Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
ArStudioz is a fully agile based Engineering and Software Development Company focusing on Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented- Virtual Reality; we implement solutions using these technologies on various platform such as Mobile, Web, IoT & connected devices. Our goal is to work on ideas, challenges, and ensure to deliver high quality, cost-effective, and customer-centric products by leveraging both disruptive & traditional technologies.
I am the co-founder and CEO, and I look after the process to ensure that we keep delivering solutions we are known for. My role involves taking care of corporate & financial development of ArStudioz to form a great team in maintaining a lasting relationship with clients. Daily, I interact with my team members of different areas such as development, sales, etc.
What was the idea behind starting this organization?
A few years ago I was contacted by a businessman who wanted me to develop an application. He already had an application which was not functional and wanted me to fix it. When I started working on the application, I realized that the application had so many bugs and old codes, and most of the functionalities were not implemented. I helped him launch it, and one month after, he referred to his friend who had a potential idea but no technical skills, I asked my friends and built a team for this app. This was the moment when we thought of building a team who can help people transform their ideas into digital products.
Over the years, we built a strong team of designer, engineers, developers, Data scientists, IT consultants to cater to the business challenges of organizations that aim to develop a digital product. We enjoy working with Startups and help them from Ideation to MVP development to fully fledged Product Deployment.
What are your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
We do everything from designing to development to deployment in-house. However, we also do not hesitate to hire consultants from niche industries to help us understand the best practice implemented in those industries as there is one thing we do not compromise with is quality of the product.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
We don’t merely work with clients based on client-vendors application; we do more than that. We aim to work with them as a technology partner, help them choose the best technology suited for their products, best practice to be followed, recommend them functionalities that can improve customer experience and also help them to generate revenues.
Why ArStudioz?
• Strong Team: Our team is diverse, passionate, and flexible, we love what we do, and we believe in customer satisfaction.
• Quality of the product: We design and develop Software that out-perform the competition. We aim to deliver the highest customer-centric products that customer uses and creates satisfaction among users.
• Deadline: We offer what we say and within the timeframe.
• Technology Partner: We add values to your products, customers, and the customer of your customers.
• Clear Communication: We believe communication is key to the success of a project. We try to be available all the time for a quick chat or discussion to avoid any communication gap. Apart from that, we have also some executives knowing different languages that allow us to communicate with clients across the worlds without any language barrier.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive? If yes, what ratio of clients has been repeated to you?
Our Ideal clients are Startups as we love building innovative products and want to be a part of products that bring changes in people's lives. As of now, we have not decided which particular industry we should focus on; we are always excited to work on new ventures.
About repetitive clients, my first client is still with us; we are their technology partner. So far, we have a ratio of 75% repetitive clients, and I can say in confidence that my client approaches us first for their new projects.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a mobile application.
Everything starts with the idea, so first we try to understand the concept, find business and implementation related challenges, do feasibility check, and competitor analysis. The goal of these steps is to gather the requirement of the client and most importantly, find the purpose or objective of the software. This is a time-consuming part as we want to make sure we understand the client's thought process and their expectation from the products.
So I must say the scope of work plays a vital role in determining the time-frame, some client does not have a clear view of their future product, we help them with that. After this phase, the visualization part comes in where we translate an idea into designs (UI/UX). So by this stage, we become pretty much clear about the time frame of developing mobile application.
How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of a mobile application?
Each Mobile Application is different & so is the effort to develop it. It entirely depends on the functionalities that mobile application is having. On average, it takes 2-3 months to establish a fully-fledged mobile application, but sometimes it takes more if the application has lots of complex functionalities. We also developed and deployed a fully functional application in 20 days, it’s crazy, but we did that for our old client.
What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right platform for a mobile application?
First of all, we should consider the user requirements, their expectations from the application, target audience, and the objective of the application before selecting the platform. The platform that favors all the criteria mentioned should be chosen if the client does not have any constraints on the budget & timeline as they do affect the platform or technology to be selected.
Which platform do you suggest your clients, to begin with when they applicationroach you with an idea (Android or iOS) and why?
It entirely depends on the target audience & the revenue generation model. We have to figure out the platforms the viewer is using. For example, if the target audience is Asia, we should go with Android, whereas it is in the USA, we should go with iOS. Also, if the revenue model of the Application is subscription or membership, I recommend going with iOS.
It is recommended to launch applications on both the Android and iOS platforms if the client has enough time and budget.
Android or iOS, Native or Hybrid — which platform is best to use to build your application? What are your recommendations?
I shared my views about Android and iOS, regarding Native and Hybrid, we should consider the complexities of the application and client’s expectations. If the application does not have substantial features or animated related work, Hybrid application can be taken into account. Also, if the client wants MVP or Applications quick and in less budget, the hybrid is the right choice. If there is freedom of choosing any platform, I recommend Native Application.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of a mobile application?
One of the primary key factors is the Work-Scope( SOW) for that Mobile Application, here SOW referrers all the designing, development, APIs integration parts, etc. At the requirement gathering phase, we gauge the work-scope, and that is the base for cost.
Another critical factor is the Platform and technology chosen, are we going to build Application for Android or iOS or both? Are we using Native or Hybrid Application?
Third Key factor is design emphasis, how rich UI does client want? Is there any animation work involved?
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.)
We are open to Pay per hour, Pay per milestone, and Pay per resources model. When we have a fixed requirement and very less scope of changes, we calculate the cost and divide them into several milestones. Pay per hour model is useful when the client does not have a fixed requirement or wants to experiment or when it is a part of RnD.
Do you take in projects which meet your essential budget requirement? If yes, what is the minimum requirement? If no, on what minimum budget you have worked for?
We provide 30 minutes Free consultation to clients where we discuss the requirements and challenges etc. By that time we have a rough idea of the cost & we ask the client if there is any rough budget in their mind. Reason to query and set a minimum budget is that we take our work seriously and we want severe clients and budget of a client reflects it.
We accept the project for more than 5000 USD for Mobile Application Development.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2018?
6500 – 55000 USD is the price range of the projects which we have catered in 2018.
Which business model do you suggest to your clients, enabling them to generate revenue from mobile applicationlications? Why?
Again it varies from Applications to Applications; the client must have a revenue generation model in mind before the development process. Advertisement, Aggregation, could be the models, but the Idea behind the Application must have a generation model.
Kindly share your feedback on how Goodfirms has been doing so far in increasing your visibility among potential clients.
Goodfirms is a platform where the company can showcase its portfolios, expertise, interests, and client can pick their software partners from here. Our cooperation with Goodfirms has been very good for our business, and we hope to make the relation strong each day and year.
