Yako

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

WAYD application is helping sport teams gain funds and engage with their supporters through premium albums.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

Our scope was something like this:

1. Create your team in app First you need to create your club or team inside WAYD application and connect your team or club legal bank account where you will receive payments from subscriptions to albums.
2. Create premium albums After first team is created you will have to create a first album, give it a name and set prices for album and that's it! ‍
3. Invite supporters to join Now it's time to invite supporters to join album you just created! On top of this there is a Stripe integration and a lot of photo metadata processing.

SOLUTION

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

We tested Yako agains 50 other developers, with same code test, then evaluated against both estimate and code quality. They won.

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

First phase of development was very design oriented. We gave a mockup, and they developed based on that alone. The next phase was more about joint development and specification, as a team. Deliverables have resulted in close to 200 builds over the two years so far. Mostly a new build each Friday, but at times more often.

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

3-5

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

They are a great team to work with and are flexible when needed. They able to crunch through the work when required.

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

Great English level, rapid respons and able to accomodate needs.

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

Ability to analyse design and make it work as an app, with little or no specs

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

We have moved to Jira rather than trello, and it feels like a nice step up.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

We develop easy to use wireless audio solution for musicians and band, and I am the CTO of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Yako?

We was looking for flutter experts to help us, able to make a good split of UI-model-backend and able to implement nice UI.

What were your goals for this project?

Correct our current app architecture to add a model and modify the existing UI with the new feedback and feature wanted by the users.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We searched online and especially on upwork. We choose yako because of the good english skills and after a talk with our engineers. We hire them for a little job to test the quality of the code and it was very promising.

Describe the project in detail.

We started with one new app screen with multiple feature that should fit our actual UI line. They proposed multiple design and after our selection, implemented them. After this first step, we ask to review the whole architecture of the project. They implemented a new model and implemented a good split of the screens with block library. Finally they corrected the existing screens with our new requirements.

What was the team composition?

Yako affected us one engineer available fulltime on our project. WE was directly communicating with him, engineer to engineer, which remove a lot of overhead (vs project manager) and misunderstanding.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Yako did a great job for us for our flutter application. They understood quickly and correctly the requirements of the project, managed to reshape the architecture of the code for better UI split, and implemented all the UI with backend interaction. They communicated well on any rising issue to solve them and were very productive and on time. We will definitely continue to work with them.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We use slack as main communication channel and it was very productive.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The code quality and reactivity.

Are there any areas for improvement?

They could have introduce themselves in a nice way to all team member in our company. But at the end, the work is done.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founder of PeerPlanet, an app, that will help people to live more sustainable. I am responsible for the development of our product, which is an app.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Yako?

Flutter App development. (Bug fixes and new features)

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to progress so far, that we are able to launch our app, which we achived.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We searched for an experienced flutter developer for a couple of weeks already, which was not too easy, because the technology is relatively new. After a few weeks we had two high quality applications. We gave a small tasks for both of these engineers. Daniel's work was really quick and in a very high quality. That is why we choose him over the other engineer.

Describe the project in detail.

The objective was to fix a few bugs our flutter application had. Additionally, a few new features were developed, like notifications, and chat. For some of these things we did not even provide designs, which was no problem for Daniel. He quickly understood our business model and app and even suggested changes in the features that absolutely made sense.

What was the team composition?

We have one backend engineer, Daniel did the frontend work and I am the product owner.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Daniel fixed existing bugs in no time. You could tell, that we is really experienced with the technology. He also developed new features, like a chat really quickly and flawless.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Really effective. Communication was always really quick and straightforward. Work was well documented.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Not only did he do an excellent job with very high-quality work, but he was also really proactive and always made important suggestions. In no time he understood what our app was about has quickly familiarized himself with our team and code.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Not really.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Enoram, Inc. is software developer company specialized in internal applications, design and developments for industry ranging from eCommerce, retails, industrial and government.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Yako?

Mobile apps. We were moving to mobile platform about 3 years ago.

What were your goals for this project?

To be in the best platform for mobile for our clients.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We moved our Java and Android architecture solutions to Go lang and Flutter. Yako is one of the early adapter for Flutter. We just clicked. They are dedicated to providing excellent development to our small but agile team that is located around the world.

Describe the project and the services they provided in detail.

We setup agile development tools and paradigm pretty quick with them. We are agile and extreme developers' shop. They jumped in really quick and deliver the mobile design and MVP releases very quickly. They understood the requirements given which are pretty much stories in our project tool site. They developed and released the apk daily mostly and just couple of day for complex MVP.

What was the team composition?

We worked with 3 developers and currently with 2 developers. We are small agile team and with quick MVP 2-3 developers from them are enough for us.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our decision to move the server code from java to Golang and importantly abandoning Android and move to Flutter was not an easy decision for our company. The critical factor that we are so successfully to be able to deliver new mobile app in about 2 months period with rapid MVP deployments could be single handily pointed to this team.

How was project management arranged and how effective was it?

We do not have project management, it just asking for disaster to have someone to manage project. We have Product Engineering. Once we put our effort, energy and mind to Product we keep having the products not projects. The arrangement very effective as turned out we keep delivering new apps.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The people, dedication and the love to the flutter. We had been hiring many and many flutter developers. But they are just ruse that pretend to be flutter developers but still Android or that who-used what "kotlin" language. We are Flutter and will be flutter development shop so it's very important to have team that is on board with us too.

Are there any areas for improvement?

We always keep improving our process on development and process. One thing we would like to improve is the testing and CI release. However this is not on them. The UI development just not as mature in testing tools and CI. Flutter sdk and platform will improve on this area very quick and we will be ready and reap the most benefits because of that.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a co-founder of a small software and IT consulting company. We offer custom software solutions and IT infrastructure for our clients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

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

We needed an experienced and professional Flutter developer for creating a newspaper and magazine app iOS and Android using Flutter.

SOLUTION

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

We searched online and went through a lot of developers on different platforms and found that Yako had good track record and was easy to talk to.

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

We had a simple design and goals which Yako understood really quickly. We wanted the app to be developed using Flutter and integrate with several different APIs.

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

Yako was our main contact for everything regarding the development of the application.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Yako delivered very promptly.

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

We mostly communicated throught Upwork but Yako was open to use any platform that we needed.

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

Very good development skills. Easy to communicate with. Fast to understand requirements.

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

All areas were up to our standard.