An e-commerce platform for luxury hotels: Merixstudio & Journey

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I'm Tim Wardle. I'm the Technical Director of Journey.

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We're building a one stop shop e commerce

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platform for luxury hotels.

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We were struggling to get talent in the UK,

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so we were looking at offshore

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development

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and we looked at different options.

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We looked at Sri Lanka,

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we looked at hiring freelancers in Europe,

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but one of our partners recommended Merixstudio.

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We came to Poznan and we looked at a few different

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development houses.

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Merixstudio was the one that best fit our culture,

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so chose it.

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We found we were very confident very quickly that it was the right solution.

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There were some concerns.

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I'd had not great experiences with an

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organisation in Sri Lanka before,

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so I was already nervous.

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But I knew from the first call that we had over video

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that it was very

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effective and communication was easy.

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The language barrier was almost non existent and it was really easy.

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Daily communication is really easy.

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We have a daily stand up on a video chat every morning.

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The whole team is involved in that, so we know all the faces.

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And then we have a Slack channel where we can

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talk over instant messenger or hop

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on a video call whenever,

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and I do that maybe a few times a day,

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and then combined with visits here, it's really easy.

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We already had a fully formed team that all had worked

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together before, so we didn't have to worry about that.

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But also, we could just get the skills we needed without any worry, you know,

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we only have to give a few weeks notice to change

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a role for another or add an extra person or

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even reduce if we need it, if the product priority shifted.

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And it's that not having to worry about the talent

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and being able to rely on it that's the real key.

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And honestly, the talent is brilliant.