Our value stack

Approach — we build teams, not websites

Refreshingly
simple contract -
A developer
working full
time for you.

Imagine the
best employee
you´ve ever had.
That´s us.

We deliver the talent you need to succeed through a straightforward and effective process that integrates our team as deeply as possibly with yours.

Our engagements are as simple as possible. We keep our interests aligned, so we´re all on the same team. We work on a month-to month retainer, so we´ve got to perform.

A client manager works with your project lead to make sure communication is easy and deadlines are hit. The team checks code into GitHub daily. And our intensive QA procedures help us catch things before you do.

Services — No laundry list of services, just what we do best

Ruby on Rails

iOS
iPhone
iPad

Front end
design

Design

Project
Management

We take pride in being pretty darn good at this stuff:

  • Ruby on Rails Development

    We´ve been building Ruby on Rails powered web apps since before Rails 1.0 was released. We can do custom Ruby On Rails development or integrations of existing gems. We believe that using a framework like Rails is the most efficient way to build powerful web-apps quickly.

  • iOS App Development

    We started doing iPhone and iPad app development in 2010, and its quickly become a core competency. Whether you complete PSD´s designed, have an app wireframed, or want to develop a mobile app to connect to your existing API, we´re capable of bringing your ideas to life.

  • HTML5 encoding

    Hand-crafted CSS3 & HTML5 is our bailiwick. Our code is W3C valid and cross-browser tested. All our production designers pass strict markup challenges before joining the team. We can light things up with JavaScript libraries like JQuery too.

  • Design

    We have a great team of creative designers who take pride in keeping up with the lastest design styles while maintaining their own design sensibilities. We have extensive experience in working with world-class clients and have learned from the best in UI/UX design. Ask to see our design portfolio.

  • Application administration

    We deploy a lot of our apps to Heroku for easy scalability and we love SendGrid for email notifications. If you prefer Amazon web services, Rackspace cloud or Engine Yard, we´ve got experience with them too. We´ll also add your app to our Pingdom monitoring system with SMS-based notifications, so you can sleep at night.

  • Project management

    All contracts include a dedicated client manager to manage communication between you and your development team. We generally work using scrum-based approach to iterate fast and deploy regularly. All managers on staff have masters degree with development or professional business training. We´ll work according to your business processes and help build out new procedures if needed.

Processes — we work efficiently and communicate obsessively

We work the
way you do.

We use the
tools you use.

Adding a Flatstack developer to your team allows you to focus on building your business while knowing you have the resources available to scale up. We constantly refine how we work with clients to ensure each task flows from you to us and back again in a way that minimizes mistakes.

Using an agile workflow, we work the way you do – We use the same project management tools you are already using. Here are the tools we use with our clients:

  • Daily communication – Basecamp, Skype, Campfire
  • Ticketing – Pivotal Tracker, Trajectory, Jira, Lighthouse, Sifter
  • Code repository – GitHub
  • BDD – Cucumber
  • Monitoring – Pingdom, Airbrake, New Relic

We have standard processes that integrate our team and yours including daily standups and daily scrum reports as well as sprint retrospectives.

Test Task — try before you buy. What could be better?

Get to know us
with 20hrs free
development.

Post a ticket
or task.

And we´ll build
it and post it
to Github.

Over the years we´ve found the best way to get each other is by simply going to work for you. We start our relationship with clients by completing a free 20 hr "test task" to showcase our processes and skills.

Give us a quick development task with an estimation of how long you expect it to take. We´ll get it done and back to you for your review. We do this so you´ll be confident about our level of expertise and programming speed before we formally engage. We know you´ll appreciate the quality of our code.

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