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How To Find Product/Market Fit Once You Released Your MVP
Many technology startups fail because they waste too much time and money building things no one needs. 90% startups end up collapsing, and the majority of them do so because they lack product/market fit.
Monterail in the Financial Times 1000 List for the Second Time
Last year was proof that we can not only deliver meaningful, top-quality software for our partners but we also get recognized for our hard work and business results. We’re really proud to announce that Monterail was...
Guild Case Study: How We Used React Native to Share Over 80% of Code Between iOS, Android, and The Web
We started working with Guild around eighteen months ago, back when Ashley Friedlein and Matthew O’Riordan approached us with their idea for a messaging app for professional communication—a WhatsApp for business, as...
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React Native vs. NativeScript in 2019 - Which One to Choose?
Cross-platform development has always been tricky—in exchange for lower costs and shorter development timeframes, developers had to sacrifice either some of the performance or some of the user experience. With the...
Expert series: The Role of Data in Boosting Employee Engagement
In today’s world, organizations collect and use all sorts of data. And data fuels and sits at the heart of much of modern HR tools. While everyone is more or less aware of that fact, questions continue to abound about...
How to Design Your HR Tech App—Good UX and UI Practices
It is universally accepted that HR software design must, naturally, obey the general rules of good app design. Whether large or small, rudimentary or feature-rich, they ought to be clear and easy to use in order to...
How to Sell Your HR App—Good Practices in HR Software Communication
We spent the last few months creating a bunch of apps for the HR market, like Cooleaf or Guild. The process required top-notch software design and we hope the final product will draw large crowds of satisfied users. But...
Software Quality Standards—How and Why We Applied ISO 25010
When I first heard about ISO/IEC 25010 in 2017, I was still taking my first baby steps in the world of software quality assurance. The last time I heard it mentioned, meanwhile, was at Quality Excites, the nationwide...
Privacy-Focused Apple Sign-In—What Does It Mean for Your App?
Do you recall those Facebook and Google buttons that allow you to sign in to almost any app nowadays? Well, soon they won’t be the only option available to you and your app users. At the latest annual World Wide...
How to Decide on a Tech Stack Suitable for HR Software - App Examples
The technology stack remains a key issue in almost every kind of application you build. Projected bandwidth demand, Web app type, business goals, potential extensibility—all these variables have to be taken into account...
Why Choose Elixir?
Some time ago, I was discussing the possibilities of Kotlin and Elixir with a colleague. Our rather academic exchange only lent further credence to the notion that every developer has their own specific point of view...
Why Knowledge Sharing is Key to Your Software Development Project—How It Works at Monterail
Most software development companies boast about the knowledge sharing going on inside their teams and even publish job offers featuring catchy gems like: "Great working place where you can learn from the best and grow."...
Pros And Cons of React Native Development According to Programmers and Business Owners
React Native, next to PWA, was called a revolution in cross-platform app development and delivering great mobile experience. Shareable code repository? Reusable components? That definitely sounds tempting. React Native...
Implementing HR Tech into Your Company
By introducing technology into standard everyday operations, HR departments can speed up a number of the processes and operational aspects that they customarily handle, including recruitment, performance evaluations, or...
Choosing the Right Software Development Company for Your Project—12 Pieces of Advice
The right technology stack is only half the battle when it comes to securing the success of your future project. Think of it like this—each element in the stack is a good-quality brick that can be used to build your...
How AI Is Transforming Human Resources
Saturated with ever-increasing amounts of data and robust and affordable computing technologies, artificial intelligence is branching out into more and more diverse industries and areas of life. Business-wise, AI has...
EQ & AI in Team Performance Software — Key Takeaways from Our HR Tech Event in Berlin
The end of June was a special time for Monterail as it marked the inaugural event of our Digital Transformation Through Meaningful Software series (any associations with our mission fully justified!). The whole idea for...
Make Your PWA Work Offline Part 2 - Dynamic Data
As you probably remember from my previous post on making your Progressive Web App work offline, storing static files in the cache can be of great help when there’s no Internet connection available. Yet, achieving full...
8 HR Tech Trends That Will Influence Your Business in 2020
By design, Human Resources is all about people. But does it mean that we should keep it away from technology? Quite the contrary. Does it mean that we’ll be using robots to find and hire people? That’s highly probable....
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