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Fulcrum is a design & development agency focused on working with HealthTech startups. We build MVP & digital products for many startups from US & Europe, taking care of each product as if it’s our own.

Ukraine

Peremohy Ave 26, Kyiv, kyiv 4116

+17207920345

United States

30 North Gould Street, Ste R, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801

+17207920345

United Kingdom

32 Trehafod Road, Bethlehem, SP4 9XD

078 3844 5550

Service Focus

Focus of Software Development

Java - 20%
Javascript - 50%
Node.js - 30%

Industry Focus

Healthcare & Medical - 50%
Business Services - 10%
Education - 10%
Information Technology - 10%
Media - 10%
E-commerce - 10%

Client Focus

60% Small Business

40% Medium Business

Review Analytics of Fulcrum

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What Users Say

They’ve been a great help and we are able to finish the project on time.

Lookinar , CEO at Lookinar

Fulcrum provided us with high-quality development and great project communication.

Alexey Barinov , Co-founder / Director at KIFREEZ

Fulcrum Rocks understood what our app did and made the development process easy.

Gus Skarlis , President at Gus Skarlis

They are young and really engaged in both the tech and the solution created for us.

Jens Kristian Tøraasen , Founder at LastCall

Their communication skills and the processes they have in place are incredibly well suited to startups.

Bruno Haag , Co-founder & CEO at Hyfa

What Users Like The Most

What we loved most about Fulcrum was their ability to deliver exceptional results while being incredibly nice and professional to work with. They seamlessly brought our project to completion, ensuring a positive and enjoyable collaboration. Their expertise, combined with their friendly approach, made the entire experience truly remarkable.
We love the quality of their code. They made sure to create a scalable product that works smoothly. We really appreciated their open culture. In fact we visited their office & we were impressed by their friendly, creative environment in the office. Their ideas were great - we implemented them in the project. They suggested a few features and our client liked them.
They are young and really engaged in both the tech and the solution created for us. I feel that they are on our side in this. The ability to be confident in pricing is something I have never experienced before. I think the pre-project setup is very productive as long as you are able to keep agility in the project execution.

What Users Like The Least

We had such a positive experience with Fulcrum that there is honestly nothing we can think of that we liked the least.
Nothing comes to mind. They’ve been a great help and we are able to finish the project on time.
Difficult to do bigger changes in the middle of the project since we have more or less fixed the scope after the pre-project. I suggest having a buffer in the budget to use in case we find some bigger changes we want to do.

Detailed Reviews of Fulcrum

5.0 18 Reviews

Lookinar, CEO at Lookinar

Posted on Sep 13, 2023

They’ve been a great help and we are able to finish the project on time.

We hired Fulcrum to take on part of our project for our client. They helped us create a Backend renderer for a mobile VR app. The app helps to create 3D scenes with custom models and backend side renderer. We had a strict timeline so we wanted to involve help from outside. We knew Fulcrum before, so we contacted them. The project isn't released yet, but we are at the final stage now. And our client is satisfied with the progress and with the code quality.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Lookinar

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development

Describe your project in brief

Fulcrum provided development support in helping an AR/VR agency deliver a mobile app for one of their clients. They designed and created a backend that renders 3D visualizations.

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

We love the quality of their code. They made sure to create a scalable product that works smoothly. We really appreciated their open culture. In fact we visited their office & we were impressed by their friendly, creative environment in the office. Their ideas were great - we implemented them in the project. They suggested a few features and our client liked them.

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

Nothing comes to mind. They’ve been a great help and we are able to finish the project on time.

Rating Breakdown

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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000
In Progress
Information Technology

Alexey Barinov, Co-founder / Director at KIFREEZ

Posted on Sep 14, 2023

Fulcrum provided us with high-quality development and great project communication.

The main thing for us is that the client is happy with the design and the development work. Fulcrum created a scalable MVP, that’s just enough to be tested by the users. Project management is top-notch. The PM always kept us updated on the progress, they sent us regular reports and presented weekly demos.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Kifreez

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development

Describe your project in brief

Our long-term customer came to us with a request to develop an MVP for a mobile web. We have already worked on a number of projects with this client, but we decided to engage Fulcrum for this project, since they had a pretty nice offering for their MVP development service.

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

I find it pretty cool how they were able to develop a scalable, usable MVP under tight timelines, sacrificing none of the quality.

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

Fulcrum provided us with high-quality development and great project communication. I don’t see any particular areas for them to improve.

Rating Breakdown

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Schedule & Timing
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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000
In Progress
Information Technology

Gus Skarlis, President at Gus Skarlis

Posted on Sep 13, 2023

Fulcrum Rocks understood what our app did and made the development process easy.

Their deliverables satisfied requirements. Fulcrum Rocks facilitated an effortless development process. The team communicated well and had quick response times.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

GusSkarlis

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development

Describe your project in brief

My company hired Fulcrum Rocks to build out our mobile application. We researched vendors for about forty-five days before we selected Fulcrum Rocks.Fulcrum Rocks connected our web platform to our mobile app via API calls.My team worked with a project manager and three developers. Their communicative nature and quick response times met our needs.

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

Fulcrum Rocks understood what our app did and made the development process easy.

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

The deadlines could’ve been tighter.

Rating Breakdown

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Schedule & Timing
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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000
Completed
Startups

Jens Kristian Tøraasen, Founder at LastCall

Posted on Sep 13, 2023

They are young and really engaged in both the tech and the solution created for us.

First of all, we would never have had a new site if we were to do it our self since we don't have the time and resources. In addition we needed someone we could trust as we have a very strong, personal ownership to our startup. As of project completion, we have not deployed the site yet, but the feedback from testers and focus groups indicate that the new site will serve its purpose.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Last Call

What service was provided as part of the project?

Web Development

Describe your project in brief

Fulcrum created a new landing page for a website based on provided requirements. This involved creating a wireframe and then implementing agile design and development.

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

They are young and really engaged in both the tech and the solution created for us. I feel that they are on our side in this. The ability to be confident in pricing is something I have never experienced before. I think the pre-project setup is very productive as long as you are able to keep agility in the project execution.

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

Difficult to do bigger changes in the middle of the project since we have more or less fixed the scope after the pre-project. I suggest having a buffer in the budget to use in case we find some bigger changes we want to do.

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Schedule & Timing
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Project Detail

Completed
Art, Entertainment & Music

Bruno Haag, Co-founder & CEO at Hyfa

Posted on Sep 13, 2023

Their communication skills and the processes they have in place are incredibly well suited to startups.

So far, Fulcrum has worked accurately, and the app they developed has received positive external feedback. The team's thorough QA process allows them to identify and fix bugs before the production phase. On top of having well-structured processes, they are committed to fulfilling business needs.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Hyfa

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development

Describe your project in brief

After going through a discovery phase, Fulcrum worked almost completely from scratch to develop a React Native, cross-platform iOS and Android app that features direct in-app links to various niche products.

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

Their communication skills and the processes they have in place are incredibly well suited to startups. The team really gets what we are trying to do. They understand that we have massive time constraints and that this product is our baby. Their processes are brilliant, and they communicate incredibly actively. Those are their two main strengths.

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

No, I have no suggestions. I would really be scraping the barrel if I answered this question. There are always areas people can improve but, to be honest, I really can’t complain because they’ve done a great job.

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Schedule & Timing
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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000
Completed
Social

Orly Tomer, CEO at Dee Dee Diamonds

Posted on Sep 13, 2023

Fulcrum’s flexibility, which is especially suitable for a startup like us.

Fulcrum has managed to deliver a top-notch e-commerce site within the deadline. Their flexible and client-centric approach allows them to accommodate changes and additions to the project's scope and requirements. They remain professional, proactive, and punctual to ensure an efficient workflow.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Dee Dee Diamonds

What service was provided as part of the project?

Web Development

Describe your project in brief

Fulcrum was hired by an online jewelry retailer to develop an e-commerce site. The team has initially prepared a product requirements document before working on the site's development.

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

First and foremost, we were impressed by Fulcrum’s flexibility, which is especially suitable for a startup like us. Their approach worked very well for us and it was totally pro-client. Overall, the website development was professional, proactive, and on schedule. It was more than we expected. For us – a startup that faces lots of unknown issues and problems – Fulcrum was a stable point in this project in terms of the development & following the timelines.

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

They did their job with great professionalism and made us happy with the website they built. So far, I don’t see any considerable areas of improvement for Fulcrum.

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Schedule & Timing
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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000
Completed
E-commerce

Øyvind O. Holm-Johnsen , Co-founder and Managing Director at Kör

Posted on Sep 13, 2023

Fulcrum is eager to get the job done and they are a lot faster than other development teams.

We decided to engage Fulcrum on a pre-project to map out all of our needs and essentially start the full specification of what we needed to start operating and start building. We had a four-day workshop with them where we agreed on what they should start building.

We worked in Figma, so they prepared the mock-ups and wireframes and we approved them and made any changes together. We have worked together for nine months now so they have quite a good idea of our long-term product vision. It is quite simple for us to communicate on new features and improvements.

In terms of development, Fulcrum built React Native apps for iOS and Android for the driving students, and they also built an iOS app for the driving instructors. With the student app, the student can arrange all the different driving lessons. They don’t choose the instructor, but they choose the timeslot, and then the system will assign them an instructor.

They select the pickup address, so they use both a calendar for booking as well as a Google Maps API for selecting the pickup address. Then the booking is forwarded and added to the instructor’s calendar.

They connected all the APIs. It is hosted on AWS, and they used SendGrid for the email confirmations before and after the lesson, as well as the Twilio API to send SMS and texts. They also integrated a European payment provider to charge payments and built our admin dashboard. We also have a simple but not constantly evolving analytics dashboard so we can see how the users interact with our app.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Kör

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development

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

First of all, for us in Norway, it is quite expensive to contract both developers and PMs, so the price is important for us because we are also a new company and we don’t have a lot of money to throw around and especially not to waste. Pricing wise, they are very good. They have a very good product vision, and they share our long-term goals. They are a young team, and I think they are hungrier than a lot of other developers that we talked to, especially compared to the local developers that we talked to. Fulcrum is eager to get the job done and they are a lot faster than other development teams.

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

Not really. We haven’t had any situations where we needed to straighten them out so to speak. I don’t have any experience working with other remote teams like Fulcrum, so my comparison bar is not the best. From other people I have talked to who also worked with them, they seem quite happy. I am not sure what could have been done better or differently.

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Project Detail

$200000+
Completed
Education

Florian Haussmann, Partner/CTO at artsnext GmbH

Posted on Sep 06, 2023

The thing that impressed me was the level of quality control and testing that they applied on their side.

Fulcrum delivered a working MVP platform. The thing that impressed me was the level of quality control and testing that they applied on their side. We went through a rather extensive testing of all use cases. Compared to previous experiences I’ve had, and given our shoestring budget, there was very little that didn’t work. They have a very good process for making sure that what they specify and the changes that come up are fully regression-tested. Another helpful thing is that they’ve been incredibly responsive in terms of dealing with small bugs that came up on the weekend or other times outside of the agreed-upon response times.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Vuc.it

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development

Describe your project in brief

Fulcrum developed a web platform with JavaScript, React, and AngularJS. Following a discovery phase, they developed the MVP with user and admin interfaces. They did thorough testing and remain on retainer.

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

Their internal quality control process sets them apart. I assume they have the size to also tackle bigger projects. They have sufficient resources to add an extra developer when things get tight. They keep all of these resources together.

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

For some of our questions, I wish the project manager had more technical expertise. There were many things she had to take back to the team. It wasn’t a problem; she just couldn’t give me immediate answers. I got the sense that she didn’t have a technical background, but it was okay in the end. As long as she had project management in her control, it was fine.

Rating Breakdown

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Schedule & Timing
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Project Detail

$50001 to $200000
In Progress
Education

Tor Goffer, Managing Director at HOER LIVE

Posted on Jun 06, 2023

Efficient and Lean: Fulcrum Delivers Exceptional Results with a Cost-Effective Approach

Our experience with Fulcrum was exceptional. They showcased professionalism, expertise, and a genuinely nice approach. They delivered outstanding results within our budget, creating a visually captivating and user-friendly website. Fulcrum's cost-effective strategies ensured we received great value for our investment. Their friendly and open communication made the process enjoyable. We highly recommend Fulcrum for their exceptional services in delivering impressive websites within a limited budget.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

HOER.LIVE

What service was provided as part of the project?

Software Development

Describe your project in brief

An electronic music platform broadcasting DJ sets, and Live acts 6 days a week

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

What we loved most about Fulcrum was their ability to deliver exceptional results while being incredibly nice and professional to work with. They seamlessly brought our project to completion, ensuring a positive and enjoyable collaboration. Their expertise, combined with their friendly approach, made the entire experience truly remarkable.

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

We had such a positive experience with Fulcrum that there is honestly nothing we can think of that we liked the least.

Rating Breakdown

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Schedule & Timing
Communication
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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000
Completed
Art, Entertainment & Music

Lauren Hanson, Head of Product, flipMD at GoodRx

Posted on Dec 22, 2022

Fulcrum has exceptional communication, professionalism, design and development experience. Would highly recommend!

I've worked with Fulcrum on three products so far (two low-budget MVPs and a fully scalable marketplace product) and all of my interactions and our work together have been efficient, high producing, and complimented by all of our users.

Everything from the client onboarding work to the discovery and requirements gathering phase, to the timeline and design work to the final development follows a very professional and optimal process to give the right communication and thought partnership across the business and technical teams. I highly recommend Fulcrum for all of your software and app development needs.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

flipMD MVP to Full Product from scratch

What service was provided as part of the project?

Software Development

Describe your project in brief

Launch a two sided marketplace (web) for physicians to find nonclinical consulting gigs in the US.

flipMD (acquired by GoodRx) is a competitive marketplace where physicians can source and secure consulting side gig jobs coming from a broad range of clients across all major industries that need medical experts in their line of work. Clients set the parameters or their jobs, including a fixed-rate budget or hourly rate, to get bids from interested consultants. Consultants are hired for work based on credentials and availability. Collaboration is made easier through messaging tools. Payment and bookkeeping is made simpler and more secure through online money transfer at the point of hire, and release of funds upon approval of work.

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

Thoroughness in communication, documentation and following best practices for design and development.

Commitment to keeping timelines and budget requirements that align with the business objectives.

A willingness to dive deeper into the strategy of the business, user experience, revenue and branding goals beyond the technical requests sent.

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

Nothing, they are honestly that good, they take feedback and critique very well if you ever need to course-correct.

Rating Breakdown

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Schedule & Timing
Communication
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Project Detail

$50001 to $200000
In Progress

Ilan Vinner, CEO at at New ProImage

Posted on Jan 27, 2022

Professional design and development services. Excellent project management and precise timeline

Professional design and development services. Excellent project management and precise timeline for the project. Good relationship with the team that contribute to the success of the project

What service was provided as part of the project?

Software Development

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

Flexibility with new features and accurate timeline for the project

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

In some cases the QA quality was not as expected

Rating Breakdown

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Company Response

Fulcrum

Hi Illan, Thank you so much for your nice review and kind words! We are excited to work with New ProImage.

Posted on Jun 23, 2022

Itamar Brezner, Self Employed - Co-founder at of Facecheck

Posted on Sep 21, 2021

Working with the designer is great, everything is on time and the quality of work is spot on.

We hired Fulcrum based on recommendations to design a website for our product. Currently still in progress of the design. So far the communication with the designer and Fulcrum team is excellent and easy. Working with the designer is great, everything is on time and the quality of work is spot on. Would definitely recommend.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

Designing a website

What service was provided as part of the project?

Web Designing (UI/UX)

Rating Breakdown

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Schedule & Timing
Communication
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Project Detail

In Progress

Company Response

Fulcrum

Itamar, we really appreciate your feedback & hope for long and fruitful collaboration :)

Posted on Sep 22, 2021

Vik Yeremenko, Co-Founder at at CliqBird

Posted on Aug 20, 2021

Design & development of a website

Fulcrum designed & developed a website for one of our projects. At the moment, our client had problems with low conversion & sales, so we recommended Fulcrum and they performed a UX audit. The client was so impressed by the insights Fulcrum presented after the audit, that we eventually decided to continue with further website redesign & development. In the end, Fulcrum delivered an appealing website built on React.

During our partnership, Fulcrum managed to render all the features the client required in the website, still making it user-friendly and stylish. The development went really smoothly too, our client was satisfied with the project itself and mentioned great growth in conversion after the website was released. Great job!

What service was provided as part of the project?

Web Development, Web Designing (UI/UX)

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

Communication with clients on the top level. The way that they worked in-house is great, always meet the deadlines and provide additional talks if you don't understand something from a technology implementation view.

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

Nothing, everything is great!

Rating Breakdown

Quality
Schedule & Timing
Communication
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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000

Company Response

Fulcrum

Viktor, thanks for the feedback. We're happy to be your partner!

Posted on Aug 20, 2021

Oleh Hlovatskiy, CEO at SOFTUUP

Posted on Jun 01, 2021

The results of their work are impressive!

We hired Fulcrum to help us develop UI/UX for several mobile apps we’re working on at the moment. Overall, these were several separate projects which included discovery & design stages each.

So far, the results of their work are impressive – we’re receiving positive feedback only regarding apps’ UI/UX. Users are enjoying the apps.
Working on the projects with Fulcrum appeared to be a pleasant & productive experience. They always knew what they did & did it the best way. Especially, I liked how smooth their design service is. They always considered our business needs to provide the designs which suit us best.

What was the project name that you have worked with Fulcrum?

UI/UX design for mobile apps

What service was provided as part of the project?

Web Designing (UI/UX)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
Schedule & Timing
Communication
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Project Detail

In Progress

Company Response

Fulcrum

Oleh, thank you for sharing your feedback. We are always happy to deliver high-quality service to our partners.

Posted on Aug 19, 2021

Bruno Haag, Co-Founder at at Hyfa

Posted on Jul 27, 2020

Mobile App Project

After having trouble with our previous agency, we moved over to working with Fulcrum and quickly noticed a world of difference. They are consummate professionals with a clear ability to work with startups. We truly feel as though they're part of the team now and intend to continue working with them into the future.

What service was provided as part of the project?

Mobile App Development, Web Development

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

React Native apps, design skills, project management style

Rating Breakdown

Quality
Schedule & Timing
Communication
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Project Detail

$10001 to $50000

Company Response

Fulcrum

Hugo, thank you for such feedback. We are happy to work on great projects together with our customers!

Posted on Aug 19, 2021

Client Portfolio of Fulcrum

Project Industry

Media - 4.3%
Healthcare & Medical - 13.0%
Automotive - 4.3%
Gaming - 4.3%
Education - 13.0%
Business Services - 4.3%
Financial & Payments - 8.7%
Information Technology - 13.0%
E-commerce - 4.3%
Social - 13.0%
Productivity - 4.3%
Art, Entertainment & Music - 8.7%
Transportation & Logistics - 4.3%

Major Industry Focus

Healthcare & Medical

Project Cost

$10001 to $50000 - 56.5%
$100001 to $500000 - 17.4%
$500000+ - 4.3%
$50001 to $100000 - 17.4%
$0 to $10000 - 4.3%

Common Project Cost

$10001 to $50000

Project Timeline

1 to 25 Weeks - 87.0%
26 to 50 Weeks - 13.0%

Project Timeline

1 to 25 Weeks

Clients: 6

Zuri Fertility
Merecedes-Benz Ukraine
Bloss
BUFF
British American Tobacco
flipMD

Portfolios: 23

Hör - Berlin Streaming DJ platform

HÖR is an independent online music platform & collective and cultural community space based in Berlin-Kreuzberg founded in 2019.

Launched firstly as a Berlin-based online radio station, HÖR increased its profile significantly amid the COVID-19 pandemic with a number of DJs passing through its unique bathroom-like studio setting to play live-streamed sets.

Features:
1. DJ Library
2. Calendar
3. Hör Shop
4. Live Search
5. Chat, Comment, Share

Main Tech Stack:
FrontEnd: JS, CSS, CSS Modules, jQuery.js
BackEnd: PHP, MySQL
Integrations: Woo-Commerce, Stripe, Rank Math SEO, Flamingo, Contact Form, Classic Editor, W3 Total Cache, Social Login, ACF PRO

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/hor/

Web App

NextStop - Healthcare platform for relocation

NextStop is a US-based platform for relocating physicians & their families where they can search for realtors, educators & mortgage lenders, communicate directly, and access helpful materials for free.

We have built:
1. An interactive map
2. Subscriptions functionality
3. Easy navigation
4. Analytics dashboard
5. Payments & payment history
6. Security system

Main Tech Stack:
- Node.js
- React
- Redux
- TypeScript & more

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/nextstop/

Web App

FlipMD - Healthcare Marketplace for Doctors

FlipMD is an open, competitive marketplace of physicians offering their consulting services to a wide range of clients seeking medical expertise.

During the project, we:

1. Rebuilt the old website from the scratch into a new one leaving most of the existing functionality intact;
2. Enhanced website experience by overhauling the UI/UX and adding custom-built features on top of it;
3. Performed smooth data migration to a new website.

Tech Stack:

Back-end: Node.js, Nest, TypeORM, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Redis, Forest Admin

Front-end: Redux, React, Next.js

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/flipmd/

Web App

Mercedes Benz - Website Redesign & Development

Mercedes-Benz Ukraine wanted to update its old website. After detailed market & competitor research, we offered a solution that perfectly met stakeholders’ business needs.

We've created a custom car dealer website design that reduces the amount of time to maintain it, is more user-friendly for customers, and increases user trust.

After the design was approved, we started the development stage to create the functionality needed. Now, it has numerous must-have features and elements for the best car dealer website!

Inside the app, customers are able to:

- use filters to find a car;

- request a test drive;

- compare car models;

- use a credit calculator;

- order spare parts;

- read the news and promotions;

- manage content manually via the admin panel (for website administrators).

Tech Stack:

Backend: PHP, Laravel, MYSQL

Frontend: HTML 5, JS

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/mercedes/

Web App

BUFF - Loyalty Program for Gamers

BUFF is a gaming reward platform. It's bounded with the most famous MMOG and MMORPG API’s, such us: CS:GO, GTA, Cash Royal, Minecraft and much more. This is a unique platform where you can play all these games but also earn, simply just for playing.

The app has its own coin-economy, reward system and marketplace.

Started as an MVP today BUFF is the real market player with millions of users worldwide and thousands of transactions daily. Becoming Israel’s first company that entered IPO, BUFF already partnered with Overwolf, LEGO, Hulu, Alienware, and Monster Energy.

Main Tech Stack:
- Node.js
- React
- Redux
- TypeScript & more

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/buff-case

Web App

Bloss - an education platform for parents

Bloss is an education and lifestyle platform that helps parents and parents-to-be with starting a family and raising their little ones, whilst enabling experts to grow their business. Its mission is to connect people to a one stop shop of credible, trusted and user rated professionals across their entire journey (from TTC, pregnancy and parenting from baby to a teenager).

Inside Bloss, users can:

1. Easily search for hand-picked, user rated & reviewed professional experts

2. Book video call & in-person appointments with calendar integration

3. View informative & inspiring content from the experts via articles, video and audio

4. Access premium content: downloadable courses, planners and routines

5. Communicate in community chat forum & interact with other parents and experts

6. Buy recommend products in the shop

Tech stack:
Frontend: HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JS, GULP
Backend: PHP, MYSQL

Integrations: WooCommerce, PayPal, Stripe, GA, bbPress, Yoast SEO, Advanced Custome Fields, Easy Bookings

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/bloss/

Web App

Launch - digital matchmaking platform

Launch is a matchmaking platform that focuses on connecting new graduates & young professionals with their dream employer. All exciting events, internships, and entry-level jobs in just one digital platform. To launch talent into the business world!

Features:
1. Smooth onboarding process
2. Personal profile with user’s achievements and skills;
3. Smart matching algorithm;
4. Simple & fast application process;
5. Ability to track all applications, messages and recommended jobs;
6. In-app messaging to let employers connect with the candidates they like within the platform

Tech Stack:

Backend: Node.js, Typescript, Moleculer, PostgreSQL, Redis, NATS, Apollo GraphQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Elasticsearch + Fluentd + Kibana (EFK) log stack, Auth0
Web: React, Apollo GraphQL
Mobile: React Native, Apollo GraphQL
Cloud: GCP, GCP GKE, GCP Storage Bucket, GCP CloudSQL, GCP Memorystore

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/launch-case

Web App

Kör – educational app for drivers

Kör is an online platform in Norway that enables booking driving programs & lessons online, tracking students’ progress as well as allows family and friends to be involved in the process.

Inside Kör, users can:

1. Track their progress, lessons they have completed & the number of upcoming lessons

2. Add/edit information to the trip, see weather conditions, time & date of the trip, track the skills

3. Pay for the driving program/lesson via in-app payment system

4. Choose among around 20 various services and lesson types for students

5. Add companions and let them see student’s progress and feedback from the driving instructor

Tech stack:
Front-end: React Native, Redux, JavaScript

Back-end: Node.js, Nest, MongoDB, Redis, Firebase

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/kor-case

Web App

Fin.peace – marketplace for managing financial assets

We’ve created a web insurance marketplace* that makes managing insurance deals much easier and more efficient. Inside it, users can explore the policy’s quality & profitability, purchase safely and generate better revenues.

Project Outcomes:

1. Secure & effective marketplace

2. MVP to get user feedback

3. Web platform, which supports 2 roles: Sellers and Buyers

4. Admin panel for users, companies, and assets management

5. Landing page to introduce the platform

Platform functionality

- authorization

- marketplace

- bids & purchases

- servicing dashboard

- in-platform communication

- reporting system

Main Tech Stack:
- Node.js
- React
- Redux
- TypeScript & more

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/fin-peace/

Web App

VUC^it – digital coach for employees

VUC^it is a digital coach that strengthens your social, emotional, and creative skills to master remote work. Based on users’ onboarding and testing, it offers you personalized tasks & challenges to achieve progress faster.

Features:

1. Registration via social media (FB, LinkedIn, Apple account)
2. Personalized onboarding during which users’ skills are evaluated
3. Challenges are formed taking into account users’ skills
4. Tasks (VUC^its) within the challenges can be both individual & shared with other users/community
5. Users can work on tasks together with the friends inviting them via dynamic link
6. Users can read feedback on the tasks from other users’ & leave theirs
7. Progress tracking that allows users to track their success

Tech Stack:

Back-End: Node.js, Nest.js, TypeScript, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Redis, GCP, Docker
Front-End: React, React Hooks, React Native, React Navigation, Typescript, Redux, i18next, Material-UI, Recharts

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/vucit/

Web App

New ProImage - platform for publishers

New ProImage is a leading solutions developer of innovative Newspaper and Magazine Production workflow, color management & other products. The company has developed solutions for publishers and printers for over 25 years.

For New ProImage we developed an intuitive platform for renting publishing equipment. Now their clients can view detailed reports on any production server, for any given time period.

Main Tech Stack:
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Nest.js

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/newproimage/

Web App

Glo

Website Redesign & UX Research for Glo

Started as a Discovery for glo mobile app, we also made a UX research of glo website for its further redesign & took focus on PWA instead. Why? At that moment, PWA was the most efficient way to fix product's current pains & boost its performance.

8 types of research:

1. Competitors & Market

2. GA & Website

3. PWA vs Mobile App

4. Benchmark & Telegram Bot

5. Find a specialist

After the website redesign, the customers noticed a 400% increase in revenue (online sales)

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/glo/

Web App

Reechr – Social Network to Connect People

Reechr is a geolocalized social network that helps people to connect with each other both online and offline based on their shared interests and location.

It enables instantaneous and low-commitment interactions via chat, group chat, geolocalized events, content sharing & even offline meetings.

Features:

- Smooth onboarding allows users to learn an app’s functionality faster

- User-friendly and simple signup & login procedures

- Users can add their areas of interest to personal profiles

- Based on their interests, users can create local & dynamic communities

- Reechr users can share & visualize their content

- Users can discuss their passions with others via messages

- Even better, you can meet and befriend other Reechr members offline

- Users can create and organize events & invite their community to join

Tech Stack:

Mobile app: React Native, Typescript, Redux, Socket.io, i18next

Integrations: Google Maps , Google Places, Google Geocoding, Google AdMob, Mixpanel, Firebase, Google cloud platform (GCP), Mongoose atlas

Back-end stack: node.js, typescript, nest.js, mongodb, redis, docker, kubernates, jsonwebtoken, swagger

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/reechr/

Play Store

Plannly – App for Planning Social Events

Plannly allows users to plan their social gatherings & events in 3 simple steps.

In short, its customers can easily plan Where (location/venue), When (date/time) and What (type of event) they want to do. Then, users just send an invite to a guest via a url in under 60 seconds.

Features:

- quick & simple on boarding to teach users

- smooth & user-friendly sign up and log in

- calendar for personalized & universal events

- functionality to choose the type of the event users are planning

- a convenient location auto-population feature to pick the venue

- the app syncs up to Google & hand-delivers the best places within a 15 mile-radius

- universal & personalized link sharing

- detailed overview for each event

Tech Stack:

FrontEnd: React

Mobile: React Native

BackEnd: Nest, Node.js, Mongo DB, Redis, Firebase, GCP, Typescript, Docker, Kubernetes, AuthO

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/projects/plannly/

Play Store App Store

GraphoMED - healthcare database & reports

GraphoMed is a database of medical information including medical stats, institutions, researches & more. It generates beautiful charts & dashboards upon request, whenever you need to access the required information.

The healthcare data is generated in FHIR standard & available in 6 European countries.

We prepared a well-detailed and modern UI solution for a web app, providing interaction with healthcare data in FHIR format, created on the client's side.

Technologies (Front-end): TypeScript, React, Redux, React Router Dom, React-google-map, Supercluster, React-jvectormap, ChartJs, Strapi, React-table

Web App

Calendar.ai

Calendar.AI is a calendar app and appointment scheduler that supercharges your meetings with insights about the people and companies you meet. View work history, social profiles, news and more. Save hours scheduling meetings with your own scheduling assistant.

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Hyfa

Hyfa is a social network for shoppers. It's like Instagram. You can share & tag your favorite products online for your friends & entire world to see.

Hyfa is built on React Native working seamlessly on both Android & iOS.

Check out our case study: https://fulcrum.rocks/hyfa-case

Play Store App Store

SubbXI

Subbxi is an ultimate captioning tool. This is a complex web application where you can create, edit, import and export subtitles. The whole platform is the beginning of the “Photoshop” but in a web form.

SubbXi has a strong app architecture. The back-end part of the project was the biggest challenge, which we dealt with successfully.

Web App

Lastcall - web application for events

Web application (marketplace) for the event business with the ability to place the events needed as a business and also to order and book tickets for those events as an end-customer. The web platform ability is wider for the business side, for the user comfort, there is a mobile application development planned.

Front-end stack: React, Redux, Next.js, Firebase

Web App

Ludwig - UX audit & redesign for a machine learning company

The web platform Ludwig needed a critical UX audit and design rework of their existing web pages. They also wanted to add some new features without overloading the platform's existing functionality.

Web App

Cybersenshi - advanced cybersecurity platform

This web app is able to check and prevent data loss from your web resource. It imitates the different types of cyberattacks right up to your web resource and provides you the reports about where and how the data thieves might steal your or your customers’ data.

Front-end stack: React, Getsby, Redux

Back-end stack: Node.js, PostgresSQL, Moleculer.js, Docker, Redis, AWS, AWS ECS

Web App

Chaincreator Exchange - crypto-exchange platform

A web app where you can exchange the most popular digital assets and also list your own tokens to increase the market share. The most popular trading pairs included, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, LiteCoin, EOS, and much more. Secure app environment, ability to trade your coins for the fiat, and low fee for transactions.

Front-end stack: React, Vue
Back-end stack: Node.Js

Web App

Scoob-E

Using electro-bikes in the city without really having one was never so easy before. Just open the app, find the nearest spot, click and ride! It feels so good, especially in a nice summer mood… Thus we hope we make a good contribution to Austria’s ecology and help to make the socially responsible business grow. Combo!

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Executive Interview of Fulcrum

Ihor Prokopenko

CEO & Co-Founder

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Kindly share your feedback on how GoodFirms has been doing so far in increasing your visibility among potential clients.

I would say that we have not yet observed some really dramatic influence of GoodFirms on increasing visibility among our potential clients. Yet, I believe that GoodFirms is a great channel to raise awareness about the company and illustrate our expertise and reputation of a reliable outsourcing partner.

Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?

I’m a Co-Founder and CEO at Fulcrum. Fulcrum is an offshore, in-house agency. We build mobile & web apps that win users’ hearts.

What was the idea behind starting this organization?

For me, outsourcing is not just about a good price, but also about deeper expertise. It’s about one common purpose - to achieve success.
I believe that in future outsourcing will be based on sharing both risks and results. I see it as a way to find your technical partner that wants and does the best for your business: finds a perfect team, offers top-notch solutions and supports you till your full success.

That’s what I founded Fulcrum for. We help entrepreneurs achieve their goals. By always being there for them. By having all the technical issues on us. Simply by becoming a reliable technical partner, who cares about their product 24/7.

What are your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?

Fulcrum is an outsourcing software development company. We’re offshore, in-house agency.

How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?

As I’ve already mentioned, outsourcing is the best suitable option for many companies and startups which need a reliable and experienced technical partner. It’s much more about efficiency and the most optimal expertise/cost ratio. Outsourcing allows companies to solve their business problems with the help of experienced specialists. I also believe that outsourcing model will become even more widespread in future, since in its core will be the responsibility for both client’s success and risks.

What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive? If yes, what ratio of clients has been repetitive to you?

Industries we usually cater to include business automatization, streaming (video processing), on-demand delivery, high-load systems, cloud solutions, gaming, cybersecurity, marketplaces, and social networks. We also thinking about entering healthcare industry, since under the load of current challenges it requires new IT solutions. Our customers are repetitive. To be more precise, our ratio of repetitive clients is 80%.

Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a mobile app.

App’s functionality. We do the mind-map, estimation to see how long the project will take.

How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of a mobile app?

All depends on the app. It’s really hard to tell you some time period on spot.

What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right platform for a mobile application?

Industry, user portrait, the place where the app is used (at home, on the road, e.g).

Which platform do you suggest your clients to begin with when they approach you with an idea (Android or iOS) and why?

We recommend cross-platform apps.

Android or iOS, Native or Hybrid — which platform is best to use to build your app? What are your recommendations?

Hybrid is better since the development process is faster.

What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of a mobile application?

We mainly consider the scope of work required to provide a certain service, deadlines and time cost of the Fulcrum specialists 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.)

In Fulcrum, we offer 32 main payment models:
1. Fixed price. Client pays a set price for the project.
2. Time & Material. The team works on an hourly rate.

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?

We’re working on the projects starting for $5,000+.

What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2019?

In 2019, the price range of projects was $5K-100K.

Which business model do you suggest to your clients enabling them to generate revenue from mobile applications? Why?

One more time I would stress that outsourcing seems to be the most optimal model right now and in the future. It provides business with a reliable technical partner who offers their expertise 24/7.