MWDN Ltd.

All our employees are located in our offices in the two largest cities in Ukraine – Kyiv, and Kharkiv. We do use third party vendors if our customers require some on-demand part-time services such as DevOps or some expertise that we do not have in-house.

The main difference in our approach is transparency. We prefer to share as many details with both team members and the customers as possible to make sure we do not have any misunderstanding in our future cooperation. Our business model is very straightforward and allows us not to hide anything and make sure that in the same time our team members get compatible within the market salary and in the same time our customers save costs on hiring the team members abroad with us.

Our customers come from different industries, but all of them have one thing in common– need of experts in specific areas. While working with few quite famous companies, we got significant expertise in the transportation field including on-demand taxi services, fleet management, and cargo security. We have built several messengers and social platforms, and our healthcare expertise includes radiology and cardiology fields. Every year we gain new experience while working on new ideas that come from our new customers.

Estimating time frames is one of the most complicated parts of any project planning. There are dozens of books written on this matter, and still, experts do not have the exact steps on how to do that precisely. Most of them agree that one of the objectives is the experience of the team members on similar projects and the ability to analyze the complexity of specific parts and predict the risks. From our experience agile approach of software development also helps to increase transparency, predict the risks, and react to the changes in the scope proactively.

Nowadays more and more giants like Amazon and Google come with their solutions that allow developing new web applications without the need to develop the backend. We believe that it’s indeed a perfect way to prototype your product and have the very first version very fast. But even while later you may need to work on the backend, amount of work on the frontend is usually more than on the backend since that’s the way you interact with the end user and user experience dramatically depends on the performance, general look, and feel and quality of the design and development of the front part.

Almost every year there are some trends in web development but generally, here are the main objectives you should think about while deciding on the technologies to be used:
- The number of software developers available in the market now and in the nearest future to support your web application. Also, it’s important to mention that the cost of different experts also varies dramatically.
- For the frontend part currently, there are two main platforms from two software giants - Angular from Google and React from Facebook. While a few years ago there were pros and cons for both of them and there was no clear leader, right now 90% of the new customers decide to move forward with React.
- Node.js is the most popular backend technology currently for the latest products. One of the main benefits of having it is that more and more software developers become “full stack” having Node.js as the backend language. In this case, you will be able to use the same person to work on both frontend and backend.

Since MWDN has been working for more than 16 years, we have experience with a wide range of technologies including Microsoft stack (.NET), PHP, Python, Ruby, and Node.js. Based on our experience, Node.js and Python are becoming leaders as of 2019.

Our team provides fully custom design developed by our UI/UX expert based on the customer’s preferences. We prefer not to use a design template because we believe that any product should have a unique look and feel and every small detail is essential.

We have experience with several CMS and are sure that each one has benefits and key features. There are no clear leaders in the market right now, but as a software development house, we prefer WordPress since we believe that it’s the most mature one.

Any project we work on has the free bug fix period and only after it’s completed we offer the paid maintenance service that may include 24/7 support, adding new functionality, bug fixing, migration to the new versions, etc.

Depends on the type of project.

MWDN has experience with different payment structures, and usually, the one to select is the decision based on the customer. From our experience, the most common one is the monthly payment for the amount for work done during this month. It allows the customer to monitor progress and expenses and also to split the large payments to parts.

We do select the projects starting from 10000USD.

The smallest one was 15000USD, and the largest one we had in 2018 was 220000USD.

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