datarockets
We caredatarockets is a product development company consisting of 35 in-house developers working remotely from Canada and Eastern Europe. Founded in 2014, datarockets have developed 40+ high-quality and scalable custom applications and software for startups and medium-sized businesses.
datarockets builds long term relationships with clients based on trust and honesty, which transitions product development into a fast, easy, and fun process.
The primary tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, React, Node.js, React Native, Java, Kotlin, Swift. Read about our Capabilities.
datarockets works in different areas no matter if it’s a ridesharing service or a tool for personal growth. The main condition for us is to believe in the products we are working on. datarockets is passionate about working closely with clients and growing their businesses together.
Check out our Instagram profile where we share our life moments and our blog containing business and technical posts.
Contact us if you are looking to build a startup from scratch or expand an existing team.
Company Approach
- Agile Development
We communicate every day to adapt to all changes quickly, so you don’t need to write long project specifications. - Transparency
With real-time task boards and public communication channels, you will be able to keep track of any updates and changes. We are a transparent development team - Automation
We automate routine work to deliver completed features immediately that saves your time and budget. - Quality
We take responsibility for code quality, to ensure flexibility to changes and scalability in the future.
- Software Development
- Mobile App Development
- IT Services
- IoT Development
- Medium Business($10M - $1B)
- Large Business(> $1B)
- Small Business(< $10M)
- Productivity
- Startups
- Advertising & Marketing
- Business Services
- Healthcare & Medical
- Information Technology
- Retail
- Transportation & Logistics
Reliable and enthusiastic engineers
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
I like that the developers feel as if they part of my team and behave like they want the project to succeed as much as I do.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
So far there has not been one concern I've raised or change I've requested that has not been rapidly addressed.
Speedy, communicative, and brilliant!
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Halacracy. Radical transparency. Communication. Collaboration. Capabilities. Business acumen.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Scale up so you can take on more clients and projects!
An absolute pleasure
Working with DataRockets was an absolute pleasure. It was incredibly enjoyable - I most appreciated their responsiveness, their quality of work, and most importantly -- collaboratively problem solving with them.
They had tried-and-true processes that kept communication open. Tools and organization that made it easy for us to track work and discuss tasks. It was so effective that I adopted some of those processes in my day-to-day PM role. They are truly entrepreneurial-minded, so it was nice to be able to bounce ideas and have other bright minds thinking ahead on potential challenges or opportunities.
I would highly recommend and would not hesitate to work with them again.
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
The people
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
The expertise are so vast, I wish I could get access to more of their team, but alas, it's always a question of time and money.
Great supportive team!
Solid service with great results
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Deep technical knowledge in Salesforce.
Great Firm
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Development Culture
Working with DataRockets has been excellent
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Communication Management Dev team structure
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Costs are high compared to competitors.

- Define the future of the company by researching new business opportunities
- Give product strategy advice to our customers
- Try to share our knowledge writing articles about startups and product development
- the lack of transparency. Typical outsourcing companies were trying to “build a fence” between their developers and clients with the help of project managers.
- indifferent attitude towards the success of their projects. Our managers were more concerned about clients paying their bills rather than our ideas on how to improve things around.
- unwillingness to invest in the personal growth of their engineering teams. We were working in a typical corporate culture embracing overtimes and trying to squeeze as much as possible from their employees.
- We integrate closely with our clients and work with them as a single team using extremely transparent development process
- We communicate a lot and share our ideas on how to make things faster/better.
- Our company organizes tech conferences across Europe, and our engineers perform there as speakers.
- FinTech
- Ride Sharing
- Entertainment
- Social Media
- Social Network
- Real Estate
- Human Resources
- SaaS
- Marketing
- IoT
- Functional business requirements. What kind of features we need to build and how they actually help the users.
- Technical business requirements. For example, if we need Internet Explorer browser support, it can add some extra work.
- Product strategy. Before taking on a project, we need to believe in the idea behind it as well as its strategy. We need to know why exactly we build a certain feature to share our insights and suggest improvements.
- Marketing strategy. Nowadays, marketing matters even more than development, and we need to ensure that our prospective clients are aware of that. We need to know their marketing strategy to suggest our own ideas and share relevant experience.
- Budget. Depending on the budget, we can offer alternative technology stack or suggest our vision on the scope of work/priorities.
- Legacy Code. If a project is not from scratch, we need to perform an initial code review to assess its current state and provide estimates based on what has been done already.
- Common use cases. Every framework/technology is aimed to resolve a particular class of tasks, and you need to be aware of that. For example, it’s possible to develop a simple website & blog with C++, but with Wordpress, it’s gonna be 1000 times faster.
- Technical limitations. Each framework has its own limits and they need to match your technical business requirements. Otherwise, at some point, you will need to switch to another framework, which can be extremely expensive.
- Flexibility. At some point, you may need to make a strategic pivot and be sure your current framework can handle that.
- Ecosystem. When using a popular framework with a highly developed ecosystem, you almost always can find an open source library that does exactly what you need. For example, the Ruby ecosystem has thousands of open-source libraries that you can plug & play. That significantly cuts down the total cost and timeline.
- License. Not every framework is free, and some of them are authorized to be used in certain conditions.
- Community. Your development team should be able to find the necessary information fairly easy. Moreover, there should be a community behind the framework which is able to answer questions, fix bugs, and patch security breaches as they get discovered.
- Ruby / Rails
- Javascript / Node.js
- React.js
- Vue.js.
- React Native
- Kotlin
- Swift
- They fit our needs the best. The technologies listed above give enough flexibility and at the same time, speed up web/mobile app development.
- Our team has the most experience with them and enjoy using those languages/frameworks.
- We break down the scope of work into User Stories and sort them based on their priorities
- We work on the User Stories iteratively based on their priority.
- We release new functionality as soon as it’s ready, sometimes we make multiple releases per week.
- Providing estimates on fixed price projects development teams have to lie. If they provide positive estimates - their companies inevitably lose money. If negative - they kinda lie to their clients.
- After a fixed price project is signed, the client has no flexibility as the scope of work is fixed for that price. Requesting even a minor feature turns into the bureaucracy hell when project managers need to re-assess the scope of work, get updated estimates from the team, and re-sign the budget agreement. We strongly believe that it’s a waste of everyone’s time.
- There is not enough freedom for teams working on fixed price projects. Engineers don’t have time to suggest their ideas, improve processes and automate routine work. Such atmosphere embraces poor productivity, low-quality code, and reluctant attitude to the project in general.