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Custom Software
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Custom Software solutions that leverage a rock-solid foundation

Develop Smarter, Deliver Faster

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The 8base Labs Team designs and builds your frontend UI/UX.

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The backend is the hard part and why most products fail.

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The 8base Platform makes this part easy.

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Business Logic
Integrations
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Notifications
Messaging
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Custom Software Development Services

Need help bringing a new digital product to market? Need to rebuild an existing product that isn't scaling? Or, may be you have a legacy application that needs to be re-platformed - We can help.

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Web Application Development

We are experts at designing and building state-of-the art single-page, API-first web applications.

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Mobile Application Development

We can help you design and build fully responsive web apps, progressive-web apps and native mobile apps.

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MVP Software Development

We help you design and build MVPs in a few weeks. Unlike most MVPS, ours are durable and become your ultimate product.

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Application Replatforming

Oftentimes, great frontends are built on top of flimsy backends. We can help you reinforce your foundation using the 8base Platform.

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Legacy Software Modernization

Companies have hundreds or thousands of applications they've used for years that are outdated, unsupported and expensive to maintain. We can help migrate them to the 8base Platform.

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Custom Software Development and Design

We offer a full range of custom software development services to ensure the execution of your project
happens flawlessly while you continue to focus on your core business.

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World-Class Design

For us, design is not just about how a product looks, but how it works. Our user-centered design methodology is coupled with our team of incredibly talented UI/UX designers and product managers and product architects. We've designed and implemented custom software solutions for companies in almost every industry and bring that experience to your project.

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Full-Stack Development

Building "systems" is way more complicated than building simple apps. Our highly experienced team understands the difference and brings that expertise to every engagement. We listen to your vision and create custom software solutions from the ground up. We can take the lead on your entire frontend, API and backend development bringing our vast architectural and design expertise to your project.

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Custom Frontend Development

We built a platform that takes care of most of the backend but our team is highly skilled at building custom frontend web and mobile  applications using any of the modern frontend frameworks. We can build everything from basic update screens to highly complex user interactions, all while ensuring both an amazing user experience and efficient use of computing resources on the frontend device.

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Custom Backend Development

We can support your frontend application development efforts with custom backend development. This service includes configuration of the 8base Platform, development of backend logic, API development and integrations with other systems and APIs.

Our Lightning Methodology Streamlines
the Custom Software Development Process

Our methodology ensures that your custom software applications are built rapidly and effectively while efficiently engaging you in the design and refinement of your end product.

Ideation

We partner with you to develop a customized strategy for the design, development and deployment of your project. Our team of digital innovation experts is determined to help your business win!

Business Analysis

Before engineering your project, we create functional specifications based upon discussions with you and any stakeholders you would like us to engage in user research. Our attention to detail in this area allows you to focus on the big picture.

Design

Design is not just how your product looks, it's how it works. We bring a team that leverages their experience across hundreds of projects to help you achieve remarkable results on both fronts, whether your project is a consumer-facing application of consumerized enterprise system. We can also work with your design team if you have one.

Development

We utilize agile development methodology organized into 2-week sprints.

Testing

We employ a test-driven development process so we are building test scripts as we write new code. This means testing is happening all the time and we can regression test every release. We conduct thorough and rigorous Q/A checks on all of our projects.

Deployment

We can manage your continuous integration / continuous deployment process for your frontend, mobile and backend applications.

Maintenance & Support

We can remain involved in your ongoing development and supporting any modifications and bug fixes that may require attention; and, since your software runs on the 8base Platform we ensure your infrastructure is fully operational at all times.

Transfer

When initial development is completed, we can easily transfer the code, test scripts and repositories to your team for ongoing development. We can help orient and train your team to help them get up and running.

Ideation

We partner with you to develop a customized strategy for the design, development and deployment of your project. Our team of digital innovation experts is determined to help your business win!

Business Analysis

Before engineering your project, we create functional specifications based upon discussions with you and any stakeholders you would like us to engage in user research. Our attention to detail in this area allows you to focus on the big picture.

Design

Design is not just how your product looks, it's how it works. We bring a team that leverages their experience across hundreds of projects to help you achieve remarkable results on both fronts, whether your project is a consumer-facing application of consumerized enterprise system. We can also work with your design team if you have one.

Development

We utilize agile development methodology organized into 2-week sprints.

Testing

We employ a test-driven development process so we are building test scripts as we write new code. This means testing is happening all the time and we can regression test every release. We conduct thorough and rigorous Q/A checks on all of our projects.

Deployment

We can manage your continuous integration / continuous deployment process for your frontend, mobile and backend applications.

Maintenance & Support

We can remain involved in your ongoing development and supporting any modifications and bug fixes that may require attention; and, since your software runs on the 8base Platform we ensure your infrastructure is fully operational at all times.

Transfer

When initial development is completed, we can easily transfer the code, test scripts and repositories to your team for ongoing development. We can help orient and train your team to help them get up and running.

Project Governance

Transparency, reliability and your overall customer experience are paramount to us. To this end, we employ highly experienced business / technology leaders who become your main point of engagement and oversee the full lifecycle of your project.

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Custom Software Success Stories

Read about our successes. Better yet, become one of them!

Platform that takes the complexity and cost out of AI computer vision and machine learning

Single-instance, multi-tenant SaaS for lead management and CRM for the insurance industry.

How Cobuild Lab reduced their build time by 30% - 50%

SaaS platform for full lifecycle management of strategic alliances between companies

TESTIMONIALS

What Are Customers Saying About 8base?

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Angel Lacret
Chief of Product Development @ Cobuild Lab
“8base cuts in half all the things that you need to do to create a well-designed application.”
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Eva Hankova
Front-end Developer, UI/UX Designer @ IBM
"8base's GraphQL API is amazing! It gives me everything I need to quickly build front-end apps with robust filters, sorting and pagination for my data with zero backend work."
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Ryan Macy
chief technology officer @ EvidenceCare
"GraphQL is a really amazing solution for a very serious problem, which is making APIs as usable as a UIs. That’s pretty much a requirement today for creating a great developer experience.”
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Christian Nwamba
Senior Developer Advocate @ Microsoft
“8base is a life-changing tool for developers. It's like Firebase but with GraphQL, relational data, flexibility and extensibility. I absolutely love it!”
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Sky Winston
Front-End Developer @ W+R Studios
“Speaking on behalf of front-end developers, what we don’t have is a way to easily get a back-end up and running. That’s why I’m so excited about 8base. It’s where I can go to do just that."
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Sam Woolerton
Analyst @ IT Partners Limited
" I detest DevOps, database migrations, and that sort of stuff. And literally, 8base handles all of that. So, it’s perfect for me. "
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Abdul Karmach,
CO-Founder @ AscendWare.net
"We founded the company doing low code but hopped around different platforms because they all had critical limitations and dead ends. We needed low-code, but also complete flexibility — and that’s precisely what 8base provides. It allows us to build any application while dramatically reducing the expense and labor. "
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Mihir Shah
Co-Founder @ ITWOX
"The feedback has been that it's very easy for the new devs to understand the core concept of 8base. It takes about a day or two for them to really get up to speed."
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Josh Clements
Managing Director @ Integris Group
"Usually, you expect to get 80% of what you want with low code; the other 20% is nearly impossible and you just burn a ton of time trying to accomplish it. We have not encountered that 20% at all since transitioning to 8base."
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Frequently Asked Questions

What do people make with 8base?

8base was made to support the needs of professional-grade applications. To us, this means applications that are for business or are the business, as is the case with a startup or scale-up's digital product. Professional-grade applications typically support multiple personas (roles). These applications are also typically data-intensive and workflow-intensive while supporting web and mobile clients.

Common types of applications include:

  • Multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications
  • Marketplaces, social networks and other network-centric applications
  • Portals and customer experience application
  • Internal applications where off-the-shelf SaaS products either do not address the need well or are too expensive to be used
  • Administrative parts of virtual / augmented reality applications
  • Games
  • API-only applications

What are the different types of software?

There are many different types of software and they generally fall into the following 4 categories:

  • Application Software - End-user software for performing a multitude of functions.
  • System Software - Operating systems and other core elements of how a computer works.
  • Programming Software - Things like development tools and compilers for programming languages.
  • Driver Software - Used to power different devices that may be connected to a computer.

Using 8base, you can build many different types of application software. Examples include:

  • Multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. These generally power subscription services for businesses.
  • Marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers of physical or digital assets.
  • Social networks that connect users and groups around certain interests.
  • Portals that are used to provide stakeholders self-service access to a company's business processes and/or data.
  • Customer experience applications intended to immerse a user in a specialized and typically highly customized experience.
  • Field service applications.
  • Educational applications.
  • Internal applications that enable business processes. These include ERP, HCM, CRM, MRP and others. Also include departmental applications.
  • Office tools such as Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint.
  • Consumer applications such as Whatsapp, WeChat, Instagram, Uber, Airbnb or other.
  • The administrative aspects of virtual, augmented and mixed reality applications.
  • The backend of digital games.
  • API-only applications.
  • Jamstack applications such as static-site generators.
  • Developer tools (for instance, many of 8base's capabilities are actually built using the 8base Platform).
  • Many more.

In a nutshell, what is 8base?

8base is a full-stack, low-code platform for building applications of any scale and complexity.

What happens if I need to migrate my backend off of the 8base platform

We have incorporated well-adopted, standard components at every tier of our architecture. This way, companies can take everything (except the 8base developed code) with them if they choose to migrate AND avoid dealing with lock-in problems or training for uncommon skills.

Here are some specific topics to consider:

  • 8base runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's market share leader in cloud computing.
  • Your data is stored in a MySQL database, a widely-used open source database technology which can be ported to a different cloud provider outside of 8base and AWS.
  • Your backend code is written in JavaScript and/or TypeScript, which is a language that 70% of professional developers understand and can run on any cloud.
  • We use GraphQL as our API language, which is an open source standard maintained by the GraphQL Foundation as part of the Linux Foundation
  • Your web front-end and/or mobile app is typically written using an open source framework such as React, Vue.js, Angular, Swift, Android, Gatsby, Gridsome or other. Your front-end app is completely portable.

There are some elements of your software that might require modifications to run outside of 8base such as switching to another GraphQL API provider, writing your own role-based-security and other things.

When using the 8base Platform do I retain ownership of my intellectual property?

8base's low-code platform accelerates software development and maintainability by providing a significant set of capabilities that make up important parts of a client's applications. All client-code that runs on the 8base Platform, and any data that is stored on 8base, remains the property of the client.

What are the steps in the software development process?

There are a number of major steps involved in software development. These generally include:

  • Analysis and Requirement Gathering
  • Product Architecture and Design
  • Coding and Test Development
  • Testing
  • Deployment
  • Maintenance and Operations

What kind of people get the most out of 8base?

Business leaders, technical leaders, developers, and digital agencies building applications.

Benefits include:

  • Creating more business value and innovation
  • Improving time to market and time to value
  • Reducing cost, risk and complexity; and
  • Addressing developer talent shortages.

With 8base, applications are designed, developed and deployed quickly, with compact teams, and built to scale the first time around.

What considerations should I have for tackling my Minimum Viable Product (MVP) effort?

A minimum viable product (MVP) is a concept from Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, that stresses the impact of learning in new product development. In the book, he defined an MVP as that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least amount of effort. Depending upon the type of product you are bringing to market, the scope of your MVP will vary. For instance, the minimum capabilities of a consumer-facing digital food recipe marketplace might differ greatly from those of an electronic prescribing system for physicians. In the latter case, be fully the system needs to fully functional, integrated with the pharmacy network, and even certified before it is useful to the first customer.

It is our belief that creators of products should formulate a hypothesis of the capabilities required in their products to experiment with early users while searching to find product-market fit; and, that market feedback be the mechanism for prioritizing new features.

It is our strong recommendation that creators make every attempt to minimize features while not minimizing the foundational and architectural capabilities of their products. In this manner, feature development is incremental and avoids risky rewrite phases, that often kill ventures. Unfortunately, it is more common than not for ventures to slow down, disappoint customers and investors, stop onboarding customers and even fail as flimsy products begin to fail under load or complex requirements, and then require total rewrites.

The 8base Platform was born so that creators could build incrementally from inception to MVP and then to hypergrowth without ever requiring a rewrite of their application.

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