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Dan Diac - 29 May 2020

Gear up with Ivory, a developer-centric framework

More often than not, we evaluate people based on their skills. How competent they are, how relevant their experience is, what technologies they use. Especially in the tech industry, we believe that growing our skills will prepare us to deliver better results. I also believe that having the right skills is the best way to do an excellent job. But it shouldn’t stop here. Skills and gear If you’ve ever played an RPG, you would know that besides skills, you should have very good gear. I think this applies to our day-to-day life as well. The gear plays an important part in success, as we can see now in the fast digitalization of some industries.

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Alex Cristea - 20 May 2020

The 10 commandments of a successful project handover

When a project ends, some clients are not entirely sure what they should be asking from us. They know that the source code and documentation are owned by them but they're not entirely clear on the exact steps of the handover. To make this process easier for everyone involved, we created a checklist to ensure an efficient project handover. We started from the premise that other developers will work on that project in the future and we asked ourselves "What information would this new team need to be able to re-start the project independently from our initial work?"

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Tudor Iordache - 12 May 2020

Meet Ivory - our highly opinionated acceleration framework

At Thinslices, we are developers and craftsmen and we don't like to create waste. We want to create value. For us, that means building efficient software that takes into consideration the constraints of our clients: limited budgets, faster time to market, and quality foundations to build upon. After many projects, we started to see a pattern. Most applications in the same industry cluster had a common set of features, such as user management, payments, or inventory management.

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Dan Diac - 8 May 2020

Lessons learned while building a prototype in less than 2 weeks

As software service providers, we have to do our best to tilt those decisions (and their budgets) our way. One way we’ve discovered we can do that very well is by creating a functional proof of concept or a prototype to show potential customers what it would mean to work with us. This is the story of how we broke our winning streak of proof of concepts turned into long term projects and some of the lessons we learned along the way.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 4 Dec 2019

Launching a mobile app product: the idea

Assuming you want to build an App that you want to launch as a product/service, and you are not undertaking this enterprise for fun, there are different approaches you can follow. We've done quite a bit of product development so we approach working on this project in a couple of phases. If you are doing it as a learning project probably some of the steps below are a bit of an overkill but it make still a good exercise.

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Paula Cristea - 6 Nov 2019

Going the extra mile for a product we believe in

Founded in 2015 by Tahir Farooqui, Canopy set out to make the whole renting process easier, faster and completely digitized, to support consumers’ desire for flexible renting and the ability to move easily between rental properties.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 17 Mar 2019

What We've Learned as a Small Business by Using NPS

NPS is an important step in assessing the loyalty of our customers is determining the likelihood of them recommending our company to friends and family members who share the same commercial needs. Thanks to the Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric developed by Fred Reichheld and Laura Brooks, both B2B and B2C companies of all sizes and from all industries can now quantify customer loyalty.

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Ilie Ghiciuc - 14 Mar 2019

Business Model Generation App - Canvas Model Design App

Last week we wrote an article about what a business model does for your startup. We made some suggestions we find very useful for mobile startups: Business Model Canvas or Lean Canvas. Both tools do a great job.

Technology UX/UI Design Idea to MVP
Ilie Ghiciuc - 4 Feb 2019

How to create your first Minimum Viable Product via your landing page

The Minimum Viable Product is not about building the minimal product that is usable and sellable, as much as testing your assumptions about the market with the minimal effort needed. After having worked on a few pre-landing pages in different projects, there are a few things that we think are really important:

Technology Idea to MVP
Ilie Ghiciuc - 5 Nov 2018

Scrum. The Right Way to Do Mobile Product Development for Startups.

If you’re a (mobile) startup, you probably know how hard it is to keep everything (and everyone) organized. Developers, testers, marketers, designers, product managers, investors and every other stakeholder have to be constantly communicating, so that all project specifications are understood and simultaneously internalized.

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