Best SaaS Frameworks For Agencies
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Saas &
Micro-Saas
Marketplaces &
Network-Centric Applications
Serverless GraphQL Backend and more.
Auto-generated GraphQL for powering your applications.
Use GraphQL to access your Salesforce.com instance.
Pricing to meet developer and business needs.
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The 8base Labs Team designs and builds your frontend UI/UX.
The backend is the hard part and why most products fail.
The 8base Platform makes this part easy.
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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.
We are experts at designing and building state-of-the art single-page, API-first web applications.
We can help you design and build fully responsive web apps, progressive-web apps and native mobile apps.
We help you design and build MVPs in a few weeks. Unlike most MVPS, ours are durable and become your ultimate product.
Oftentimes, great frontends are built on top of flimsy backends. We can help you reinforce your foundation using the 8base Platform.
Companies have hundreds or thousands of applications they've used for years that are outdated, unsupported and expensive to maintain.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
From individual developers right up to large teams in enterprise environments. But the majority of our users meet some, if not all, of the following criteria:
- Want to use a modern front-end framework (web or mobile).
- Don’t want to maintain backend infrastructure.
- Prefer to iterate and release projects quickly.
- Prefer to build things correctly and for scale from inception.
And, let's not forget entrepreneurs, business executives, and product managers who may be the biggest beneficiaries of 8base projects because they are done quickly, with compact teams, and built to scale the first time around.
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.
Our interests are aligned with yours — we want you up and running quickly on the 8base Platform and successfully executing on and growing your business.
To this end, 8base typically works on projects on a fixed time / fixed price basis. We go the extra mile up-front to ensure there is a very good understanding of needs to be built before committing; however, we also understand that clients don't always know everything they need/want when they start. Our unique approach allows you to change your mind along the way, within reason, and still operate under a predefined budget.
We sometimes carve out certain aspects of the project, such as integrations with legacy systems, on a time-and-materials basis, due to the uncertainty of time and effort required.
After the initial project is over the 8base Design and Development Team can either transition the project to you or remain involved on either a fixed-price, per-sprint or per-hour basis.
The 8base Team engages each new client engagement as if we are going to turn the project over to a full-time team employed by our client.
When a client chooses to assume responsibility for the ongoing development and maintenance of the application(s), the 8base Team transfers responsibility for all code repositories, test scripts, software-development-lifecycle systems and others to the client and remains available for support on a time-and-materials basis.
If the client chooses to have 8base continue to take the lead, then we have options for remaining engaged that range from additional fixed-price phases of work to hourly rates.
8base enjoys incredibly close relationships with clients because we not only help with design and development, but become their ongoing platform solution. Because of this, we sometimes help clients financially by spreading the costs of our services over a longer period of time and without charging any interest. The decision to finance a project is made on a case-by-case basis and approved by 8base's CFO.
Our philosophy has always been one of employing standards in our platform, wherever possible. Here are some specific topics to consider:
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.
8base Platform accelerates software development and maintainability by providing a significant set of capabilities that make up important parts of a client's applications. All code developed for customers during our engagements with them or client-code that runs on the 8base Platform, and any data that is stored on 8base, remains the property of the client.
There's no denying that the process of building software is complex and difficult for any organization to master. This is why companies turn to specialized service providers that know the ins and outs of the process to assist them.
At 8base, we challenge the status quo of build-from-scratch software development which is why we invested millions into the development of the 8base Platform. Our unique approach leverages a platform-first approach whereby we work to utilize as much of the 8base Platform as possible to satisfy the client's needs and then code to deliver the entirety of the client's vision for their digital product.
To augment the capabilities of our platform and assist our clients in the development of amazing digital products, we also provide a number of custom software development services including:
These services can be provided for purposes of:
There are a number of major steps involved in software development. These generally include: