Us

• In-person meeting with client in NYC, Portland or Skype, discussing business logic and system features.
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• Development starts. Daily iterations on workflow wireframes and design, accounts setup for third party services.

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• Daily iterations on workflow wireframes and design
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• Wireframes are finish, presented and signed off by the client.
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• Development on logins and localization

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• Core functionalities with infrastructure & deployment up and running.
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• Core business logic implemented.
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• Work on critical features.

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• Work on Payment methods

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• Enter heavy QA process, apps tested with different OSs, browsers, screen resolutions and devices. Load testing of 100,000 users and bulk usage. Bugs fixes, API and project documentation created.

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• Polishing week. Everything looked over from meta tags to icons and splash screens for mobile apps. Content and marketing. Minor visual elements and effects fixed.
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• Free support and fixes for anything technical
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Them

• 1M funding received!
• Painful talent search
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• Team hired and development has began.
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• Login worked on today for the first time. Something is not right. Showing a blank page for some odd reason.

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• Architect got cold feet, the rest of the team is trying to figure out what his notes meant.
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• Image upload works! Designer finishing the last of the screens.
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• Architect back on duty - team redoing last week's mess.
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• Front-end functional - but has Internet Explorer issues. Not totally responsive.
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• A VP of Business Development is hired and is now mandating additional critical functionalities to be added.
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• First demo to investors! But only works in Chrome using hardcoded data.
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• Site is operational - first thousand people registered.
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• System crashes daily and can't handle 5,000 users.
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• Team is camping in the office so vital architecture changes can be made in order to migrate to a new host. Uploaded images lost in the process.
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• Development lead quits because he thinks his boss is moron.
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• Due to a bug in currency conversions, system paid incorrect amount for transactions done in EUR. Logs are missing.
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• Company consists of 8 people. Burn rate is 50K a month, while profit is only $500 a month.
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• API needs to integrate with business partner. Team focusing on redoing all functionalities and rewriting the API doc.
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• Apparently the partner's clients are customers from French Canada. Team now frantically adding localization support.
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