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A progressive JavaScript framework known for its approachability, versatility, and performance.
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We have vast experience crafting healthcare software development solutions, including UI/UX Design, Application Development, Legacy Healthcare Systems, and Team Augmentation. Our development services help the healthcare industry by enhancing accessibility, productivity, portability, and scalability.
We offer a range of custom software development solutions for education companies of all sizes. We're experts in Education Software Development and specialists in enhancing the learning experience across web, mobile, and conversational UI.
We're experts in developing Custom Software Solutions for the Logistics Industry. Our work offered a whole new and more efficient way for Logistics companies to manage their crucial operations.
We partner with various construction industry organizations to build custom software development solutions. Our Construction Software Development Services allow construction companies to manage projects, resources, and documentation.
Learn more about our current job openings and benefits of working at FSL.
Detailed reviews and feedback from past and current clients.
Get to know the Management Team behind FullStack Labs.
Our step-by-step process for designing and developing new applications.
Writings from our team on technology, design, and business.
Get answers to the questions most frequently asked by new clients.
Learn about our company culture and defining principles.
A high level overview of FullStack Labs, who we are, and what we do.
A JavaScript framework that allows rapid development of native Android and IOS apps.
A JavaScript framework maintained by Facebook that's ideal for building complex, modern user interfaces within single page web apps.
A server side programming language known for its ease of use and speed of development.
A lightweight and efficient backend javascript framework for web apps.
An interpreted high-level programming language great for general purpose programming.
A JavaScript framework maintained by Google that addresses many of the challenges encountered when building single-page apps.
A JavaScript framework that allows developers to build large, complex, scalable single-page web applications.
A progressive JavaScript framework known for its approachability, versatility, and performance.
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View a sampling of our work implemented using a variety of our favorite technologies.
View examples of the process we use to build custom software solutions for our clients.
View projects implemented using this javascript framework ideal for building complex, modern user interfaces within single page web apps.
View projects implemented using this framework that allows rapid development of native Android and IOS apps.
View projects implemented using this backend javascript framework for web apps.
View projects implemented using this high-level programming language great for general purpose programming.
View projects implemented using this server side programming language known for its ease of use and speed of development.
After choosing a software vendor, you’ll typically walk away with an estimate of how long the project will take and what the vendor charges per hour. You’ll sign the contract, the vendor will get to work, and then you’ll start getting the bill for the time they’ve sunk into development.
But sometimes, an hour isn’t an hour isn’t an hour.
I regularly see proposals from competitors that quote low hourly rates billed on a weekly or monthly basis. A consultancy quoting you a $125/hour rate, but who bills weekly, will send you a flat $5,000/week invoice.
But they don’t account for all the time their developers are technically on the clock but not working on your project. You might end up getting billed for the developers’ vacation days, sick days, company retreats, short workdays, and any number of occasions that have nothing to do with your project.
What else did their developers do during that week? They could have:
All can add up to significant differences in what you’re ultimately charged. What started off as an appealingly low sticker price per hour is, as it turns out, not.
In the United States, for example, our developers at FullStack receive about 4 weeks of PTO per year. If we were to bill clients on a weekly or monthly basis they would end up paying for this time, which would equate to an 8 percent higher hourly rate. In Colombia, where our developers get about 8 weeks of PTO, that’s a 16 percent difference. Add in short days and sick days, and the difference can be 25 percent or more.
When looking for a vendor, it’s important to look beyond the appeal of low hourly rates and go deeper.
Ultimately, without a reliable system for tracking the time developers actually spent on your project, their quoted rate is meaningless.
When it comes to tracking development hours and not wasting client money, we at FullStack are vigilant.
We use the time-tracking software Toggl, which we integrate with Jira, our project management software. This allows every person on our team to track their time down to the second. We don’t block-bill or round time up to the nearest 15 or 30-minute increment. And we don’t bill by the day, week, or month.
That means we only bill clients for the time we actually work on their projects.
Each time a developer starts a new story in Jira, they start the timer and log how long each story took them to complete. This allows us to run reports for clients to determine the time actually required to build a feature and how much it cost. We can also compare the amount of time billed to the amount of time estimated for a feature, sprint, or the entire app.
Every day at noon, we send a report to clients showing all hours billed during the previous day, broken down by the Jira story (you can read more about how we report hours to clients in our Playbook). The report includes:
This lets clients see who worked the previous day and for how long, what they worked on, what got done, how much it cost, and where the bill stands for the month and the year.
This high level of transparency results in unsurprising invoices, happy clients, and successful projects.
Now consider the difference by comparing the following scenarios of hiring a developer for one month through 1) Another consultancy and 2) FullStack Labs:
Not only does the first consultancy end up charging a $65 more expensive effective hourly rate, but by not granularly tracking time, they are unable to provide their client with a detailed report showing how time was spent and what was completed. You’ve ended up paying more and not actually knowing the true cost behind the work performed.
Be careful when comparing hourly rates. They can mean vastly different things depending on how the consultancy tracks its time and bills its clients. Our level of transparency and how we manage our projects leads to happy clients.
We’d love to learn more about your project.
Engagements start at $75,000.