OpenByte

Please describe your company and your position there. I'm the Chief of Marketing in Software company. We are an Israeli startup. For what projects/services did your company hire We provide end-to-end web/mobile software-based solutions for your business., and what were your goals? We hired OpenByte to help us build a custom solution for our StartUp called Tzoomi to help parents understand how productive their children are while online lessons. Our goal is to build from scratch a dashboard for parents where they will be able to view children's productivity reports and a client for Android and Windows that will collect child activities during online lessons and send them to the server. How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors? We've found the vendor through LinkedIn Network and because they have great experience in building startups and already had built a similar solution, we decided to hire them. Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used. We had regular weekly meetings where we planned the tasks for a week ahead. They designed and delivered the dashboard for our customers where they were able to manage their children and check the productivity reports. They delivered the first stage of the project in 2 months. Also, they were responsible for the deployment of our product on the servers. How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions? There were 2 developers in the team, one was responsible for building our dashboard platform, and another developed was responsible for building our clients for Windows, Android Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables? We have launched the dashboard fast enough and started working with the clients that collect data from the computers. They were several errors found but they were fixed quickly. Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness. We communicated through Slack as the main communication tool. They respond fast enough if we had any questions on Slack. What did you find most impressive or unique about this company? We liked that they were fully engaged and always generated interesting ideas for our project. The prototyping was fast enough to help us understand what we want to achieve.

Please describe your company and your position there. I'm Vladimir and I'm a designer. I doing design for more than 10 years and I represent the Doubles Studio company as a CEO. We at Doubles Studio see design ways to solve problems or even save the world. For what projects/services did your company hire OpenByte, and what were your goals? How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors? We searched through the web for different tracking employee systems but they were too expensive for us and then we decided to ask our friends if they know a company with similar experience. One of our friends told us that they know an IT software company that has experience with a similar product and we decided to contact them. Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used. First of all, we have a short meeting to describe our needs and within a week they came up to us with a ready-to-go solution that meets fully our expectations. The solution was to use their existing product which does the same but with more than enough features. So the first step was to use their product and adapt to our needs. The second step was to implement new features such as share tracking time to our customers which were developed very fast. The project is built on laravel and vuejs. We had problems tracking employees' time and productivity and that was an issue for our customers. We needed a system that will allow us to show each employee's tracking time and share that data with our customers. As a result, we decided to hire OpenByte because they already have a similar experience with building tracking employee's productivity and time. How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions? There were 2 people that worked with me. The project manager and the developer which was responsible for developing and adapting the product to our needs. Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables? Because of their solution we're able to track the employee's productivity and share that data with our customers. We're more than satisfied with this solution. More than that they gave us free support for 1 year which includes minor modifications like adding new features or fixing bugs. Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness. The project management was great. We just had weekly meetings to discuss the current project status and planning for next week. Our main communications tools were Slack, Asana, and Skype. What did you find most impressive or unique about this company? We did really like how they attached was to our project. Also, they were great at generating new ideas that I think it's a great feature to have.