One-stop solution to consolidate your work in one place and forget about a myriad of open tabs: 5 years of successful cooperation with Apiko Team
Short overview
Team:
20 specialists
Time:
May 2015 - Present
Platform:
Web and mobile apps
Industry:
Productivity, Project management
Services:
Web & mobile development (Windows/Mac/iOS/Android), dedicated team, QA testing
Short overview
Team:
20 specialists
Time:
May 2015 - Present
Platform:
Web and mobile apps
Industry:
Productivity, Project management
Country:
USA
Services:
Web & mobile development
(Windows/Mac/iOS/Android),
dedicated team, QA testing
About the client
Hive is a productivity platform, aimed at solving issues with prioritization, communication challenges and inefficient business processes.
Project idea
How many tools do you use during your working hours? And how many tools do you want to use? Being a process management software, Hive was initially developed to let users forget about juggling numerous tabs and tools while gathering needed information. Your working day may start in one centralized dashboard and stay there until it’s over.
Story
Story
The cofounders of Hive turned to us in 2015 with a progressive idea that should change the way companies manage their projects. Eric Typaldos and John Furneaux wanted to launch a collaboration tool that allows businesses to move faster and accomplish all their tasks within one platform.
Instead of building a better Slack, Evernote, Zoom, Airtable, Monday.com or a hybrid of their power-features, we helped our customers with winning a user journey. We did multilayered work, combining its complex functionality, flexibility and seamless UX, to condense all the activity into one screen. Today, Hive bakes numerous tools and services into a single package, so the user doesn't have to split their brain five different ways.
Since its foundation, Hive has reached great achievements, so we’re proud to be a part of such a successful and proactive team.
A lot of market giants, like Google, Uber, Toyota, IBM and Starbucks became Hive’s customers.
They have increased revenue 32x and raised over $16M of investments across the rounds.
Hive is integrated with more than 1,000 applications to combine messaging, email, calendars, file-sharing and workflow tools into one platform.
Challenges & solutions
See the challenges and solutions we’ve offered to our clients
Rewrite project management software with new Meteor version, ES6, modular structure and more maintainable architecture
Extend the functionality and add various integrations
Improve its efficiency, optimize the workflow, make adjustments
Provide post-release support and further maintenance
Constantly update the software according to customer’s requirements
Starting Point
Our customers came to us with
Minimum Viable Product that has already received first investments
Business vision, concept and objectives
Full inventory of the features necessary for successful project management
Research & Analysis
Actions we took for providing our customers with the A-class result:
Based on the provided documentation, we elicited requirements and defined the scope of work
We conducted the research and analysis of the technologies which can help clients to build a solution of the highest quality
Dedicated team with a proven expertise has been established and assigned to the project
During the development process, we achieved the following outcome:
During 5 years of successful cooperation with Hive, our team has reached the following progress:
Rewriting the MVP version with modular structure, new Meteor version, ES6 and more flexible architecture
Developing project layouts, to-do lists, a built-in chat and AI-driven features to read emails.
Optimizing and extending the functionality to boost visibility for every stakeholder.
What our clients say
Check out what our clients think of us
Apiko is excellent. Their technical ability is top-notch. They actually care about the product and being a part of the team, which is hard to find in contractors. Apiko is emotionally invested in the project 100% of the time. If something is on a tight deadline, they pull together as a team to make sure it is met. If there are any concerns, they make sure to bring it up early to avoid delay. They never compromise quality or anything else to achieve a quicker deadline.
Eric Typaldos
Main features
We helped to deliver the following features
1
Flexible project views
We developed various screens, including Kanban, Gantt, portfolio, calendar, table and summary view to let users throughout the team visualize data in the way that works for them best.
2
Hive chat
Forget about switching tabs to message your teammates. Organize all your private messages or group chats directly in Hive without sorting out a bunch of letters.
3
Personal dashboard
All the actions assigned to a user are gathered in My Actions list to bootstrap your activity. There are four statuses for current, future, completed and assigned by you tasks.
4
Hive analytics
To condense the progress in one screen we added a built-in analytics tool. It enables users to monitor individual and team performance, most productive days or overdue actions by project.
5
Resourcing
Assign your team members for current and upcoming projects, plan and schedule their tasks and manage working hours. Monitor when your colleagues are open for new assignments and see their progress.
6
Project settings
Make configurations of each project before it starts or let your team members set up additional options by themselves.
Dependency, proofing and approvals
There’s no need to spend all day along to track the progress. Simplify approval cycles with the ability to assign approvals, provide feedback and share proofs.Tasks importing
No need to start everything from scratch. Just import all your tasks from the tools you use. Hive is integrated with Asana, Trello, Basecamp, and even more!Forms and templates
To keep up the good work, you can set up repeatable workflows utilizing Hive Templates to reproduce tasks and projects that might be duplicated at a moments’ notice.Notifications
Stay up to date with customizable notifications, that inform you on task status changes, teammates’ activity, time-tracking or actions progress.
Integrations
We've integrated the product with the following services
Technologies
The outcome
Today, Hive is an industry leading company on a mission to improve workplace productivity. We are proud to say that our customers have achieved amazing results and the first client to sign up to Hive still uses it! That’s a case when both the ingenuity of vision and robustness of the toolset burst out and evolved into a well-known platform with thousands of admirers. Since its inception, our dedicated team’s size has increased from 3 to 19 members, as well as Hive’s in-house team. It involves web, mobile and full-stack developers, QAs and tech leads, who manage the activity of each department and guarantee the highest quality of the product. We’re ready to extend a team with needed experts at any time.
We’re pleased to know that Hive wouldn’t be where it is today without our team and hope we’ll keep on cooperating in such synergy and ingenuity.
It's a great honor for us to be a part of the Hive team and share their success! But there’s always an area for improvement and we keep developing constantly, so stay tuned!
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