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CRAFTING your Startup
Reach product-market fit without missed deadlines, broken budgets, and poor quality.
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How we can help your startup…
Pre-seed / Seed
Our go-to-market expertise can give you a helping hand from design to development. We’ll help you with:
Fast prototyping
Proof of Concept
Market-focused MVP
Series A
Scale effectively after establishing product–market fit. We’ll help you with:
MVP improvements
Infrastructure
Architecture & design
Series B+
We’ll help you scale predictably, launch new products, and enter new markets. We’ll help you with:
Optimizing infrastructure for expansion
Globalization & localization
Optimizing UX/UI for larger audiences
Large 3rd party integrations
Offering technical support
HERE’S HOW WE DO IT
We know you need your MVP out fast. When it hits the market, we’ll make it even better with agile improvement cycles.
We know
what matters
Waterfall, agile, who cares? Working with 50+ startups we realized there are 3 main goals you have. Your product needs to be:
Scenario:
You’re promised an MVP in 3 months.
5 months later, it’s not even in sight.
Meanwhile, you’re burning money at unsustainable rates.
Next thing you know, you’re out of business.
We’ll make sure you hit the market quickly with your MVP.
That means you’ll get user feedback fast.
And that means you’ll be able to improve your product.
Our experts will make informed, realistic time estimates and create a detailed roadmap to make it all possible.
We won’t overpromise. We’ll overdeliver.
Scenario:
You’re a startup, looking to hire a vendor to develop your product.
You can’t afford to hire the wrong company. When that happens, you’ll get
- Unreliable development
- Scope creep
- Increased development costs
So what you need is a company with a proven track record.
A company that worked on many complex projects.
A company that understands startups.
Scenario:
You reach the market with your MVP.
The only problem is that users aren’t impressed.
It’s either riddled with bugs or doesn’t solve the user’s main pain point.
We have a 2-way approach to solving this problem.
- Meticulous CI/CD pipelines ensuring consistent quality in every line of code.
- Detailed product discovery to understand your users and how to solve their problems.
Successful startup projects
Quantum-cryptography powered communication →
We created a multi-platform real-time communication software product.
Business contact management app →
We helped the startup establish and continuously grow their user base.
Why us
There are many reasons we consistently provide startups with quality products.
1 project – 1 team
We completely immerse ourselves in your world, laser-focused on your goals. From the moment we start working together, we’re never distracted by other clients. It’s all about you.
Extreme transparency
You’ll have complete communication access to every team member working on your project. You’ll also know exactly who’s doing what, when, why, and at what cost.
Multi-disciplinary approach
Your software product needs more than software engineering. It needs a multi-disciplinary approach with various tech experts, project managers, QA engineers, and designers working together to create a complete product.
Shake – our own startup project
Our sister company Shake is a great example of our startup expertise. We came up with the idea, carried out market research, and then assembled the initial team to make it a reality. This shows DECODE knows what it takes to make a successful startup product.
38M+
app installs
4
years of constant growth
HOW TO BUILD A STARTUP
Knowledge is power. That’s why we’ve assembled a library of books, articles, and videos from proven experts to help you build your startup from pre-seed to IPO.
- If you’re just starting out, you’ll learn how to create a great idea and how to position your product.
- If you want your MVP to hit the market fast we have great resources on that topic.
- If you want to grow your product and scale it sustainably, you’ll learn about that too.
Here’s what startups say about us
Still not convinced?
Here are verified Clutch testimonials from our satisfied clients.
Collaboration packages
Product discovery
Through workshops and modern research methods we’ll test your idea, make sure it fits the market and show you how to turn it into reality.
From basic to complex
3 – 10+ weeks depending on complexity
19.000 – 33.000 USD
MVP development
From native and cross-platform iOS and Android apps to specialized web applications, we know exactly how to develop and build awesome products.
3 – 6 months to MVP
Full insight into work, progress & plan
60.000 – 250.000 USD
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You didn’t find a plan that fits your needs? No problem! We suggest having a call with our tech experts to better understand your idea.
Next steps
We only take on projects we have the capacity to deliver to exceptional standards – and we never abandon you part-way through.
Over a relaxed call or two, we’d like to hear as much as possible about your project (fully NDA’d of course).
We’ll talk about:
- Your expectations
- Engineering seniority level you require
- Technologies you need
- Your vision
If we both feel we’re a great fit for each other, we can move on to the next step.
There are a few steps in this phase:
- We’ll hand-pick a team based on your desired seniority level and other requirements.
- We’ll send you their CVs so you’ll know every engineer working for you.
- If necessary, we can set up interviews between you and every engineer.
Only when you’re 100% on board with our choice, we’ll go to the next phase.
If everything sounds good to you, and we have the availability to do a great job, we’re ready to get going.
Let’s start building your startup
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Still unsure about something?
Don’t worry, whatever it is, we’ve got you covered in our FAQ.
We can provide you with any number of IT experts you need from our team of 70+ people.
The scope is totally up to you! You’ll be working closely with the team and they’ll work exclusively on your project so you can feel free to change it if needed.
Our dedicated team is flexible and focused on bringing the best out of your product.
There are several ideal key players during this phase:
- Product manager
- UX/UI designer
- Software architect/team lead
There can also be other stakeholders depending on the project.
Yes. All code written by our team is accessible to you at any time. We usually use our BitBucket as source control, but if that doesn’t suit your requirements, we don’t mind using any other source control like GitHub, GitLab, or Azure Git repository.
Native apps, as the name suggests, are used to build apps for a specific platform – iOS or Android – and so the programming language used would differ based on the platform.
For native Android app development, developers program with languages such as Java or Kotlin. For native iOS app development, we have a choice of Swift or Objective-C. As the native apps are written for a specific platform, they are more responsive, faster, and perform better in terms of animations. Native apps are also preferred over cross-platform apps when data protection and security is crucial.
Cross-platform apps, also known as hybrid apps, are coded once and run on multiple platforms. We can use different technologies to develop hybrid apps like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, and Ionic to code the mobile app, using a browser supported technologies such as Html, CSS, JavaScript. Hybrid apps have their own advantages like a single code base, overall lower development cost, easy maintenance, and faster delivery.
If the UX and UI design of the app are not seamless and pixel-perfect, all the hard-core engineering efforts will fall short. All your marketing work will be for nothing too if you have a high churn rate caused by bad user experience.
Yes. The code we create is very readable, well documented, and structured which makes it easy to transfer your project to another team if needed. We always follow the best practices so the new team should be able to easily follow what we have done.
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