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We turn ideas intoawesome software
This presentation is the ultimate guide to codequest and what value we can deliver to your project. When you finish browsing you should have a crystal clear picture of who we are, what we specialize in, our current and past projects and what clients have to say about us.
The presentation is divided into the following segments:
Who are we?How do we work?Which technologies do we use?What references can we provide?What makes us unique?
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What will you find here?
Who arewe?
codequest delivers successful products to startups and SMBs.
What differentiates us from other software agencies is not only our experience but also the emphasis we put on the quality of our work. We make sure that every line of code we deliver is robust, secure and easily maintainable.
We’ve built a whole product dedicated to code quality; codebeat.co. codebeat is an automated code review tool for web and mobile applications. Its customers are companies and open source developers from all around the world.
The company was founded by Tomek (CEO) after Apple bought the startup he was a part of.
Due to our experience with in-house projects and business ventures, we are a perfect match for organizations in need of a technological partner who understands all aspects of running scalable software products.
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We are a collective of doers, engineers, dreamers and creatives who partner with entrepreneurs to take products from zero to one.
Superheroeson board
Successfully completedprojects
Years inbusiness
All employees,no freelancers!
Active internationalprojects
30 100% 40+8 8
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Tomek Korzeniowski
Tomek is the founder and CEO of codequest. In 2009, when the Swedish startup he was part of was acquired by Apple, he decided to start a software development company with a focus on quality. 8 years later he still loves Scandinavia and is as determined as ever to deliver impeccable software.
Founder & CEO
Adam Mańkowski
Adam is a true one-man army at codequest. Starting off as a Project Manager, he has been responsible for taking care of our most important projects for the past two years. He pulls all the important strings in this company and makes sure that our engineers and clients are happy 24/7.
Chief Operations Officer
Michał Karwański
Michał graduated from the University of Warsaw in 2002 and he has been an avid developer and architect ever since. With over 15 years of working experience (from polish ecommerce giant Allegro and payment gateway Pay U among others) he is the cornerstone of our tech team. Michał has also won the Polish Mathematical and Logical Games Championship twice!
Chief Technology Officer
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A great team beats with one heart!
Workflow and Toolscodequest applies Agile Software Development using SCRUM,
which means that we are dynamic and open to changes and
modifications during the development. This approach also ensures
full transparency for the customer, who receives frequent updates
on the status of the development and is actively taking part in the
process.
Slack: Is used for daily communication among team members
and the client
GitHub: For storing, sharing and sending the code out for
deployment
JIRA/Trello: Depending on the complexity of the project we use
one of these tools to manage the project and the tasks within it.
Bitrise.io/Jenkins: A tool we are using for Continuous
Integration
Good Practices: Feature Branch Workflow, Code Reviews
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How we work:
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We are experts in transforming ideas into fully fledged products:
we construct apps for startups from all over the world.
In this approach codequest takes full responsibility for design,
delivery, testing and project management.
The cooperation usually kicks off with a Discovery Phase
where we meet in person and get the ball rolling.
A dedicated Product Owner makes sure that the work is well
defined and meets the criteria of definition of done.
The usual output is an MVP (Minimum Viable Product), a
version that you can quickly release to the market.
product
prototype
MVP
Zero to One
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or:If you have an existing team and want to boost its performance
by adding additional developers to you your project this is the
approach you are looking for.
We can connect our developers or designers to your existing
team setup, making the necessary formalities of hiring new
people non-existent.
Connect two or more developers to your existing team of
programmers.
We work with your tools, using your methodology and project
management resources.
We can easily and rapidly add new developers to ramp up
your project anytime.
Team Augmentationcodequest dev
How can you benefit?
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Mobile Development
#swift
#obj-c
#react native
Web Development
#angular #react
#ruby on rails
#go #elixir
#machine learning
#AWS #docker
Product Design
#design sprint
#UI design
#protyping
#usability audit
Web DevelopmentOur team can help you create any web app
from scratch. codequest offers development
of responsive user interfaces in the latest
frontend and backend technologies: our
approach is to build scalable micro services
that can solve even the most complex
problems.
10Przemysław BielińskiSoftware Engineer
The chance to test the latest frameworks and tools is a great motivation for a software engineer. codequest really gets that philosophy.
MobileDevelopment
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Competition in the mobile marketplace is fiercer
than ever. In order to have a product that is
performant and easy to build out, you will need a
solid foundation. Depending on the specifications,
we can build your app with a native or hybrid
approach.
Objective-C
Hanna Dutkiewicz
When building an MVP you can solve the same problem in different ways: we use a lot of ready solutions and past experience to increase development speed.
Software Engineer
Product DesignThere are no successful apps without delightful design, we
pay special attention to this from the very beginning. We
start at the conceptual level and end with visual design. Our
process brings together business, technology and customers,
the result being a better market fit for your product.
Design SprintsMobile DesignWeb Design
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Good, intuitive design is the key to app success. That is why we kick off each new project with the Discovery Phase: an intense workshop focused on design.
ArtistMareta Lakomska
Research and UX DesignPrototyping
Case Studies
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We grow venturesfrom zero to one
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SootheSoothe is the world’s largest massage service,
enabling therapists to find work more easily and offer
their services to homes, offices or hotels. They
contacted us in 2015 because they wanted to boost
their development speed, and we helped them do just
that. We continue to collaborate with Soothe on their
iOS application, backend development, web frontend,
and design.
Responsibilities:
Web Development, iOS Development,Project Managment
Customer Ratings
4k daily active users1k downloads a day
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DegooHave you ever heard of the TV-series Silicon Valley
and it’s Pied Piper? Degoo is the real thing! It
compresses your files and gives you the largest cloud
storage. This backup service offers an unprecedented
100 GB of free space. Degoo is secure, reliable and
easy to use. Might this be the perfect place to store
your digital stuff?
Responsibilities:
Branding, UX Design, UI Design, Project Managment, iOS Development
Customer Ratings
100k installs500 new users per day
DaWandaDawanda is the place to find unique handmade
products from designers from all over Europe. This
German company approached us with an idea to
create a DIY section with all types of inspirations and
instructions for creative people. The work started with
a great workshop and afterward we created a CMS
that allows content creators to transform their ideas
into great looking tutorials. Currently they have
thousands of DIY articles online.
Responsibilities:
Web Development, Project Managment
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FoundersuiteA phrase that probably best characterizes
Foundersuite is its slogan. ‘Tools to get startup sh*t
done’. Nathan contacted us with a big and challenging
project - our favorite - so we decided to go for it and
deliver an easy-to-use and engaging web app that
would help people work more efficiently. Codequest
built a large web application on Ruby on Rails that
combined an idea validation system, investor CRM,
progress tracker, and template bundles with
checklists.
Responsibilities:
Branding, UX Design, UI Design, Project Managment,
Web Development
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SelectHubHernando and Josh came over to our office to ask us
what it takes to create a marketplace and platform
that will make evaluating the quality of enterprise
software simple. Our experience in Ruby on Rails and
development of scalable web services gave rise to a
thriving business relationship and a unique platform
that helps people from various industries interact with
each other to save money and time.
Responsibilities:
Web Development, Project Managment
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EqipiaEqipia is a new recruitment tool for HR departments.
It is based on voluntary participation of company
employees and uses their network and contacts to find
potential new employees. Codequest created the whole
app from scratch and continued to support and
maintain it.
Responsibilities:Web Development, Project Managment
bought by
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SoalNate contacted codequest in his search for a team who
could make his dream come true. He wanted an app
that could offer sentimental iPhone users a new way to
record the story of their lives. Moreover, he wanted an
app that would allow users’ voice recordings and
messages to be saved and shared for the future use
within their families and friends.
Together we created a beautiful app for the people to
store and share their voice memories in.
Responsibilities:
iOS Development, Web Development
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KredytMarketThe team from KredytMarket had an idea to make small
business loans easy and hassle-free. They wanted to create an
algorithm that would estimate the loan risk based on data that
is available online, without the problematic paperwork of
getting a loan involved. They came to us with an idea that we
turned into a working app. It was one of our most challenging
projects, but challenging projects are what we like the most!
Loans of 8 million PLN granted in the first year.
Winner of e-Commerce Polska Awards 2017: Innovation of the Year
Responsibilities:
UX Design, UI Design, Web Development,Project Managment
Don’t take our word for it
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codequest is a true foundational partner of Foundersuite. We look forward to many more years of
working together
Nathan BeckordCo-founder & CEO at Foundersuite
codequest has been my workhorse for going on four years now, and I
couldn’t be happier
Luis Hernando BlancoCo-founder & VP at SelectHub
What I like about codequest is that they don’t start coding until we both are 100% sure that we have the same understanding
of the issue that we need to code.
Aleksander WideraCEO at KredytMarket
I really appreciate the technical depth and perspective that the codequest
team has.
Prabhakar "KP" KarriFounder & CEO at Nlyt
codequest always deliver excellent work using best practices.
Chris ToCTO at Soothe
What differentiates us?
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We build our own VenturesWe were so obsessed with code quality that we took the idea and constructed our very own SaaS for automated code review. Codebeat is now a successful product used by development teams worldwide. In other words, we literally know the ups and downs of startup life!
Hands on experience withArtificial IntelligenceThe passion started almost 10 years ago when Tomek, our founder worked at Polar Rose, a Swedish facial recogniton startup that was later sold to Apple. Since then we’ve built our own self-driving model car and use Machine Learning in several ventures, including codebeat, our very own SaaS.
Microservices are the futureWe see apps not as monoliths created in one language but as a series of scalable microservices, connected and entwined with one another. That is why we have chosen to invest substantial time and resources into learning programming languages such as Go and Elixir.
Your long-term Partner;for better and worseWe understand that our main job is to construct software for our clients. But that doesn’t mean it ends there. Consider us your informal business partner: we can help you verify a concept, vet ideas and tell you when there might be an alternative solution to your problem available.
Wecreate
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Over the years, we have gathered
experience to deliver ambitious software
products. We are proud to work on our very
own automated code review tool for web
and mobile apps, that combines static code
analysis with machine learning to help
developers write code that is robust, secure
and easier to maintain.
