Onoco

Challenge

The founder of Onoco came to us when she was looking for Flutter developers as she had chosen that technology for her startup. Her idea was to create a parenting mobile app for modern parents to provide them with safe and convenient childcare support. The goal of this project is to:

• make parents’ lives easier by helping them to manage their time and activities thanks to learning the child's natural rhythm and daily routines
• track their child’s development by implementing a variety of features to collect important data about them that have never been combined into one app before
• provide them with a peace of mind, especially when using the help of a babysitter, by simplifying the flow of information between them and the caregiver
• create a complementary solution for tracking baby’s development, baby journal as well as for planning

Project's scope

Our Partner already had the designs so we started our cooperation from 2-days workshops during which we put them into analysis, introduced our ideas to make them fully functional and conduct an in-depth research to fully understand the needs of the app's users. 

This gave us a chance to discuss all the challenges at an early stage and to start the development being prepared better, which has also led to fewer problems during development. We’ve also got to know our Partner’s vision for the app and her requirements. Thanks to the workshops, we’ve also implemented lots of improvements for the designs we received, which included some logical fixes.Then, we were responsible for the mobile app development, backend development, testing and product launch. In the next stages of the project we also take care of preparing further mobile app designs and animations and develop the app. We're still working together on creating new features as well as supporting, maintaining and taking care of the app's performance.

Solution

In cooperation with Onoco, we were able to deliver the project 10% earlier than estimated. We’re still working together on developing the app and implementing new features. 

Onoco is recognized in the mobile application industry. Here are some of the achievements: 

• App of the Day on Apple's App Store 
• Onoco founder was featured in Apple's Women's History Month 
• Onoco was featured in the App Store story "Keep the kids happy and healthy"

Technology stack

Our Partner was aware of the advantages of using a cross-platform solution from the outset so we developed this mobile app using Flutter. For the cloud solution we’ve chosen to use Node.js, Kubernetes and Docker. These tools enabled us to scale the backend as the project evolved and the amount of users to grow instantly.

Communication

During the entire cooperation, we had transparent communication with our Partner. We communicated on a daily basis on Slack to set up calls and discuss the requirements. This allowed for quick daily verification of works and answers to specific questions. Our Partner also had access to Jira, where it was possible to verify the current tasks of the team, both those completed and those in progress, as well as to describe the cases that needed further explanation.

Development process

We've been working together on developing the app for over 1.5 years now.