Why is Poland one of the best places to outsource software development?

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We spent a lot of time looking at developers,

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and we've actually gone through this process before and had bad

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experiences with with developers.

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We were a complete new startup,

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and we decided to go with outsource because of the

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possibility of quickly expanding a team or

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start with a smaller team and quickly expanding if need comes.

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For the past eight or nine years,

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I've been working with an offshore development team over

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in India, and I I grew tired of the

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process to develop anything.

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Choosing the right direction for software development is one

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of the greatest dilemmas of modern businesses.

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We ask our clients which factors encourage them to pick

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Poland.

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I'd I there was a lack of input.

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I there was a lot of work on my end to be able to build

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everything out for them and it described things very very specifically.

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And so when we searched for a new provider,

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we didn't wanna look in India.

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So then we started looking elsewhere.

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We actually ended up looking in America first.

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We tried working with a couple local shops,

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that did not end up working out either.

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So then we started to do a lot more research.

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We found that Europe in general actually had the best

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programmers in the world based on different various reports

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that are out there and so we focused on Europe.

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When we started this, we did look at different teams

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from different areas of the world.

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And what we noticed across the span was the further west you

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went or the further east you went,

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the less input on the product they wanted to have in the east

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and the more input they wanted in the west.

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And the further east you came,

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the more they wanted you to tell exactly what you want,

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and then they could build it.

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And we found the middle way in Poland to be good

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technological expertise,

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but also willingness to learn about the project and having

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kind of a bouncing back and forth the ideas.

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The skills of the developers are very important

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in the sense that we we want to make sure that the UI is

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is is good and easy to use,

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but we also need understanding from the developers.

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And business analysis, and understanding is so important

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to having the the product, you know,

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really come out how you want it to.

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We don't need them to understand something different

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than we're trying to convey,

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and I think that Marek Studio really did a great job of of

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understanding what we needed.

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We were going between Merixstudio and a company out of Ukraine

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and also a company out of Russia,

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and ultimately what what happened was we really liked

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the proven processes that Merixstudio had in place,

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we liked the documentation that they had,

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we liked the formal process,

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we really liked the idea of a workshop and being able to have

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these conversations and discuss everything so that's when we

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ended up working with Merixstudio and choosing them.

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And then going through with the workshop,

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I was really we were all very excited about it.

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We liked the idea of doing it in person.

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I felt like they would be,

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much more efficient.

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We could save a lot of time.

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We could be able to expedite the process and and really

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get the project off and and and working very well from the very beginning.

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So we we went look globally and Poland

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came up on the list.

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And so Merixstudio reached out to us,

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when we requested an RFP, and basically,

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they had the best pitch.

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They they were very professional.

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Every, every time we got into detail

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about, certain parts of our, product,

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they were very, very interested in in what we needed

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and questioned why we did certain things,

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and and that made us very attracted to to their

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attention to detail and and the product itself.

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The fact that we started a year before the pandemic really

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started gave us the chance to get,

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yeah, more working together with the dedicated team and

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actually work on Slack channels or work on our communication

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skills basically, which meant that when the

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pandemic came, we had a much easier time.

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So the fact is we haven't been here for two years now,

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and now we're visiting to make sure that everything or set a

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new set a new lines for the project going forward.

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We're hoping to grow now and to expand our team in Merricks and

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to, yeah, basically take the next step into a medium to

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larger sized company where we can deliver yeah,

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have more customers and deliver more engagement to our, yeah, the end users.