App Makers LA

Los Angeles Mobile Application Developers

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Our award-winning firm of 30+ experts specializes in delivering beautiful apps on time and on budget. Our work ranges from wild startup ideas dreamt up by the likes of NFL’s Austin Ekeler, to complex, powerful enterprise systems built for rockstar companies like Los Angeles Apparel.

Our main focus is cross-platform mobile applications and websites (so using the same code for Android, iOS and web), but we can crush anything that involves bites and bytes - from blockchain to Artificial Intelligence.

Our engineers come from the likes of MIT, Stanford and UCLA, and are focused in the USA. Between them, we specialize in technologies like React, React Native, Flutter, Node, Swift, Android, AWS, GCP and much more.

For a free consultation, or an analysis on if/how your idea can be built, and with what budget, please reach out. Calls go directly to our cell phones.

At the very least, please consider me your free, go-to technical resource for all software related questions.

Daniel Haiem

AppMakersLA, CEO

Certifications

ISO 9001:2015
ISO 27001
CMMI Level 3
CMMI Level 4
$100 - $149/hr
2 - 9
2014
Locations
United States
1250 S Los Angeles St. , Los Angeles, California 90015
(310) 362-9130
United States
15 W 36th St. 5th floor, NYC, New York 10018
(310) 362-9130

Focus Areas

Service Focus

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  • Mobile App Development
  • App Designing (UI/UX)
  • Game Development

Client Focus

65%
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  • Small Business
  • Large Business
  • Medium Business

Industry Focus

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  • Education
  • Other Industries
  • Other

App Makers LA Executive Interview

Daniel Haiem
Daniel Haiem
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Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the organization.
Our company, AppMakersLA, builds beautiful software for clients ranging from scrappy startup founders to billion-dollar tech giants. My role as CEO is to make sure each and every project is an absolute success.
What is the story behind starting this company?
When I started my own startup, ClassCalc, I tried outsourcing the development work and found that most vendors out there were incapable and dishonest. After exiting ClassCalc, I decided to build a brand I felt people would be able to rely on, that would emphasize not only engineering competence but extreme transparency throughout the process of building.
What are your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
We pride ourselves on doing development, design, product, and QA all in-house. Humble, strong opinion: any company outsourcing that work is simply a sales company.
How does your company differentiate itself from the competition?
  1. We have startup roots and have been through the most difficult of technical challenges.
  2. We invest millions in abstracting code so that it can always be reused in later projects. For example, while a login screen might usually take 20 hours to build, for us, it takes two.
  3. We pride ourselves on transparency, especially during challenging times, or when things don’t go perfectly as planned (and they sometimes don’t!)
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive? If yes, what ratio of clients has been repetitive to you?
We are industry agnostic and have succeeded in every challenge thrown our way.
Please share some of the services that you offer for which clients approach you the most for?
Development, design, product, and QA.
What is your customer satisfaction rate according to you? What steps do you take to cater to your customer’s needs and requirements?
100%. We prioritize customer satisfaction over profitability for every project.
What kind of support system do you offer to your clients for catering to their queries and issues?
We have maintenance plans that range from “keep my project chugging along at minimum cost” to “Keep my project going and add new features each month.” Custom-tailored to your needs.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients? Is it Pay per Feature, Fixed Cost, Pay per Milestone (could be in phases, months, versions etc.)
Charged per hour, billed monthly.
Do you take in projects which meet your basic budget requirement? If yes, what is the minimum requirement? If no, on what minimum budget you have worked for?
The minimum requirement is $25,000, although we sometimes do make exceptions.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2022?
40-60K.
Where do you see your company in the next 10 years?
Growing to no more than 30 engineers, with thousands of successful projects under our belt.

App Makers LA Clients & Portfolios

Key Clients

  • Los Angeles Apparel
  • Austin Ekeler
  • BookClub
  • ClassCalc
  • Doctors at Reach
  • Arcxis
  • iPermit

Eksperience
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Eksperience
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$100001 to $500000
12 weeks
Other Industries

Founded by NFL’s infamous running back, Austin Ekeler, Eksperience is the one-stop-shop for celebrities to create and engage their communities.

Want to buy a signed jersey from your favorite football player? Want to play COD with your favorite actor? Want to get a personalized birthday video for your friend from your favorite musician?

Eksperience is where it’s at.

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eksperiences/id1621713479

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.eksperience.myapp

iPermit Pro
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iPermit Pro
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$50001 to $100000
12 weeks
Other Industries

Arcxis is a billion-dollar company that manages all aspects of house building and maintenance, from engineering to permitting to inspection. We built one of their flagship product, iPerit Pro, and continue building for them to date.

iPermit's original website was built almost 20 years ago, was falling apart and leaving customers dissatisfied. The iPermit team asked us to analyze their entire process, break it down piece by piece, and rebuild it with 21st centry software to make their internal flow more efficient, and provide an external interface that is more beautiful and robust for their clients. The result is an amazing and continuously growing platform that has powered exponential growth (3X in 2 years) for the iPermit team.

Link: https://ipermit.mightybyte.us/

Client Website: https://www.arcxis.com/

Los Angeles Apparel Pro
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Los Angeles Apparel Pro
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$100001 to $500000
16 weeks
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Los Angeles Apparel (LAA) is the brainchild of the industry famous Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel. When we first met Dov, LAA was scaling at a massive rate, and needed to build a customized and intelligent inventory tracking software system that would streamline the logistics of their incredible operation. After months of intense thinking and creative problem-solving, we built a beautiful, simple software that would coordinate thousands of employees while simultaneously allowing each individual employee to only focus on their own task at hand.

Link: There is no public link to view LAA's website, since it is an internal tool. We're happy to schedule a walkthrough of the website by request.

Number Hive
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Number Hive
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$10001 to $50000
50 weeks
Education

Number Hive is the best, most enjoyable and simple way to practice, learn and master multiplication, addition, decimals, fractions, and other pieces of elementary math. You can never go wrong in learning with Number Hive!

Web: https://play.numberhive.org/

BookClub
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BookClub
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$50001 to $100000
16 weeks
Other Industries

BookClub is a rockstar startup that is revolutionizing how authors connect and build communities with their audience. Our engineers helped bootstrap their initial software (website + app) as they were getting their in-house engineering team up and running, and today, they are on a quick path to becoming a unicorn, with $30M raised, and an exponentially growing community. 

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bookclub/id1563333294?ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Web Link: https://www.bookclub.com/

Bayut
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Bayut
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$50001 to $100000
32 weeks
Other Industries

Description: Bayut is one of UAEs top property classifieds platforms. They are like UAE's Zillow. The platform allows real estate agencies and realtors to list their properties for rent or sale on the platform and allows end users to choose a place to buy, rent or invest in.

Tech stack: Swift, Android/Java, Node/Python (microservices), AWS

Highlights: 4.7 rating, 500K+ downloads on the Play Store

Links:

  1. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/bayut-uae-property-search/id923263211
  2. Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bayut.bayutapp
Bayut Pro
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Bayut Pro
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$50001 to $100000
32 weeks
Other Industries

Bayut Pro is a companion app for Bayut, it is geared towards the B2B users of Bayut (Real Estate Agencies + Realtors) to manage their property Classifieds, teams, and the sale Leads generated from the Bayut Platform.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/bayutpro/id1450925753

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bayut.bayutpro&hl=en

iPermitusa.com
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iPermitusa.com
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$10001 to $50000
33 weeks
Hospitality

Permit is a medium sized company that specializes in and streamlines the process of obtaining the necessary permits for household modifications, such as HVAC and electric systems, in the US.

They came to us with a website that was 20 years old and asked us to analyze their entire process, break it down piece by piece, and rebuild it with 21st centry software to make their internal flow more efficient, and provide an external interface that is more beautiful and robust for their clients. The result is an amazing, and continuously growing platform that has powered exponential growth (3X in 2 years) for iPermit.

Link: https://ipermit.mightybyte.us/

ASLFlurry.com
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ASLFlurry.com
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$0 to $10000
18 weeks
Education

ASLFlurry is the best way to learn, practice and advanced your sign language, through engaging games & puzzles. You can never go wrong with practice and with ASLFlurry, it gets way easier and fun!

Website: https://aslflurry.com/

ClassCalc.com
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ClassCalc.com
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$10001 to $50000
35 weeks
Education

ClassCalc is a powerful graphing calculator app with a built-in lockdown browser that lets teachers lock students out of all outside distractions such as instagram, calls and texts, keeping students focused in class, and preventing cheating on tests. ClassCalc has 100k+ downloads on the App Store and Google Play, with 4.5 stars and hundreds of reviews and logs over two million calculations per month.

Website: https://classcalc.com

OrcaWave.net
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OrcaWave.net
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$0 to $10000
20 weeks
Productivity

Orcawave is the complete voice and messaging management solution for companies to manage their automated voice workflows. Multi-tasking will never be this easy without OrcaWave! 


Website: https://orcawave.net

Softledger.com
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Softledger.com
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$10001 to $50000
35 weeks
Financial & Payments

Also known as the "Quickbooks killer" Softledger is the new and improved way for companies to handle all internal financials. They've already raised 2.2M dollars and are well on their way to becoming the next unicorn.

Website: http://softledger.com/

Hive.com
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Hive.com
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$10001 to $50000
40 weeks
Productivity

Hive is the ultimate productivity tool for communication, managing team workflows and getting stuff done! With ~100 employees and 26M in funding, Hive continues to grow year over year.

Website: http://hive.com/

ASLFlurry
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ASLFlurry
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$10001 to $50000
20 weeks
Education

ASLFlurry is the best way to learn, practice and advanced your sign language, through engaging games & puzzles. Let's play!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/asl-flurry/id1659464785

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aslflurry.app

Naked Insurance
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Naked Insurance
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$10001 to $50000
12 weeks
Financial & Payments

Naked Insurance is your one-stop shop for finding and purchasing insurance in South Africa and the UK. Your go to financial advisor! 

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/naked-insurance/id1296794891?ls=1

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=insure.naked.app

ClassCalc
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ClassCalc
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$50001 to $100000
20 weeks
Other Industries

ClassCalc is a powerful graphing calculator app with a built-in lockdown browser that lets teachers lock students out of all outside distractions such as instagram, calls and texts, keeping students focused in class, and preventing cheating on tests. ClassCalc has 100k+ downloads on the App Store and Google Play, with 4.5 stars and hundreds of reviews and logs over two million calculations per month.

Webapp: https://classcalc.com/graphing

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/classcalc/id1314362549

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.classcalc.classcalc&hl=en_US&gl=US

Kardder
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Kardder
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$100001 to $500000
24 weeks
Other Industries

With the simple objective of reducing waste related to business cards, Kardder provides all business-card related services in one digital application. Kardder eliminates the encumbrances associated with creating, saving, storing, and sharing physical business cards and provides an unrestrained platform for exploring other walks of life.

App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kardder/id144685

XYZ Homework
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XYZ Homework
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$100001 to $500000
28 weeks
Other Industries

XYZ Homework is an educational LMS + homework platform that powers learning for tens of thousands of students. Our roll here was to take over the exiting tech team, quickly establish stability within its technical ecosystem, efficiently create a product roadmap, and begin releasing featres that teachers had been demanding for months. Varsity Learning and XYZ Homework are part of the same parent company.

Highlight: Reaching 50,000+ users/year.

Link: https://www.xyzhomework.com/

Varsity Learning
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Varsity Learning
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$50001 to $100000
20 weeks
Other Industries

Varsity Learning is an educational LMS that powers learning for tens of thousands of students. Our roll here was to take over the exiting tech team, quickly establish stability within its technical ecosystem, efficiently create a product roadmap, and begin releasing featres that teachers had been demanding for months. Varsity Learning and XYZ Homework are part of the same parent company.

Highlight: Reaching 50,000+ users/year.

Link: https://varsitylearning.com/

Stick Cricket Premiere League
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Stick Cricket Premiere League
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$100001 to $500000
24 weeks
Other Industries

Stick Cricket Premiere League is a cross-platform game developed for an Australian Game Publisher StickSports (https://www.sticksports.com). They specialize in publishing Sport Titles that feature casual gameplay and stick figures. This particular app allows users to play the game of Cricket against an AI or another Player. Their main focus markets for this were South Asia, Australia and UK. Their main source of revenue on this app were in-app purchases and Targeted Ads and a feature that allowed users to earn in game currency for watching lucrative video Ads.

Tech stack: cocos2dx (a C++ based game engine), Swift/Java (Android), MySQL, GCP

Highlight: 4.7 rating

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/stick-cricket-super-league/id1052018766
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sticksports.spl2&hl=en_US&gl=US

Sun Scooter
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Sun Scooter
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$50001 to $100000
12 weeks
Other Industries

Whether commuting to class, meeting with a friend, or exploring your city, Sun lets you begin and end your trip whenever, wherever you’d like. With the Sun mobile app, you’ll be able to unlock dockless electric scooters near you.

Note: Sun Scooter was taken off the app store due to a lack of funding.

Intellectus Lex
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Intellectus Lex
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$50001 to $100000
20 weeks
Art, Entertainment & Music

Intellectus Lex is a one-stop-shop for all your copyright needs and questions.

Note: Intellectus Lex was taken off the app store due to a lack of funding.

Trivia Kings
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Trivia Kings
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$50001 to $100000
16 weeks
Other Industries

Our goal was to build a fun, addicting game that simultaneously and seamlessly improved your trivia knowledge. We successfully deployed the app in under 2 months and under budget.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trivia-king-tease-your-brain/id1571109651

Scavenger Behavior
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Scavenger Behavior
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$50001 to $100000
20 weeks
Other Industries

Scavenger Behavior is the one stop shop to find your favorite local food truck and  even  order your food ahead of time for pick up. 

App Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/scavenger-behavior/id1438388370

App Makers LA Reviews

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Husain Tezabwala

Simply phenomenal and innovative solution for my idea in the form of mobile app

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Without divulging the details of the app (since it's a closed beta right now), I would like to appreciate the thought and efforts that AML's team has put into developing it.

They were on top of everything throughout the process and delivered an at par quality app.

We did miss a few minor details in the end due to a miscommunication but they were quickly rectified by the team.

Overall, I am going to be recommending them to anyone who is looking for app development services

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development

What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?

Timeliness and quality of the work done is most appreciated

What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?

Nothing that I can think of at this moment. They are doing good.

Dovrat Yaish

Could not be more happy and satisfied with their work!

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They guided us through the whole process, from mockups, full design, implementation, testing and release to production. It's amazing to have a competent team to work with that can work with you and guide you from A to Z.

What was the project name that you have worked with App Makers LA?

ClassCalc - The most powerful calculator in the world!

What service was provided as part of the project?

App Designing (UI/UX)

Describe your project in brief

CalssCalc is a smart calculator app that can be used in the classrooms.
With our advanced calculator features and our Test Mode feature, teachers can allow their students use our app in the classroom/on tests by inviting students to the test and lock their phones. All is updated in real time and allowing the teachers to monitor the students devices during tests and allow then to use the best tool they can use at the same time!

What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?

Professional - they know what they are doing and will guide you to get the best results

Honestly - this team is not trying to push you to add more and more features just to make the bill bigger, they understand your needs and follow by it

Communication - easy to communicate with, always there for you and always available for you

What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?

I cannot say anything bad about this company - it was a great experience to work with them

Yonah Nimmer

Best dev shop I've ever worked with. Highly recommend App Makers LA!!!

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Loved working with their whole team. They constantly pushed us to make a better product for the end consumer. They not only did a great job delivering our website and app, but went above and beyond strategizing how to enhance our products.

What service was provided as part of the project?

App Designing (UI/UX)

What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?

They delivered the project within the proposed budget and timeline.

Incredibly talented team. Great communication, beautiful designs, and bug free :)

What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?

I honestly don't have any complaints. Was extremely happy with their work!

Chris Hogbin

Experience has been professional and collaborative from start to where we currently stand.

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$50001 to $200000
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We have worked together from the very first discussions of our project. This began in the ideation phase where we worked collaboratively to build an engaging app to bring equity to mathematical opportunity. In less than a year we have taken it from ideation through to a working app in the app stores. We now have over 60k happy users. The communication has been clear from the outset and the team have endeavoured to walk alongside us on the journey.

What was the project name that you have worked with App Makers LA?

Number Hive app development (web based and APP)

What service was provided as part of the project?

App Designing (UI/UX), Game Development

Describe your project in brief

Our desire was to take a basic analogue game and digitize it. This was multi-faceted as it required real-time play against another human and also playing against a BOT. The desire was to have the app available for web-based, and in both the app stores.

What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?

There has always been candour in the conversations between teams.

The team brings a wealth of experience and expertise. It's not simply me passing over a brief, but we collaborate on each decision.

What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?

Any issues we have had along the way, Dan has heard and done his best to remedy which we appreciate.

Yasha Ahoubim, Esq.

My experience with App Makers LA was amazing, phenomenal, superb, and outstanding!

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My overall experience with App Makers LA was excellent. They held my hand every step of the way and made sure that they deleivered the app I envisioned.

What was the project name that you have worked with App Makers LA?

Lemon Lawyer - a Lemon Law Marketplace

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development, App Designing (UI/UX)

Describe your project in brief

Lemon Law marketplace where a customer can look up and connect with various lawyers specializing in Lemon Law. Attorney and consumers both sign up. Consumers put the information about the defects in their vehicle and a specialized attorney connects with them to provide legal representation.

What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?

App Makers LA provides excellent work product and makes sure everything is made to perfection.

The App Makers LA's team was great at communicating with me throughout the entire process.

The developers at App Makers LA are highly skilled and trained professionals.

What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?

App Makers LA was perfect. There is nothing that they could have done better.

Meirav Eisenberg

The best experience we could wish for! We are lucky to find this team!

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$200000+
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We have been working with App Makers LA for over 2 years now. After years of working with different teams that just spent our money with no results, we were finally able to find App Makers LA.
They built our company portal which is very complicated and busy with details. After we released the portal to production, we decided to keep working with them and to expand the project. With their help, we are building more features and releasing the features to our clients and internal teams. They have guided us the entire process and helping us to focus on things that will make the business grow.

What was the project name that you have worked with App Makers LA?

iPermit Pro Portal - A portal to manage the company orders and status of the jobs

What service was provided as part of the project?

App Designing (UI/UX)

Describe your project in brief

We are building a company portal to manage our orders and to be able to communicate with all the company's different departments and our clients

What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?

They are professionals and focus on their clients needs and things that will benefit us

Great communication! They are always available for us. Easy to reach them and they always make sure we are keeping the communication going

They are taking care of everything in the process, from gathering the requirements to the design and delivering the project

What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?

There is nothing in this company I didn’t like, that's why we chose to continue working with them

Anna Elimelech

App Development

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Being around social media everyday, it became more and more intriguing to me on how apps are initially built. Once i researched about how apps are built, i came up with a decision to create one. I then came across this business (App Makers La) and am happy with these results. They make the development of the application so easy. They are so organized, helpful, and educated on each step and the process you have to go through in order to get what i want. Not only do they offer ideas, they always answer immediately, and explain every step process until you fully understand what it is you want. They offer ideas, but never take away from your ideas. I am happy i chose them to develop my app and am excited to share with the world. I recommend using either Josh or Mac.

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development, App Designing (UI/UX)

What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?

They are very professional, idea-driven, and great creative directors.

What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?

They don't have any current area they need to improve on.