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Space-O is one stop solution for all your mobile app development, software development, Internet of things (IOT), AR & VR app development needs. From concept to development to marketing to ongoing maintenance, Space-O delivers.
We are now one of the top mobile app development companies in India by following the success mantra of “Design-led-Engineering”. We work with best-of-the-best fine art grads from top design institutes such as NID and best-of-the-best engineers.
Space-O's ability to meet such not-so-easy expectations has emerged from its team of experts; all of them have years of experience in global software services and product engineering industry.
Locations
India
1005, 10th floor, Abhishree Adroit, Besides Gwalia Sweets, Mansi Circle, Vastrapur,
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
380015
91-79-40084018
United States
222 East Main St, Suite B-2,
Mesa,
Arizona
85201
1 (650) 666-3071
Focus Areas
Service Focus
- Big Data & BI
- Web Development
- E-commerce Development
- Testing Services
- Mobile App Development
Client Focus
- Large Business
- Medium Business
- Small Business
Industry Focus
- Healthcare & Medical
- Other
Space-O Technologies Executive Interview
Bhaval Patel
Assistant Vice President
Please introduce your company and your role within the company.
Space-O Technologies was started in 2010 as a partnership firm between Mr. Rakesh Patel and Mr. Atit Purani. With more than 15 years of experience into IT field that comprises of web development, Space-O was founded with a goal of focusing only on Mobile App development in Ahmedabad. Mr. Rakesh Patel is the CEO and Mr. Atit Purani as the CTO of Space-O Technologies.
Space-O technologies have developed more than 3000 applications and currently have three development centres. The head office is in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and the development centres are based in St. Petersburg, Muscat and Vietnam. We have our sales and business development office in Sunnyvale, CA. Currently, we have total employee strength of 200+ developers and our core focus is on mobile app development. We do have few projects on website development but all of them come along with mobile app assignment, so more than 95% of our work is mobile app development. Our client comprises mostly of start-ups and enterprises.
Currently, I am working as Assistant Vice President and looking after marketing, sales and business development of the company’s business. I joined Space-O technologies as the first Project Manager in early 2011. During my journey of 5 years within the company, I was promoted to Sr. Project Manager, Delivery Manager and Sales Head before acquiring my current role.
Space-O technologies have developed more than 3000 applications and currently have three development centres. The head office is in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and the development centres are based in St. Petersburg, Muscat and Vietnam. We have our sales and business development office in Sunnyvale, CA. Currently, we have total employee strength of 200+ developers and our core focus is on mobile app development. We do have few projects on website development but all of them come along with mobile app assignment, so more than 95% of our work is mobile app development. Our client comprises mostly of start-ups and enterprises.
Currently, I am working as Assistant Vice President and looking after marketing, sales and business development of the company’s business. I joined Space-O technologies as the first Project Manager in early 2011. During my journey of 5 years within the company, I was promoted to Sr. Project Manager, Delivery Manager and Sales Head before acquiring my current role.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a mobile app?
As a first step, we evaluate the business requirement. When client’s come to us for a solution to their existing business, we ask clients a set of questions to understand the requirement in detail that includes like - What is your business? Why you need a mobile app? What purpose will this mobile app solve? We provide them with feasibility study and the detailed schematic design.
In case, when the idea is a single line requirement we do offer business analysis followed by feasibility study. Once that is done, we give them a proposal or a work breakdown structure which includes information like how many hours of development would be required on front end, how many hours of development would be required on back end side, how many hours of development would be required on designing, how many hours required by the project manager to do the project management, and how many hours of involvement required from Quality Assurance side etc.
For example, if there is an application like FaceBook and the client wants to remove the functionality of “Like” or “Comment”, then it is easy for them to understand how much would each function cost in terms of fixed cost.
As one of the leading mobile app development company, who always come across with complex tasks and features which are not developed yet by any-one, in such cases we suggest our clients to get started with a prototype. When we propose a prototype we just want to show the client how much accuracy or what levels of result we can actually have using the mobile app technology. We have mostly suggested prototype in hardware integration and complex video and photo related functionalities.
In case, when the idea is a single line requirement we do offer business analysis followed by feasibility study. Once that is done, we give them a proposal or a work breakdown structure which includes information like how many hours of development would be required on front end, how many hours of development would be required on back end side, how many hours of development would be required on designing, how many hours required by the project manager to do the project management, and how many hours of involvement required from Quality Assurance side etc.
For example, if there is an application like FaceBook and the client wants to remove the functionality of “Like” or “Comment”, then it is easy for them to understand how much would each function cost in terms of fixed cost.
As one of the leading mobile app development company, who always come across with complex tasks and features which are not developed yet by any-one, in such cases we suggest our clients to get started with a prototype. When we propose a prototype we just want to show the client how much accuracy or what levels of result we can actually have using the mobile app technology. We have mostly suggested prototype in hardware integration and complex video and photo related functionalities.
How much effort in terms of time goes in developing the front end and the back end of developing a mobile application?
Proportionately the front end development will require around 60-70% of efforts and back end will require around 15-20% but this will again depend very much on how complex or detailed the CMS is.
What is your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors / outsourcing?
We are having highly qualified in-house team of 200+ professionals. We are end to end service provider for Mobile App Development that includes; business analysis, wire framing, prototyping, UI and UX designers (14 in total), iOS developers, Android developers, back end developers, QA team and we have 50+ devices to test the application in live environment that includes all variants of iPad, iPhone, and most popular Android devices.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
We always push ourselves to make our client’s project a success. This may be the reason that many of our competitors who have a team in the range of 200+ developers do not have success stories which we have. We have few clients who are working with us for more than four years; they have been consistently working with us and we have built their complete portfolio of apps. So there are applications developed by us which have downloads in excess of one million. This makes us stand apart from our competitors.
Which platform do you prefer for developing mobile applications?
Generally, we prefer to develop the application in a native platform. 98% of our projects have been developed in the native environment. We use Objective C and Swift for iOS and Java for Android. Sometimes we do receive requirements to do other platforms and technologies, in such cases, we try to explain our clients why native technology is better and reach a consensus. But if clients are not ready to believe in us, then we are not work on such assignments. A simple reason is that we believe in delivering the best to our clients and there is no alternative apart from native platform.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of a mobile application?
The first and foremost criterion is the feasibility of the idea. Many times enterprises do not understand that mobile is a comparatively newer technology than web development. It is difficult to make them understand if a mobile application for a certain idea is feasible or not To make sure that what are the functionalities that the client is expecting we consider the following - Can it be delivered or developed or not? Are there any alternatives made with which we can achieve that functionality in less time and make the client’s app live in the market and have the real users start using it? With these as the core focus, we further evaluate the number of screens and the functionality which needs to be delivered. We offer a very précised and detailed work structure of what we are exactly going to do on each screen.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients?
As the mobile app development business is maturing, we have a lot of enterprise clients in our portfolio and with such clientele base we do not have any specific price strategy. But we mostly work on fixed price projects. We have also worked on some complex solutions where we have provided a dedicated team of developers for a certain project. There have been instances where the client comes in and wants to make changes to the existing projects, they got their app developed from some developer but are unsatisfied with the results, in such cases we prefer to go with T&M model.
As a company we do not have any policy or strategy that we will work only on fixed price project or T&M or dedicated model but we are open to all three models based on client’s specific needs. We always work towards offering better solutions to the clients. If we start with the fixed price and if the end product is not good then ultimately it is a disastrous relationship between client and Space-O technologies, we do not want that to happen. We believe in having a flexible pricing structure.
As a company we do not have any policy or strategy that we will work only on fixed price project or T&M or dedicated model but we are open to all three models based on client’s specific needs. We always work towards offering better solutions to the clients. If we start with the fixed price and if the end product is not good then ultimately it is a disastrous relationship between client and Space-O technologies, we do not want that to happen. We believe in having a flexible pricing structure.
Do you take in projects which meet your basic budget requirement? What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you worked in 2015?
No, we do not have any such criteria. We started working on projects where the budget was a few hundred dollars but now the same client has been working with us continuously for a few years now and we have done some of the most priced requirements for the same client. We always work with the idea to retain the client and do repeat business with them. In 2015, the larger projects that we worked were priced above US$ 100,000.
Which business model do you suggest to generate revenue from mobile applications? Why?
The best model in my opinion is the Freemium / user acquisition model. It allows the users to use the application for free. Focus on getting a strong user base and do not go for monetization at the start of the application is the suggestion we offer to our start-up clients. Just focus on the target audience, have a basic application roll out that serves the need of your target audience and continuously improve based on the user experience and feedback.
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Tom Sieron, Co-Founder at punktum at punktum
Posted 5 months ago
Good value for the cost
Review Summary
We worked with Space-O Technologies, and Milosz he is a great PM. He was keeping us fully informed and aware of all decisions, the ramifications of our ideas, as well as the impact on cost and deadlines. I have been running software development companies for the last 15 years, and can fully recommend Milosz as a great PM, from a position of his client.
What was the project name that you have worked with Space-O Technologies?
WordPress Website Dev for Health Software & Hardware Co
What service was provided as part of the project?
Web Development
Describe your project in brief
We launched a new company, designed the branding and website, and needed a WordPress vendor to code it and support it in its growth.
What is it about the company that you appreciate the most?
Delivery well before time (and we were in a crunch already), and well in budget, while keeping top quality.
What was it about the company that you didn't like which they should do better?
Can't think of any.
katt Rodriguez
Posted on Oct 16, 2020
Excellent Job
Review Summary
They did a great job, I highly recommend their services
What service was provided as part of the project?
App Designing (UI/UX)
Michael Chan
Posted on Jun 29, 2017
App Development
Review Summary
Space-O is one of the best development teams I’ve worked with. The quality of work is excellent and their communication skills are top notch. I highly recommend this development team and will be working with them again!
What was the project name that you have worked with Space-O Technologies?
Project development
What service was provided as part of the project?
Mobile App Development, E-commerce Development
Sanjeev Chandak, Co-Founder & CEO at ftcash
Posted on Apr 23, 2016
Reasonable quotation of cost and time.
Review Summary
The client is a financial startup that enables payment and money lending for the micro-merchants and small businesses. The client sought mobile app development to enable faster payments and offline transactions. Space-O Technologies was involved in developing an Android and iOS mobile app that customers can use to make payments. Space-O Technologies also developed the backend for the project. The project completed within the committed time and budget.
The client is satisfied with the services and support of Space-O Technologies and praised them for their technical expertise and accommodating approach. The client highly recommends Space-O Technologies to their friends and colleagues.
What was the project name that you have worked with Space-O Technologies?
Android & iOS Application Development for Financial Services
What service was provided as part of the project?
Mobile App Development, Web Development
Veasna Mao, Founder at Notinger
Posted on Apr 12, 2016
Impressive team work & timely delivery of tasks.
Review Summary
The client is a business consulting firm and provides services for the private and government sectors in the USA. Space-O Technologies was involved in developing a mobile app for one of their business segments of the notary and legal services. The app is supposed to run on all the platforms available to the public.
The client looks very much satisfied with the services provided by Space-O Technologies and they are looking forward to doing more projects with them and they also recommend them highly to their industry partners.
What was the project name that you have worked with Space-O Technologies?
Notinger iPad App
What service was provided as part of the project?
Mobile App Development, App Designing (UI/UX)