Front-End Development for Test Prep Startup
Custom Responsive Front End Design and Development
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LSAT Engine
1-10 Employees
Los Angeles, California
Clap Creative created a front-end system using JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 for a computer based LSAT preparation software.
We are an adaptive test prep platform. Our first foray in the market will be the exam that helps students get into law school, known as the LSAT. We are a machine learning course.
I am the founder of the company.
We wanted a working front-end system. We use them for JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 work as well as very light implementation of some of those pieces of code into our backend.
It was all front-end coding. We do the back-end coding in house. It was a little bit of integration but I would say the lion share of their work was to code the front-end in those three languages I mentioned.
We met DK [Clap Creative’s Chief Executive Officer] here in California since he was recommended to us by a friend of a friend with whom he had done some work. Our friend was one of his first clients.
We spent under $10,000.
He’s finished the project. We want to maintain the relationship with him and his staff in case we need some change orders in the future.
It was a fairly sophisticated job and there was a lot of back and forth, but Clap Creative dealt with it well. We don’t have beta users in the system yet. We had done our own internal review of the code and so far it seems to be working well. Once we launch formally, we’ll have metrics.
DK acted as a project manager in the sense that he had a team of programmers and he was our only liaison between the development team on his end and our Chief Technology Officer. They were very communicative. He was willing to Skype with us within a day or two’s notice. He was very responsive. If we had an issue on code or something broke he was very quick to remedy the situation. And while he may not be an expert level coder himself he understands the landscape enough to be able to translate what we wanted to his team.
I think they were very reasonable in their initial project rate. I appreciated when there were issues with the code and when we needed to ask for a level of development up from where they felt was in their area of expertise, they were willing to find someone else and add that person to their team in order to satisfy our request.
I think one thing that would have been helpful would be if they would have communicated to us what was in their level of expertise before we found out it wasn’t. They were able to find someone to do that portion of the project but we didn’t know that. It would have been great for us to know they didn’t have that capability. That’s a negative and positive at the same time because it turned out well. But that might have saved us time to know that. We’re happy with the outcome anyways.
The internal software review has shown that the team created good code. Clap Creative assigned a point person for team management and communicated well. The team fixed all issues quickly at reasonable rates, although they did not always disclose their team's limitations.
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