs. Development stage just started recently. But I already got info from my PM that Ptolemay team works very well.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Very effective. They ask really relevant questions on our daily standups.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

We talk a lot. And what is interesting that all our conversations are really constructive and productive. We feel that they are part of our team.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I guess they should stop working overtime. I’m afraid it could effect later on. I will feedback again once they will finish the project.

Please describe your company and your position there.

My name is Lida and I’m the CEO of Sola. Sola is a well-being platform for HR. We help employers to provide well-being services to employee through our site and mobile application

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

They developed a part of the mobile app Sola, you can find it on Google Play and AppStore

What were your goals for this project?

Just to develop a specific part of the mobile app Sola

How did you select Ptolemay?

I found them based on networking. I got really good recommendations from several founders of other startups I know personally and they actually provided pretty good competencies and consulting so I decided to move forward immediately.

Describe the project in detail.

I provided documentation with specific tech requirements and they built it based on flutter technology. Nothing extraordinary, but within the timeline as I needed.

What was the team composition?

Developers who developed the part of the app and CBDO

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

We finished our app in a limited time as I requested.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We had weekly personal meetings at my office.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I'm glad to be working with the team; they were really focused on my business. We are still in contact.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Not at that time

Please describe your company and your position there.

My company is StarSirius Games and I’m the CTO.

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

To develop a mobile game Party Alias.

What were your goals for this project?

To get a mobile game within 1 month.

How did you select Ptolemay?

We are in partnership for two years already. If we need to find developers as soon as possible we go to Ptolemay and vice versa.

Describe the project in detail.

Alias is one of the most popular board games for parties and big companies which allows players to guess words with fun. Players are divided into groups, and the number of players in each group does not have to be equal. Our team decided to develop an app, but all our developers were outsourced by existing clients. We decided to hire Ptolemay to develop this game.

What was the team composition?

Flutter developers. We used own PM and designers.

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

I think 50k+ google play installs is a good result. We also achieved №9 rank in board games category for one week.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Our PM had all the communication via Slack.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They really developed an app within a month with a pretty good code. Really impressed with their speed.

Are there any areas for improvement?

They provided special offer for rates, so regarding price/quality Ptolemay is a perfect team.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CEO of Think Production Studio. What we do is generating amazing video content for our customers.

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

We would like to create a mobile app where we all design studio will be sharing their creations.

What were your goals for this project?

We have done the market research, so there is no such app. We focus on a number one globally this year.

How did you select Ptolemay?

The selection is understandable. I know the co-founder of this company for more than 10 years and know that everything he is doing becomes brilliant.

Describe the project in detail.

Same as TikTok, but without ads and stupid videos. We would like to keep filtering for design studios.

What was the team composition?

Account manager, project manager, designer, and developers.

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

Sure. Ptolemay team leads us from the idea. We discussed all the features, finished market research together and even UI mockups are done mutually.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

I believe that communication is essential in any partnership. We use social app telegram for messaging and zoom for conference calls.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their deep diving into any task is impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Nope

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the CEO of Datmark and we provide analytical solutions for sales and marketing agencies.

For what projects/services did your company hire Ptolemay?

We have many clients in Europe and the US. After we finished analytics for them, sometimes software development is needed on the client side.

In such cases, we work with Ptolemay to close this gap.

What were your goals for this project?

We have already executed many projects with Ptolemay. All goals are were to enhance the existing mobile app of our client and increase user acquisition and engagement.

How did you select Ptolemay?

I know the co-founder of this company for years from previous work.

Describe the project in detail.

The last project was to make analytics what to drink: wines and prices. We created a dashboard https://datmark.com/wine-dashboard-en and later on a mobile app for our client.

What was the team composition?

As I know their team consists of managers and developers. We don’t have any communication with developers, so don’t know exactly their titles.

However, we are familiar with all the management team.

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

Ptolemay helps us to provide end-to-end services to our clients, increase their revenue. We highly recommend them and continue to be partnered.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We chat daily and our communication flow is telegram app.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

We love their crazy ideas for every project. I’ve never met such a creative team before

Are there any areas for improvement?

Nope