Hedgehog Technology
Overview
First things first - right from the beginning, I'll give you a clear recipe on HOW TO DETERMINE IF YOU NEED TO HIRE OUR TEAM. Check if this sentence is about your need: "I strongly believe that my great and unique design deserves to be coded by extraordinary developers." Despite being very simple, this is a powerful instrument in decision-making. Almost like a full-featured McKinsey-style consulting framework ;) Let's test it against the example, a typical job post on the Upwork: "I need a developer to make a simple site, based on the ready WordPress theme." Does it sound like the author of this posting has a great and unique design? Most likely no because it utilizes the ready-made theme. Does it seem like he needs an outstanding developer? Again no - the customer is sure the project is simple. The conclusion is: this customer doesn't need us. What about you? WHO ARE WE: We are a professional services company that rocks in web development. WHO ARE OUR CLIENTS: They are, mostly, agencies and startups. WHAT DO WE OFFER TO OUR CLIENTS: Agencies - we work shoulder to shoulder with them to deliver websites/web apps to their clients. There are 2 main forms of working together: (A) "Take away my pain" - we are responsible for the entire development process, from gathering requirements to production deploy. This form is mostly used with smaller agencies that don't have their development department at all. So, we bring our processes, standards, infrastructure, project management, quality assurance, etc. (B) "We need more firepower" - we work as an extension of the existing agency's development team. In this form of partnership, you mostly work with a developer directly. And he adopts your processes and standards, works in your repositories, and deploys changes to your staging. This form is more suitable for teams with strong development expertise. With startups, we have 2 other popular forms of partnership: (C) "Craft me an MVP" - for early-stage ventures. The name says it. So, if you have an idea + funds + at least sketches of the design + marketing plan, you can hire our team to make it happen. (D) "Help my marketing department" - for established businesses. When you need to deal with a big site with blog and landing pages, integrate those with CRM, email marketing software and booking system, and also you have to support and maintain this zoo, alongside adding new pages and features, you need someone you can rely on. OUR STACK: We are, mostly, PHP+JS guys: ✓ Pixel-perfect front-end with state-of-art JavaScript (Vanilla, Vue, jQuery); ✓ We love animations - from simple CSS transitions, fade-ins, parallaxes, sliders, etc. to advanced Canvas, GSAP, SVG, Lottie, etc.; ✓ Various CMSs - WordPress, Craft CMS, Ghost, Netlify CMS (if you need a static website); ✓ E-commerce solutions - WooCommerce, Shopify, Squarespace, OpenCart; Custom back-end - either based on Node (Node.js, MEVN) or PHP (no framework, Nette, Laravel).