Seasia Infotech

What was the scope of their involvement?

Our first project with Seasia was for a cross-platform mobile app using Xamarin.Forms. It was a football appointment and financial management system with 2 sections—1 for football coaches or team leaders and 1 for players. Coaches can add plans for a training session or match in a certain location to the app, and a push notification will go to all, say, 20 players, allowing them to confirm their presence. Based on this, coaches will determine whether the training will take place. This is a short description, but the app was really complex and large.

The second module of this app involved accounting, letting the players pay for the expenses of the team through the app. In a football team, an accountant is responsible for managing all expenses like cold drinks for games. After a player takes a bottle, the accountant will tap the name of that person, thus accumulating their dues within the app. Even though I’ve described it in a few sentences, it’s a huge app of 80–90 screens.

What is the team dynamic?

We were able to work faster by assigning 4 programmers simultaneously, along with a German programmer from the client side, myself, my co-founder, and a QA resource. It was a large, Agile, and hardworking team. A few of the members worked until midnight for the full 60–65 days in order to complete certain tasks. Seasia worked every Saturday for at least 9–10 hours on average.

How did you come to work with Seasia Infotech?

I have over 6 years of experience with outsourcing to India through my first company, which was started in 2008 in Afghanistan. There is a limited number of software engineers in that country; since I couldn’t afford local development, I had to outsource the work to India. At the time, I used oDesk [Upwork] and learned the hard way how to filter reliable Indian companies. There are all sorts of options ranging from poor to exceptional.

It was clear to me that if I didn’t find reliable providers, freelancers, and agencies, I’d end up with scheduling and budget problems. Keeping this experience in mind, I had a dozen different parameters when choosing my agency in India for outsourcing. I announced the job on Upwork and went through over 60 applications. I followed up on 20 of those and picked Seasia Infotech.

What is the status of this engagement?

The contract started in May, and Seasia was brought onboard in June. This was a time-sensitive project, with a launch date of August 1st in order to match the start of the Kreisliga. We had around 10% accuracy on the deadline. We will be launching it in the app store in a few days, but it’s currently in the beta store. We had a bit of a delay, which wasn’t due to Seasia but was related to the client’s publicity plans. They intentionally did not release it, but the app is already there. In 2 months, we were able to finish a huge contract that local German companies estimated would take 6 months.

I have started a second team with Seasia to build a React Native app.  

What was the scope of their involvement?

Seasia Infotech built the app from scratch; it was a pretty complex project. The app allowed admin to take care of payments, schedule consultations, oversee what the coaches were doing, and connect coaches to clients and upload documents to them. We can go into the documents and see how much each coach makes per month.

Then, the coaches have a side where they can input their schedule so that clients can make appointments with them on a recurring or weekly basis if needed. They can upload documents and share them with their clients and send text and video messages to their clients through their rooms. Each coach can be assigned a client. For instance, if they have a caseload of 20, each coach has his or her own individual room where they can go in and work with that client, upload documents, etc.

The client side has a lot of those features, plus these users can upload their photo and bio, fill out a health history form, and sign their treatment agreement electronically, all within the app.

How did you come to work with Seasia Infotech?

We interviewed several companies originally, but all of them either wanted to charge too much or they didn't have the expertise. We eventually hired a guy in New York. He told us that he was working on the project, but when the deadline came around in February 2016, we found out that he had never worked on it. When we learned that, we terminated that relationship. Then, our web developer and project manager found Seasia Infotech through Upwork. We interviewed them, and they said they were confident in what they could for us, so we went ahead and hired them.

What is the status of this engagement?

I think we hired Seasia Infotech in March 2016, and the project was completed in September 2016. The work is done for the most part. If we find any glitches or issues, Seasia Infotech has agreed to fix some of them as they come up. If we want to update something or add a feature, we’ll hire them for that change. 

Please describe the scope of their involvement in greater detail.

We partnered with Seasia Infotech for two client projects, including the deployment of an online cloud solution. It ran from blueprint until launch and maintenance. The scope was an online learning platform for educators and students. It was a classroom tool featuring easy signup and onboarding, through which teachers could use audio-guided sessions for helping students in their day-to-day activities. There was also an administrative side of the project, allowing admins to manage users and monitor analytics. We took care of the design, while Seasia Infotech handled the implementation.

How did you come to work with Seasia Infotech?

We found Seasia Infotech through a personal connection. One of my friends had used them and reached out to me while I was looking for some low-cost resources with a high degree of reliability and communication. In that sense, Seasia Infotech fit the bill.

Could you provide a sense of the size of this initiative in financial terms?

The cost is project-specific, so it's hard for me to provide a total figure. The monthly rate was in the tune of $15,000 to $20,000 for both of our projects. We worked with Seasia Infotech for around one year.

What is the status of this engagement?

We had our first talks with Seasia Infotech in July 2015. The work was started in September. Everything assigned to Seasia Infotech was finished in October 2016. We have continued our communication, and we are pursuing further opportunities. When the right time comes, we will engage Seasia Infotech again.