Corpsoft.io has excelled at quickly delivering, testing features, and finding bugs, making them a great MVP development partner. The team is budget-conscious and offers top-notch project management. Additionally, they’re very agile, available, understanding, and highly communicative.
💬Project summary:
Corpsoft.io has built the MVP of a marketplace that allows live music shows’ buyers to find and book musicians. The technology stack includes PHP, HTML5, Elasticsearch, and other third-party API integrations.
[#D9EAD3]BACKGROUND[/#D9EAD3]
❓ Introduce your business and what you do there.
💬 "I’m the founder and CEO of a marketplace in the music industry that connects musicians with venues for booking live music shows."
[#D9EAD3]OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE[/#D9EAD3]
❓ What challenge were you trying to address with Corpsoft.io?
💬 "We needed a partner that could help us develop our MVP so that we could do product market testing for our business model."
[#D9EAD3]SOLUTION[/#D9EAD3]
❓ What was the scope of their involvement?
💬 "Corpsoft.io has helped us develop our MVP from scratch. First, we went into a robust discovery phase that lasted five months. After that, we jumped into the development phase, which lasted about 3–4 months. As for the technology stack, we’ve used PHP for the backend, HTML5 for the frontend, and Elasticsearch for the search engine, and we’ve integrated other third-party APIs into the system.
Although we owned the design process, Corpsoft.io also brought in a designer who helped us fill in the gaps. Currently, they monitor the product. Their services include product maintenance and bug fixing as part of the contract we signed.
Our platform has a database that allows buyers of live music shows to search for musicians based on three key components: location, availability, and keywords such as genre, event type, hashtags, and band names. The search results rank musicians based on those criteria using a series of algorithmic ranking functions. Then, buyers can select musicians, see their profiles, and book them directly on our platform. After selecting the musician, our platform takes the user to a payment system integrated into the backend to process the booking payment."
❓ What is the team composition?
💬 "We’ve worked with around six people from Corpsoft.io, including a senior developer, a designer, a project manager, and two lower-level developers. Still, everyone from their team joins our weekly calls, from the CEO and other people in senior roles to the regular developers."
❓ How did you come to work with Corpsoft.io?
💬 "We found them through research, using an application that helped us find hundreds of thousands of different development agencies. We then launched an RFP and vetted around 50 different companies internationally, including Corpsoft.io. We were looking for a partner that would be able you build our MVP and consult on the technologies and features within a specific budget. We ultimately chose them because their proposal and budget met our needs."
❓ How much have you invested in them?
💬 "We’ve spent around $35,000."
❓ What is the status of this engagement?
💬 "We started working together in November 2021, and our engagement is ongoing."
[#D9EAD3]RESULTS & FEEDBACK[/#D9EAD3]
❓ What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?
💬 "Corpsoft.io is excellent at developing MVPs, which is why we hired them initially. They’re very fast at implementing features, and they’ve helped us test a lot of functions faster than other companies would. Additionally, they’re quick at identifying and solving bugs amidst development phases."
❓ How did Corpsoft.io perform from a project management standpoint?
💬 "Corpsoft.io is great at staying on budget — the budget they initially provided is the budget we ended up spending. As for project management, they’re very communicative, and their project management team is top-notch. Although they’ve missed a few deadlines, those delays have been attributable to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. We use GitHub, Jira, and Userback to manage the project and track bugs, and we communicate via Slack."
❓ What did you find most impressive about them?
💬 "Corpsoft.io is extremely agile and available, but communication is probably their main strength. From the beginning, they’ve understood the project much better than anyone else and been able to implement quick solutions. Whenever we’ve had misunderstandings, we’ve been able to jump on calls and communicate our needs better."
❓ Are there any areas they could improve?
💬 "It would be great if Corpsoft.io improved their QA. They’re very good at implementing features very fast, but through that process, they don’t test as much as we would like."
❓ Do you have any advice for potential customers?
💬 "Focus heavily on the discovery phase, iron out all the details, and pay attention to the design process. The discovery and design phases will help you answer a lot of questions."
[#D9EAD3]RATINGS[/#D9EAD3]
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ – Quality;
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ – Schedule;
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ – Cost;
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ – Willing to refer.
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