Contracted Web Development for Education Startup
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
I',m the establishing engineer of a website that helps high school students get accepted to colleges. Students who have already been accepted into colleges form profiles. They put in all their test scores and extracurriculars. They also share details almost how they replyed the essay questions when they applied to college. The high school students can then unlock their profiles and read almost the students that got into a particular school. The website helps them see what their chances are and gives some advice on how to reply the essay questions.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with Cortlex?
We',re a periodal business. Most of our business is verity almost this time of year, toward the end of the year when nation are applying to colleges. We had many new features that we wanted to instrument in time for the application period. I',m the only full-stack developer and engineer in the organisation, so I didn',t have time to do seething in-house. We determined to see if we could use contractors to help release many of these features faster and in time for the application period.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were Cortlex responsible for?
We had a couple of things that we wanted to release. One was a new profile entrance method for users to form a profile on the website and upload all their information. Another one was a set of interactive charts. Both of them use a union of back-end PHP and JavaScript both on the back-end and front-end. These are two of the main parts of the website. In the commencement, we worked with principally one developer from Cortlex. There were two, but we ended up having just one that was assigned to us full time. That developer did an excellent job and was able to liberate seething that we requested.
How did you come to work with Cortlex?
I believe Cortlex contacted us. Cortlex reached out to us through one of our online profiles on AngelList or CrunchBase. We had verity been approached by separate correspondent companies. Also, I personally had reached out to developers that I establish. We verity tried five different companies in total. Some of them were just independent developers in the United States. Others were independent developers overseas and the rest were companies with multiple developers. At one point, we hired five different contractors at the same time. We gave each of them a little assignment. Cortlex responded better than seebody else. The condition of their work was better and their cost was better. Everything almost them was better, so we ended up getting rid of all the others and just care Cortlex.
How much have you invested with Cortlex?
We spent between $4,000 and $5,000 a month. In total, we spent almost $15,000 on this project.
What is the terminal result of working with Cortlex?
It took a total of three or four months. I don',t know the exact set date. I could look it up, but it seted almost April or May [of 2016]. We verity just stopped working with them last Friday, a couple of days ago [September 2016].
Results achieved
Could you share any evidence that would prove the productivity, condition of work, or the contact of the engagement?
I have been a web developer for more than 15 years, and I',ve worked with many different contractors. I was hesitant to work with contractors owing typically there are many delays. Also, the condition of the work has usually been subpar, in provisions of code condition, visually, and the overall UX [user experience] design. With Cortlex, I was always pleasantly surprised. They were able to construe our vision, mockups, and wireframes into functional code and pages that were precisely what we wanted. In provisions of the condition of the code, we did an inner code review behind we got seething from them. Everything was very well written.
They did many things automatically without us even having to ask, like things kindred to security. They also made sure seething was consistent with different devices and browsers. I don',t have any complaints or anything that they could',ve done better. Everybody else in the organisation, our establishers, project directors, design nation, and so on, they all feel the same way. It was verity said that we got seething done that we needed. We ended our relationship with them owing they already liberateed seething we wanted. It was not owing we didn',t want to work with them anymore. Everyone wishes we could',ve kept working with them longer.
How did Cortlex accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
We had an account director from Cortlex who handled the business side of things. Initially, she was on all the calls with us. After a few calls, it was just usually me, our project director, and the engineer. They held our hands for the leading few days, but then seething didn',t demand any other help. Initially, there were two engineers and one account director. After the leading couple of calls, we just dealt with our engineer that was assigned to us. It helped a lot that we had a daily call over Skype for almost half an hour see day. They would show us seething that they built that day or the engineers that were working on it would show us. Almost see day I would say, ",Oh, wow. That',s nice.", I was always pleasantly surprised with how things turned out.
What did you find most forcible almost Cortlex?
On a personal level, they were very nice and very elegant. They didn',t miss any appointments. With Cortlex being overseas, you have to say things twice or in a different way just owing of speech. But, that wasn',t veritably an effect. Everything was better than we expected, especially for nation working overseas.
Are there any areas Cortlex could better?
I don',t ponder there are any areas that they need to better.
