How did you find out about this company?

I interviewed a few companies. I wanted to work with a company in Ukraine.

Did you have some documents like wireframes ready or you just had an idea when you approached this company?

We designed the UI internally and used them for engineering. Appus Studio built the frontend in React and the backend in various Firebase services.

How was the first few interaction with this company, did you find anything interesting in first few interactions that helped you decided on hiring this company?

In my experience, their level of engineering for the value of engineers is a good match.

How did the process look like? How often were you interacting with company representatives?

I meet with a project manager twice a week, and they meet on my East Coast schedule. I also speak directly with the lead engineer. We meet over Skype or chat within Google Docs to go through any issues or bugs that come up.

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How involved were you in the whole process? How did company tackle changing requirements or budgets?

This was a challenging web app to build. I'm amazed at what a great job they did for the price. Along with their team, I do QA on our dev server and our staging server. I’m involved every step of the way so I see how long it takes them to develop features. Their speed and quality of code are quite excellent.

In terms of timeline, how frequently were the milestones delivered? Were you happy with the timeline of the deliverables?

The most crucial deadline was the MVP launch date in July 2018. They hit that and have continued to reliably meet our deadlines. I expect that I'll use them well into the life of the company. At this point, I have no urge to build my own in-house engineering team.

How did you find out about this company?

One of our colleague recommended them to us, he had hired them to build an app for his business.

Did you have some documents like wireframes ready or you just had an idea when you approached this company?

We had a very good idea about what we wanted our requirements were well defined.We had an idea for our new product but didn't had the technical expertise to build an app. We provided them with wireframes and detailed descriptions for each input field, including validations and the formulas to generate output. Our app had to be technically reliable.

How was the first few interaction with this company, did you find anything interesting in first few interactions that helped you decided on hiring this company?

We needed a developer who could follow our specifications exactly and guide us through the process of app development. They were very enthusiastic and professional in their approach.

How did the process look like? How often were you interacting with company representatives?

In the initial development phase we divided project in five parts. This process helped us to develop a working relationship as were communicating about details needed to included in our specifications. As the process went ahead our relationship improved greatly. We had a project manager who was responsible for coordinating between us and the developers and QA team.

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How involved were you in the whole process? How did company tackle changing requirements or budgets?

They were very quick in response which we really appreciate. It has been a great experience. They were very open to the changes and improvements and were very quick in their response to issues. Through Skype and their message board we were able to communicate with them regularly, as they were outside U.S., language and time difference was not a problem.

In terms of timeline, how frequently were the milestones delivered? Were you happy with the timeline of the deliverables?

The product turned out to be great and they delivered on time. Though they can work at identifying UI issues.

How did you find out about this company?

Our colleague recommended them to us. After that we had initial meetings and then we decided to work with them.

Did you have some documents like wireframes ready or you just had an idea when you approached this company?

They had to take the UI designs and prototype and build and app. Appus developed all of the core features on iOS. They provided mockups, a fully functional prototype, and a MoSCoW prioritization spreadsheet with the required functions still to be built.

How was the first few interaction with this company, did you find anything interesting in first few interactions that helped you decided on hiring this company?

After our initial meeting we were sure they would deliver great outcome. They were technically competent and asked us right questions and were eager on working with us.

How did the process look like? How often were you interacting with company representatives?

We had a project manager who was our single point of contact, which was very healpful. Number of other Appus staff were also involved in the project from start till the end.The communication of the Appus team was fantastic throughout the 5-week project. In particular, the project manager.

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How involved were you in the whole process? How did company tackle changing requirements or budgets?

I was very impressed with the team for their technical capabilities and their communication throughout the project. The feature estimates were realistic. They provided us with clear and concise report on the functionalities and what would be shown on every screen. This was great, as we completely understood what the app would include right from the outset. They attentively responded to the questions and assisted us where we lacked knowledge.

In terms of timeline, how frequently were the milestones delivered? Were you happy with the timeline of the deliverables?

Throughout the project we were regularly informed regarding updates. Appus built the app over and above our expectations. It was a great experience. I have a few other app ideas and plan on using Appus to develop them. The only improvement I can suggest is offering a better overview of the testing process.