Shakuro

Global Design and Development Agency

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We are a team passionate about creating impactful UI/UX designs, building cutting-edge web & mobile apps, and crafting meaningful brands. From well-established businesses to rising startups, we help you achieve your goals and solve users’ pains. While still keeping in mind your budget, of course. Swyft, Proko, CGMA, Google, Metro, and others — are just a few of our partners for who we create high-utility products surpassing the client’s expectations.

What can we help you with?

- Mobile app development. Let’s build a scalable and stable app for iPhone and Android that will break in the charts like a hurricane.

- Web development. Functional and eye-catching websites. Within your budget, with clean code, and engaging UX.

- UI/UX design. Your ideas transferred into lines, buttons, and dashboards, spiced with our experience and latest trends. That’s the recipe.

- Branding & illustration. Creating strong visuals powered by colors, psychology, lines, and marketing strategy. No brainless image generation.

Need a hand with an existing app, prototype, or redesign? Drop us a message and let’s collaborate on your next masterpiece.

$25 - $49/hr
50 - 249
2006
Locations
United States
16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, Delaware 19958

Focus Areas

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

Client Focus

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  • Small Business
  • Medium Business
  • Large Business

Industry Focus

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  • Business Services
  • Financial & Payments
  • Information Technology

Shakuro Executive Interview

Kostya Stepanov
Kostya Stepanov
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Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
Shakuro is a team of talented people, located in Russia, the USA, and Europe. We use digital tools, vision, and imagination to build products, design brands, and delightful experiences. 
Fourteen years ago, we started this company with vigor and zero business experience. We watched the digital industry change and grew along with it.
Today, we have around 400 proud projects from all over the world, designed, built, and supported by our 110 hard-working employees.
What was the idea behind starting this organization?
There were a lot of talented people hanging around doing random freelance projects or doing boring stuff in large companies. I was one of those people. One day we met and decided to work together in the company which we genuinely wanted to be a part of. That’s how Shakuro was born.
What are your company’s business model, in-house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
We are an in-house team with occasional involvement in third-party vendor collaborations.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
Flexibility is one of Shakuro's greatest advantages. To create a highly efficient working environment, we can easily adjust to clients' working habits, cultural backgrounds, corporate rules, and so on. For the last 14 years, we’ve had the pleasure of working with a great variety of people. We’ve had everything from pet projects for students to enterprise applications for large multinational companies.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive? If yes, what ratio of clients has been repetitive to you?
Although we've done a fair number of projects, we've managed to narrow down some niches we are most experienced in, such as e-commerce, education, finance, health, sports, etc. We also created efficient solutions for social media, event planning, video tutoring, CG community platforms, and more. Another essential part of our marketing strategy is supporting young companies and their startups. We have a decent portfolio of successful examples of such collaborations.

If we talk about sheer numbers, I guess around 70-75% of our clients stay with us for years or tend to get back with new projects. Some of such collaborations have been lasting for more than five years, the longest ones extending over eight years.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a mobile app.
People tend to understand complicated subjects better when there is a good real-life example. We love to compare app development with something as complex as building a new house. Imagine what questions a builder asks in order to give their client the timelines. It must be incredibly different, for each new client they face, right? The same principle applies to our industry. Each of our projects is a unique journey with its own rules. Previously, I mentioned eight years as our longest cooperation period with a client, to which I can add that all these years, we’ve been working on their set of mobile apps. So, if a project is successful, the development never really ends.
How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of a mobile app?
It highly depends on the app. Complicated features require a huge amount of backend work while the frontend remains fairly simple. The vice-versa situation happens when we are talking about animations, for example. So, I believe it would be safe to say that, in general, the effort is more or less equal.
What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right platform for a mobile application?
I think you've done a thorough job covering all the key parameters in your article here, https://www.goodfirms.co/resources/mobile-app-development-platform-factors.
Which platform do you suggest your clients to begin with when they approach you with an idea (Android or iOS) and why?
The choice of the right platform for an app depends on the market you want to dive in, what type of project you have, and the approach of your marketing strategy. It’s no surprise that even the country plays a huge role while choosing what platform to start with. You don't have to think much entering the US market since the iOS would be the best choice for most cases. For the rest of the world, I would recommend checking iOS/Android ratio usage.
Android or iOS, Native or Hybrid — which platform is best to use to build your app? What are your recommendations?
We've tried to jump on the hybrid train several times with no success. This, however, doesn't mean that you shouldn't try it.
Hybrid development works pretty well if you have:
  • A small app
  • A low budget
  • A ton of existing logic in JS
  • A very good developer or a company experienced in hybrid frameworks.
We have nothing against hybrid development, but we will remain on the native side of the development in the nearest future.
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.)
As I mentioned earlier, we are very flexible, that’s also true for our payment structure. In most cases, we stick to the time & material payment type, which allows us to unlock the full creative potential. Some clients, on the other hand, prefer to work strictly on the fixed price. So, either way, works for us.
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 starting point for a project is usually around $10K. In some cases, however, we can make an exception.
Kindly share your feedback on how GoodFirms has been doing so far in increasing your visibility among potential clients.
GoodFirms did a great job helping new customers get to know our brand online.

Shakuro Clients & Portfolios

Key Clients

  • Proko
  • Metro
  • OMG
  • Select
  • Cubebrush
  • Universal Music Group
  • Akeptus
  • MMKT
  • TBWA
  • DFJ
  • CGMA
  • Google
  • Imperial College London
  • Vulcun
  • Swyft
  • MyMovies

Select App
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Select App
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$10001 to $50000
100 weeks
Travel & Lifestyle

SELECT is a program that offers its members exclusive and unlimited benefits with premier brands at over 1.6M locations worldwide. The scope of our work included branding, design, and development of an iOS app, Android app design, website design, membership card, and custom merch design. As a result, the company has seen an increase in membership, handling it well with the current economic situation.

Guitar Tuner+
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Guitar Tuner+
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$50001 to $100000
100 weeks
Art, Entertainment & Music

Guitar Tuner+ is a digital tuner application that encourages aspiring musicians while catering to seasoned players. The challenge was to build an app that would have a fast sonic response, and clear tuning instructions, all in a modern UI with unique visuals. The scope of the work included iOS development, UI/UX design, and animations. As a result, Shakuro designed an app with a revolutionary visual style, personalization, and professional-grade note detection. The app went live and received a bunch of positive reviews from pro guitarists and bedroom enthusiasts.

Satellite Landing Page
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Satellite Landing Page
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
Other Industries

We made this super-tech landing page design for the mini satellite space project. This animated shot shows how responsive, mobile, and monumental at the same time the main illustration on the website is. It plays not only decoration function in this UI. But fully reveals the topic of a business, explains, and shows clearly. The 3D illustration is an irreplaceable and invaluable detail here.

Lonely Walls App
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Lonely Walls App
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$10001 to $50000
100 weeks
Art, Entertainment & Music

Showing you some work we did for Lonely Walls — a project for promoting and trading art directly from artisans to customers without the hassle of resellers and galleries. The mobile app was part of the process. It’s a versatile product: an authentic art outlet for business owners, a discovery platform and a shop for collectors, a network and an e-commerce platform for artists.

Craftverse
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Craftverse
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
Art, Entertainment & Music

Craftverse is an online community for cosplayers to showcase their work, share, learn, and connect. The project has just begun and we are helping develop it with our design skills. The task before us was to create lively stylish graphics for dark interfaces that cosplay professionals and enthusiasts could relate to.

Conceptzilla 2.0
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Conceptzilla 2.0
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
Designing

Conceptizilla is a team of designers from Shakuro, and after reaching 500+ projects on resumes, together we decided to create a redesign for their website. Designing a concept in black created a sleek and modern look to attract more customers. With an eye-catching style, the website showed all essential information that was easy to read on all devices. The new concept allowed the team to reach out to new audiences, boost their business profits, and stand out from the crowd.

Street Art News
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Street Art News
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$10001 to $50000
100 weeks
Media

StreetArtNews is the #1 online magazine for street art and urban contemporary art. It provides daily coverage on everything new in urban and street art, including events and exhibitions. It also offers to buy artworks made by some of the most prominent artists in form of screen printing or using other materials. We’re excited to have an opportunity to redesign their website! The idea is to make it more contemporary and beautiful to better suit the subject of modern art.

Fourpicapital Website
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Fourpicapital Website
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$10001 to $50000
100 weeks
Financial & Payments

This is a part of our Fourpi Capital website design project, now made alive with animation. Fourpi Capital is a company that provides an independent financial analysis for clients from more than 16 countries in various industries. Financial services websites can be intimidating. We made it so that the Fourpi Capital website looked comforting, yet confident, with a lot of white space and simple and understandable structure.

Proko
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Proko
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$10001 to $50000
100 weeks
Art, Entertainment & Music

Proko is a web resource for artists with quality art instruction videos and tutorials. We used our web design and development skills to help it transform into a full-scale e-learning and communication platform, surpassing the old website in terms of design and elegance, user engagement, technological superiority, and profitability.

WYSPR
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WYSPR
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$10001 to $50000
100 weeks
Advertising & Marketing

WYSPR agency’s goal was to realize their innovative crowd-promotion business idea. As a result of our cooperation, they now have a working business based on a mobile app and a project management portal.

Builddie
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Builddie
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$10001 to $50000
12 weeks
Startups

Builddie is a Smart Building System that uses artificial intelligence-based solutions to empower users to have absolute and real-time control over residential energy costs and savings. It collects data throughout the household and balances your comfort, energy usage, and budget while learning your preferences. Bulddie’s mission is to lead the world in residential energy savings by focusing on environmentally friendly algorithms of energy consumption.

Swyft
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Swyft
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Not Disclosed
100 weeks
Retail

Swyft is an international company that makes retail store solutions. Their products include vending machines, automated store soft-and hardware, robots, and cashierless stores. Swyft has developed the industry’s most robust and massively scalable cloud-based automated retail backend solution and implemented it in collaborations with some of the biggest brands in the world like Google, CVS Health, Vodafone and Sennheiser.

Vacation Rental
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Vacation Rental
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
Travel & Lifestyle

A website design of a vacation rental that’s a kind of a variation of Airbnb but it offers to stay only in select places like the designer houses, close to nature and imbued with style.

Company Blog
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Company Blog
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
Media

This is a classic blog layout with hamburger menu and grids, suited for both texts and photos. The white and black color palette doesn't distract users from blog posts, and keeps the design inclusive and accessible for people with sight impairments, while smooth animations maintain the layout trendy and crushing. Bright environments interfere with screen visibility, and some concepts are hard to read in environments like that.‍ Black and white designs suit blogs well and prevent occasional sunlight from interfering with visibility.

Fashion Store
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Fashion Store
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
E-commerce

Fashion Store. Inspired by an extremely authentic street fashion brand stores, we are bringing the same product-based presentation and powerful imagery with minimum distraction. Focusing on seamless buying experience, we are putting a lot of the common estore features aside to make sure the product is the key.

AdCentrl
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AdCentrl
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
Advertising & Marketing

ADCNTRL is a cloud-based ad-tracking software for campaign management, data analytics, and optimization tools that makes advertising easier and more profitable. It's a fully-responsive platform with a ton of features, illustrations, and transition animations which make this not just a useful software but delightful as well.

Kobil 3D Secure
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Kobil 3D Secure
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$0 to $10000
12 weeks
Information Technology

Taking a 3D payment security technology (whatever that is) and using the tesseract analogy for the illustration. This time we've built the page organically around the illustration which exudes confidence. Kind of what you need from a payment protection service.

Multifamily Modeling
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Multifamily Modeling
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$10001 to $50000
12 weeks
Business Services

Multifamily Modeling is a company with a 10-year-long experience that builds sophisticated, straightforward financial models for multifamily investors and developers and provides consulting services throughout the US. Our job was to rebrand the company, redesign the website with the help of meaningful illustrations and product highlights. It was important to establish a professional look as well as promote functionality.

OMGene
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OMGene
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$100001 to $500000
100 weeks
Enterprise

OMGene is an internal mobile application for a business enterprise created as an auxiliary communication and team-building platform. We designed UI and UX for OMGene, engineered the app's functionality, and provide ongoing support.

Arthur W. Page Society
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Arthur W. Page Society
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$100001 to $500000
100 weeks
Information Technology

The Arthur W. Page Society has been made to connect and strengthen corporate relations. Being the world’s leading professional association for senior public relations, it’s large user base of Chief Communications Officers of Fortune 500 corporations allows corporate executives and educators enrich their professional connections.

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I can truly say choosing Shakuro was the best decision I could have made for my companies web and mobile tech needs. After shopping around to a few USA based companies, mostly Manhattan based, and some abroad it became abundantly clear Shakuro had what I was looking for and demonstrated their capability to get the work done far beyond what any other company was willing to do. They took the time initially to put together the entire wire frame, at no cost, of this project to show me how capable they truly were. Almost every other company wanted to charge me for them to prove they had the skills to do what I wanted, a broken approach if you ask me. I will be using Shakuro for the foreseeable future for all my tech needs. Their skills span far beyond my companies current needs, but after viewing some of their other work with game dev., web dev. and UI/UX on both, should I ever venture there these will be my go to people!

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Mobile & Web App Development

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Mobile App Development, Web Development