Web Applications
See below how our talented sprouters, rooted in the latest technologies,
have grown succesful fruit for clients around the world.
We use Ruby on Rails to sprout your ideas into web applications. Sometimes we handle everything from our side but often we act as an extension of your current development team. Either way the best way to know what it is like to build a web app with Sprout is to understand our influences in developing the "Sprout Way". The first week of our training for new developers starts with a focus on Getting Real by 37signals. It is now 6 years old now but still very relevant and a must read for anyone working with us.
We love to work with Lean Startups. If you are an entrepreneur trying to do big things with a small budget then you need to go out and read everything you can by Eric Ries. Then contact us to help make it happen. We will help you make better, faster business decisions by using our agile approach to development that results in a tight loop of demos and feedback. Our software managers at Sprout are Certified Scrum Masters and we live in the world of Basecamp, GitHub, PivotalTracker, Skype and others to make it feel like we are around the corner from your office.
Are you doing product development or customer development? If you aren't sure what we are talking about, go find everything you can by Steven Blank then contact us to help make it happen. Build it and they will probably not come. We want to help you boil your idea down to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and then help you build it. This is all easy to say but we have found it to be extremely hard in every case but will do our best to do our part and share lessons learned from our other projects.
Mobile Applications
Mobile apps are plain cool and building them is painless when you hire us to do it for you.
Yes, we are mostly a web app development company. But early on our web app clients started asking for a complimentary iPhone app for their web app. Then they asked for an Android version and sure, why not BlackBerry too. Our developers have loved the learning curve and the result is that we are ready to pretty much build anything for you in the mobile space. And we aren't just about boring business apps, we have built and contributed to some cool games from one of the top mobile game companies in the world. And being a web company at the core we are extremely excited about the mobile web and using HTML5 and Javascript to do amazing things across mobile platforms.
First things first, you need a mobile strategy. Things are changing SO quickly in this space that you need a partner to help you figure an overall plan. No you don't just need a cool iPhone app. iOS covers the iPhone, iPad and iPod which takes some figuring out and then when that is successful you will want an Android app. Building, testing and distributing mobile apps takes some figuring out but we are here to guide you along the whole process. Mobile apps are often smaller projects that take a few weeks for one developer compared to our web app projects that take a few months for a team of three or more developers. Contact us to talk more about your project and how our mobile division can make it happen.