MVP Marketplace for a German HR Startup
90
Days of production
From start to a live product.
2,526
Commits
By the Netguru team.
103
Design screens
Produced for the MVP.
The client
An online marketplace linking businesses with technology talent. Launching it successfully meant finding a partner who could deliver a first minimum viable product with predictable quality, on time and inside the budget.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
Time to market was the critical factor, and the resources available were limited.
Challenge 01Limited resources
What could be spent, and who could be put on it, were both constrained from the start.
Challenge 02Speed as the deciding factor
A short time to market mattered more here than almost anything else about the project.
Challenge 03Tested, not merely shipped
The product had to be delivered quickly and still arrive tested and of a quality worth putting in front of users.
What we did
A small dedicated team against a dynamic schedule
Netguru assembled a compact team of developers and quality assurance specialists, with project managers keeping each sprint balanced.
Rails, by senior developers
A fast-to-develop Ruby on Rails backend formed the key part of the stack, written by senior engineers.
Ember.js, on a recommendation
One of our developers recommended Ember.js as robust and free of hassle, and it became the frontend framework.
Agile, applied meticulously
Agile development was applied properly rather than nominally, which is what kept a dynamic schedule from collapsing.
One engineer to sustain it
Six months after going live the solution needs a single engineer to keep running, with users praising its reliability and usability.
Tech stackThe tools that made it possible
01
Ruby on Rails
The backend, chosen for how quickly it can be built on.
02
Ember.js
The frontend framework, robust and low-friction.
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