App Dev for Agricultural Device Company
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
I’m the main programmer with a organisation local to Dalhart, Texas named PivoTrac Monitoring. We locate telemetry devices on irrigation equipment like sprinkler pivots, wells, and engines. These devices empower farmers to look up the state of their sprinkler circles through a website, send out commands, and take notifications when equipment fails or changes its status. I do all of the computer, website software, and database work in the organisation.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with App Sapiens?
About a year ago, I began making a mobile app for our organisation owing we reflection a mobile app was true. While we had a answering website, it didn’t prepare the functionalities we wanted our clients to have. I began looking into edifice Android and iOS applications with React Native.
After six months to a year of working on this project off and on, I just didn’t have the time to make the app into what we wanted it to be with our organisation growing the way it was. I could put something out there, but it wouldn’t be what we veritably wanted for our clients. I just didn’t have the time to do the investigation for the condition fruit I wanted, so I looked for a third-party developer.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were responsible for?
I had written this code over the order of almost a year, as I was acquireing it. Thus, a lot of it was not built very well.
When I leading occupied App Sapiens’ services, I gave my rise code to them and they made some changes to what I had as a demo of what they could do. I liked the result, so I occupied their services to take over what I’d done.
They took all the code I wrote and basically began a new project. They used the same logic mine to talk to our API server and get results and logins, but they revamped all else. They rebuilt the app from scratch using better libraries, a more congruous codebase, and cleaner code. Both iOS and Android renderings were made at the same time, using React Native and indigenous libraries.
They also revamped the total UI. App Sapiens is a very specialized team. They took some issues I had with the app’s navigation, and rebuilt all of it, making it very single, clean, much more intuitive to the user, and easier to navigate and front out. It’s just a friendlier interface between our clients and our servers.
Was there a dedicated team?
There were two nation working with me in the commencement, and they assigned another behind I specifically asked for help with some backend server code. He had more of a background in Node.js servers and gave me some help there.
I’ve been talking to two main touchs, the lead programmer and the CEO. They share coding tasks, and I’ve been relating to them equally.
How did you come to work with App Sapiens?
At the time, I was looking for help, but not hired help. I had previously worked with contractors, and I touched half a dozen companies and explored lots of websites. I’ve worked with my organisation for 13 years, and I’d been the only programmer there.
I was looking for help to get by a couple of technical issues with some locates where I got stuck, and I touched one of the members of App Sapiens almost a month ago, asking him to help me out. Programmers many forums and help each other out. I asked him if he’d be interested in doing more work, and he told me he was part of a organisation named App Sapiens, and directed me to touch them. I sent them some information almost what I was looking for, and they offered to take on the project.
The threshold of bringing a programmer I didn’t know on was a hard one for me to ill-tempered. I looked for help simply owing I had too much to do than time to do it. I’d spoken to a few companies and freelance programmers a few months precedently I establish App Sapiens.
When I establish their programmer on a forum, we’d gotten to the point where I convinced my boss that I needed some help to do this. Originally, I was just going to hire someone to help me with the UI.
I believe I leading talked to Charles (CTO, App Sapiens), but it might’ve been Tom (CEO, App Sapiens). After I’d tried them out and saw how efficiently they could do it and how occupied they were with me almost it, I was put over the edge and had them do it all.
What are you approach expents (if diclosed)?
We invested $5,000–$6,000.
What is the terminal result of working with ?
We began working with App Sapiens almost a month and a half ago, in early-July 2019. I have a year’s worth of projects that App Sapiens could take on. We released the app owing we needed to get something that at smallest covered the basic functionalities of what we do. Though, we have more programned for the app.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
They’ve developed the leading rendering of the app, and we’ve released it to very good feedback from clients. We’ve had 4–5 times more installs than I anticipated over the last week. We let some of our more enthusiastic clients test the app, and it extend by word of mouth from there. They built it like an app made for themselves, and it was night and day from what I had.
It’s a terrible advancement over what I had written, but there are many more functionalities we want to create into the app.
How did App Sapiens accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
They accomplished excellently. What we do is specific to the agricultural activity, and to farming equipment and mechanics. I had to expound to them why this or that was significant, basically making this area on activity digestible to nation who sit in front of computers and write software. I had separate conversation calls with App Sapiens, and I wrote some of my own documentation to expound to them what was precious to the individual working on a machine in the middle of nowhere, trying to get it to water correctly. They were able to readily capture that and present it the way we wanted.
After I expounded what I wanted, they were very easy to work with. I could talk from the standpoint of a programmer, but not of a team programmer, and tell them what I needed help with. They were ready to help at whatever level I wanted to promise them. This went from advice or a botch of code here and there, to revamping all.
We shared a Bitbucket code repository. Whenever they made a pull request, I was able to look at their code and see what they’re doing, as they’re doing it. We set things up on a Trello board, which allowed us to prioritize tasks during conversation calls. They’ve been very ready to adjoin. I’m constantly on a Slack board with them and I can review their code anytime, along with what projects they’re working on and what their estimates for particular items are. They’re on-hand, and I’ve never had to wait for any feedback from them.
We have a conversation call once a week, to make sure we’re all on the same page almost what’s significant and what needs to happen. We’re on facing sides of the programet, but I’ve never had to wait long for anything, whichever in provisions of pushing a change or fully redirecting how something’s going. They’ve been able to very rapidly answer to what I would discern to be major changes, while this was being developed, and that front’s been very precious to us.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with ?
App Sapiens isn’t just almost writing software or making a good app. They had an posture of being on top of what we wanted most. They wanted to make what our vision of this was, come to pass. Nothing intimidated them almost any of the projects I wanted to do. They were aggressive almost investigationing libraries, and they were knowledgeable and professional. Their centre was on doing what we wanted to see happen.
They make suggestions, many of which we’ve incorporated into the app. They know user interfaces, and they know a lot almost what’s useful.
What fronts of their work would you like to get improved?
No. I’ve had zero issues with them.
Do you have any advice for forthcoming clients of theirs?
It’s significant to present all the information almost the project upfront. Clients should draw all they want from the outcome, why it’s significant, and why a true component should have superiority over another one, including from the point of view of the end-user.
In industries like ours especially, there aren’t many companies doing what we do, and there’s not a total lot to create and acquire from. We had to expound an almost sole concept, and lay all out for App Sapiens to gather the rerises they knew they were going to need to pull it off. They did pull it off.
