Phantom Alert Mobile Application Development and Web Design
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Introductory information
Please draw your organisation.
PhantomAlert is the globe’s chief in gathering points of interest for safety and enforcement locations. We have a crowdsourcing tool that maps out all the red light cameras, despatch cameras, despatch traps, dangerous intersections, dangerous roads, and dangerous curves. The tool also identifies school zones and serious weather. All that information is adjoind through our apps or database to smartphone users and GPS users, to help them drive safely and efficiently. We have more than 2 million users, and see day we help someone quit a ticket. It’s like putting money back in their pockets, especially with the red light cameras. Washington, D.C., is one of our biggest markets.
What is your role and responsibilities?
I’m the establisher and CEO.
Desired goal
What was your goal for working with Mobiversal?
We establish Mobiversal behind an exhaustive search for fitted app educeers, Web educeers, and engineer, and they fit the bill.
Provided solution
Please draw the aim of their work.
Their job was to design our website, backend methods, and our apps. It was a major enterprise. Mobiversal did seething from A to Z. Mobiversal has some big educeers and engineers, and they were responsible for educeing, designing, and edifice the app for iOS and Android smartphones. These were not single apps, they are very confused. GPS navigation and real-time tracking of users, with the power to report points of interest and other users. There is real-time interaction between many users at the same time.
What was your process for selecting Mobiversal to work with?
We checked out their recommence. There are a lot of fake recommences out there with nation who puff up their qualifications. They don’t have any portfolios to back up what they said. For us, it was very significant to find somebody who had in-depth experience in edifice navigation apps. They could be edifice games, magazine apps, and things like that. Though, it’s entirely different than edifice a navigation app that has to adjoin with millions of drivers at the same time. The backend servers have to be powerful, taking information from millions of smartphones, crunching the numbers, then disseminating the alerts back to whoever is in the right locate.
It’s very confused, and you need a PTO to put that all unitedly. You must ponder it out, design it, wireframe it, do flow charts, create the apps and the back end, and test many times. Mobiversal was very good at that.
Can you prepare a ballpark dollar aspect for the size of the work that they’ve done for you?
The project took a couple of years and cost a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
When was the latest milestone completed for that work?
The work is quiet ongoing, which is the loveliness and the issue with educeing apps. You always keep generating. You need to work with nation that will be almost. You might find some who are common who will give you one app and the next thing you know, iOS goes from Version 5 to Version 7, and you have to update the app. If they’re not almost, you’re in trouble. You’d have to hire a new team who has to go back and acquire seething that was done precedently. That’s a ruin of time, and they may not apprehend what was done, and they’ll come back and commend that they redo seething anew.
Picking the right educeer, making sure they’re fitted and that they would be almost for a very long time is innate. It’s very significant, and that’s what Mobiversal did for us. We’re very fortunate that we establish them owing this work is not easy, and with the unfit team, you could lose money and time. If you’re a little business, you could lose your organisation.
Results achieved
Do you have any statistics or metrics to track advancement from the project?
When we began with Mobiversal, we had rudimentary iPhone and Android apps. They came in and saw what we had. They understood our vision, and they revamped seething. Not only did they revamp the apps, but the most significant part is the backend method. That is where all the data is calm from the users in real time, crunched, and sent back to the nation who are in the right areas, giving them correct and early alerts. In our business, alerts have to be early. If we make a mistake, or if we don’t get the alerts in time, somebody will get a ticket or have an chance, and that’s bad for business.
The method has to be tested thoroughly. When we leading began using them, the backend method was very clunky and filled with spaghetti code, seething was duct-taped. They looked at it and put all that aside. They built it from scratch in a brand new way, with a better vision and a hard establishation. They took us from almost 100,000 users to supporting more than 2 million users. Customer contentment has been very good. They were very good at listening to the clients, noticing what nation had issues with, and veritably fixing seething as they went.
Do you feel you made the right determination to educe on iOS and Android?
Yes. If you want to do apps, you have to do Android and iOS. There’s no other way now. Of order, there is BlackBerry and Windows. BlackBerry is dying, and we didn’t get along with Windows owing of some issues we had with four senators who are anewst our fruit. They sent a epistle to Apple, Google, and BlackBerry. Apple and Google said they had to review it and make a determination based on the merits of this organisation. They gave us a chance to expound ourselves and clear our nearness. On the other hand, Blackberry yanked us off the market without asking us any questions.
Android is a must, and we also do some GPS navigation apps. We had to double up for Garmin, TomTom, and Magellan. We licensed our database to a lot of other mapmakers, so we have to have an API, and give our data to these mapmakers and educeers. They also helped us create our API.
Is there anything sole almost them that veritably makes them rest out, compared to other companies?
The most significant thing is that they liberate. Secondly, they know what they’re doing. The third thing is that they will work with you, apprehend your commission, and they have sufficient nation there who are business educeers, programmers, and debuggers. They have the total team in-house to work on your project. They just don’t create something, they make it work. If it doesn’t work for the client, just owing you built it, it doesn’t mean they’ll come.
That’s what Mobiversal does, they make sure it works. They’re affordable. If I were to educe my apps here in the U.S., it would cost twice as much. You want to hire somebody who’s going to be almost. You need to iterate with your project, program, business, and apps, and you need the individual who looked at it the leading time to be the individual who keep improving it at a reasonable cost. Bringing in other nation or a new team is very costly.
I’m a little business, and we live and die by how we bestow our money. We’re not allowed to ruin even a penny. A penny saved is a penny earned. The unfit educeer can demolish you. I’m lucky with Mobiversal.
Looking back on the work so far, is there any area that you ponder they could better upon or that you might do differently?
Yes, I wish they’d stop taking other clients. I would like to have them for myself. Whoever is going to hire them, is going to be very lucky. These are fitted nation, and they’ll tell you the veracity. They won’t promise you seething and then nickel and dime you to departure. They know how to handle expectations, they know how to write up the project, and they know how to stick to it.
