Tag: STARTUPS

How to Find the Right Web Developer

Posted on by Volodymyr Khitsiak

Need to find a developer for an app? Wondering how to find who designed a website? Urgently want to find a startup partner? Don’t have the needed technical expertise to check your candidate? With so many options and alternatives on offer you simply don’t know how to act, right?

First and foremost, stop feeling overwhelmed, here comes the way out! Check this!

To make your products or projects worth bragging about, you need to find the right team who can put all your ideas into reality. With thousands of web developers on market, the main concern you might face today is how to find not only the top talent but the right team for your needs. Below, we have handpicked the list of things to do before you get started with the hiring process. By performing these steps you’ll be able to find web developers for startups or already existing businesses without any hassle.

But before we go further, consider this: these suggestions will be useful both for those who need to hire a freelance web developer or a team member on a day-to-day basis.

And now, let’s dive in! 

Steps to follow to find the right candidate for your project

Determine your ideal candidate:  to help you with that, take a look at any web developer profile sample and analyze which skills your ideal candidate should have, professional and personal. The better way is to have a consultation of the web agency, analysing your particular case, they will be able to recommend the most optimal skillset.

State the particular position requirements: think about all duties and responsibilities the individual should be able to cope with. Think also about the roles of quality assurance engineer being involved into the development.

Decide upon the preferable way of cooperation: decide whether you need to hire staff on an hourly or ‘per project’ basis. For saving reasons, it’s recommended to hire a dedicated developer.

Don’t work directly with the freelancer if you feel you are not enough tech-savvy: we are not joking! Please take this issue seriously since a person might provide you with a good looking piece of work containing multiple bugs or internal errors which you’re simply not aware of. Choosing an outsourcing company not only eliminates those unwanted surprises but also simplifies the whole process of staff finding and hiring.

Get the full picture of the person you are hiring: browse the candidate’s CV, have a look at the Linkedin web designer profile description and company’s profile. Plus, it would be wise to take a peek at the freelance web designer portfolio.Having a closer look at his or her list of implemented projects also seems like an important way to go. Don’t forget to check the Upwork web developer profile.

Make sure your future team member is reliable enough and suits your business needs: It goes without saying, but we remind you to ask the candidate you would like to hire or a company to provide you with the recommendations from  their clients.


Anyway, these are the key steps to follow if you really wish to find a freelance developer or a dedicated developer that will suit your needs. Meanwhile, whilst looking for the perfect candidate can be a daunting task, one thing remains clear: to erase unwanted fears and worries in the stormy sea of web developers for hire, you should choose a reputable outsourcing agency, such as unicrew. Our technical talent has the needed experience and expertise to guarantee you the highest-quality software development services on time and on budget.

5 Things You Should Know Before Developing a Web App

Posted on by Volodymyr Khitsiak

The product you work on is definitely going to achieve groundbreaking results. The audience is ready. Marketers are ready to launch campaigns. Investors are ready to finance the idea.

The only thing you need is to develop the app. And to hire engineers. And to manage all the tasks. And to control the quality. And to do plenty of other things.

Here is the list of Top-5 things every business owner should consider before developing an app.

1. What is your marketing and monetizing strategy?

You should think about it while planning the app development. That’s vital to create a successful app. What’s your monetization model? How will you attract new users? Answering these questions will help to build an app from scratch and to create an app which makes money.  

2. How to build an effective team? 

The informational technology industry is highly competitive in talents acquisition. Even when the project is well financed, the hiring can turn into the nightmare. This is one more important thing to consider when designing an app. One of the cost effective solutions is outsourcing to a development company. An outsourcing company can provide your business with all specialists you need. Such companies have strong expertise in projects of different kinds. Outsourcing solves the issues in the development process and in the project management and talent acquisition as well. All of that affects the final result and helps to achieve the business goals smoothly and faster.

How to choose an appropriate outsourcing company? 

3. What development company fits to your goals? 

Believe it or not, some founders search the way how to code an app for free. Still, you really can reduce the expenses sharply with the outsourcing. A team of professionals can both give you tips for developing an app and help to overcome challenges when developing your app.

Experience with similar projects is also vital. The portfolio of your potential vendor should include at least 5+ projects (applications, websites, etc.), which demonstrate the experience needed for development of your application. 

Most of the outsourcing companies provide customers with several types of cooperation models. How to pick one of these models is also what you need to know before developing an app.

4. To find the most efficient business model 

The efficient business model is among things to consider when developing the web apps.

Dedicated team business model enables you to communicate with your team in real time. It’s good for fast growing startups.

Managed engineering team relieves you from controlling the processes. You see the results and measure the efficiency. It fits perfectly for enterprise companies.

Fixed project development provides you with the predictable information about time and costs. It works good for startups and SMB, and can be applied to small and medium projects.

5. What are the real budgets, both time and money? 

One of the most important things to keep in mind while developing an app is the time and cost efficiency. It’s very easy to dive deep into ambitious dreaming. Meanwhile, the money will be spent not as wisely, as it could be.

What do I need to make an app firstly? What is you MVP (Minimal Viable Product)? What are my primary business goals?  These are the things to consider before starting an app development. This will make your business healthier and more result oriented.

So, keeping the efficiency in focus is what can make an app successful.

Get It Right: Fixed Price or Fixed Quality?

Posted on by Volodymyr Khitsiak

Have you ever heard this from a software development company: ‘Dear client we are experiencing some turbulence. Please, fasten your seatbelts’? What to fix, what to fasten and what to lose in order not to hear this phrase from a software development company, which is piloting your project. One of the most sensitive issues is a price. Along with other factors, it can markedly affect the project flow.

In everyday life when it comes to a price, shoppers know it exactly before they are in front of a checkout lane. The same situation can be regarding to a lot of services. Usually, we feel psychologically more secure and confident when know in advance how much this or that will cost. But this approach doesn’t work in the same way for all businesses. For such industry as software development, that is not so easy to determine the final budget. This difference is specific to the field. Standing behind checkout lane, you usually know what you buy. Developing a software application, you might not know from the beginning the final work scope or be able to realize that a project flow needs systematic adjustments.

While a client is thinking about a cost, a software development company has to think about a pricing model convenient for both parties. Does a client really need a fixed price or simply want to know a possible minimum and maximum of a budget to evaluate its competitiveness? There are two types of pricing models in the IT industry. Both of them have their own pros and corns. These are fixed pricing model and time & materials model.

So when is it better to fix and when to choose more flexibility?

The idea of a fixed price is that a supplier has to deliver a defined product to a customer at a predetermined price. This approach has its own advantages. It can be considered as an option to go with when a project is small up to one week of work with very well defined requirements and a clear work scope. In a case when a vendor has the similar projects in its portfolio, it also allows to rely on an experience and quote a fixed price.

But this approach implies strong experience and proper application of a risk reserve. Otherwise, it can lead to risk connected with estimation and thus to a serious quality loss. Choosing a fixed price, you have to remember about its disadvantages. This is a lack of flexibility, which means that once a work scope is approved, you do not have any possibility to change the way it develops. Basically, that is a closed book contract. This all is especially risky if that is the first time you collaborate with a company and are not sure about the transparency of all processes.

If you prefer flexibility or simply your project requires regular adjustments, adding new features, prioritizing them, the advice is to go with time and materials. This approach to pricing calculation means that a company charges the client based upon the work performed according to the following standard hourly rates. This approach is highly recommended to use for long-term projects, which last for more than 2 weeks. This will help you to adjust your work scope and influence it every 1 or 2 weeks. The concept of time and materials contract is more client-friendly and focused on the project and its quality. Mainly because of the possibility to prioritize order of features,    

The time and materials pricing model has also its disadvantages. For a client that is a risk to go over budget and over timeline. Choosing time and materials model client has to be provided with accessible and transparent tools for tracking time and expenses in order to be fully aware of the process within a project.

What experience do you have regarding price model? Which one do you prefer?

Unicrew has released its startup product

Posted on by Volodymyr Khitsiak

Unicrew has released its own startup Vimbird, which is a platform for sports events. The team behind Vimbird has set a goal to support friendly environment for events organisers, help them manage all communicational processes, as well as popularize new kinds of active leisure within a seamless online software product.  

All members of Vimbird community can easily organize sports events of any kind, find like-minded people and together implement their sports ideas. After registering at vimbird.com, a user can try three available options – to create, suggest or select and join an event.  

The suggestion of events is a novel function. It implies that anyone can suggest an event, which is not currently available on the platform. After it has been created, Vimbird will start promoting it and searching for other users who may be interested in this event. Once such users are found, a service will automatically create an event for them to discuss the rest of details. 

The developers have a further goal to attract service providers of Ukrainian largest cities, so all interested users can also find and take part in commercial sports events. 

On 14 July 2016, the first game organised by means of Vimbird took place in Lviv, Ukraine.