TOP 10 ACHIEVEMENTS OF CODERIDERS IN 2020

Yerevan 2020: People are thrilled to say au revoir to 2020. Many of us, look forward to the new year with new aspirations and faith in positive shifts. CodeRiders software development house is also optimistic about new exciting events. On this pragmatic note, let's sum up 2020 and recall CodeRiders' top 10 achievements this year.

So here are the 10 most significant achievements of CodeRiders in 2020 as a custom software development house and how did we get here.

1. CodeRiders became the most efficient software development company by TopDevelopers.co

It’s always such a pleasure to be appreciated both by clients, notable directory, and review platforms of B2B IT service providers or well-respected, honorable awards. Luckily, CodeRiders also had a chance to reap the fruits of success. One of CodeRiders’ achievements was to be included in a press release of the most efficient software development companies by TopDevelopers.co.

2. CodeRiders is nominated for Global Startup awards

CodeRiders was honored to be awarded as "Best Software Development Partner" in 2019 by EuroAsian Startup Awards. Now it’s time to take part in the Global Startup Awards which will take place virtually (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) at the beginning of 2021. The company is nominated in the category of “People’s Choice – Startup”.
The goal of EASA is to filter out the most efficient software development companies across the world, make a list of local industry game-changers and promote them towards their journey to international expansion. The selected companies are given a chance to enlarge their global network of experts, cooperates, media, and investors, meantime sustain custom software development trends. The regional finalists are automatically transferred to the Global Startup Awards which is the world’s largest no-pitch, non-conference startup competition. It partners with globally recognized industry experts and investors such as Google and Microsoft.

3. CodeRiders went remote in March and created a combination of comfort and efficiency

Due to the widely spread COVID-19 pandemic and the massive lockdown, team CodeRiders went remote in March 2020. The atmosphere in CodeRiders has always been very comfy and friendly as besides being colleagues all the team members are closely connected (childhood friends, family members, etc.), thus it was a little hard for the staff to go remote. Nevertheless, this didn’t disturb the strict discipline and serious approach to the job.

On the other hand, if we look at the situation from the professional point of view, shifting to remote working wasn’t huge stress for the staff. The thing is the company is based in Armenia, but it only worked for the international market. CodeRiders' clients are from the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. They communicate remotely (sometimes travel to meet them personally as well). The team uses various methodologies and tools like Trello, Agile, Slack, Kanban, and others, and always holds daily/weekly calls for reporting.

There are 2 assets that I think make CodeRiders software development house different from other companies.

First, all the team members are close friends (even childhood), share family ties as well. Many professionals will doubt this working strategy with an argument of less discipline and unattained business development plan. The good thing is they deal with this quite well, and use it in their favor. All the team members share the same motto and passion for the company’s prosperity. Not only do they manage to keep a strict routine, but they also remove the frigid approach to the company and its tasks, which sometimes becomes one of the serious hardships in the businesses.

CodeRiders software development company was initially established as a software development school. In just a year, the school gave more than 800 alumni, the best out of which have become today’s medium and senior developers. Other students are successfully operating in the IT industry and are competent professionals. CodeRiders still keeps in touch with their alumni and have a large pool of experts. For example, in 2019, the company welcomed one of its previous students. So whenever there is a need for more professionals, CodeRiders is capable of inviting qualified experts to work on a one-time specific project.

4. CodeRiders gave a start to the development process of an application, which will enter the market next year

The company is thrilled to announce the start of a new startup project which will make the drivers and car service providers’ life easier. As it is still under development and is not in the market yet, the company promises to give more details in the near future as soon as it's released.

5.CodeRiders started 2 new strategic partnerships and finished a long-lasting co-operation

In 2020, CodeRiders finished a large project for a Hong Kong-based English school. The team built both mobile and web applications for the school. The app is built by a hybrid mobile app development methodology. It connects teachers, students, and parents, and is for internal use only. It has functionalities like:

● Calendaring to schedule classes
● Sorting the classes by student levels
● Adding books, movies, dictionary words taught during the class to the specific student's database
● Making quizzes based on the individual dictionary words and books (btw, the quiz part is a little bit gamified)
● Assigning tasks for teachers
● Writing individual reviews for students
● Sending meeting appointment invitations to parents, etc.
Regarding our 2 new strategic partnerships, we’re currently working on building an app that supports property rental and tenant support and a wealth management platform together with a banking application.

6. Riders updated and upgraded all their equipment and technical resources

A smooth and successful business development plan should start with convenience and advanced technical equipment. So, Riders put much attention to this and in 2020 have updated and upgraded all its equipment and technical resources for the employees.

7. The team created an internship opportunity

Although today the company isn't organizing software development courses, the company never stopped its masterplan of providing training. The team believes before welcoming new employees, it's important to make sure that they’re well informed and educated about the company, aim, motto, and business approach. CodeRiders also believes that new, fresh professionals should have an opportunity to reach the top of their career․ So in spring the team CodeRiders created an internship opportunity for those who are eager to enter the world of software development and have a passion to learn more.

8. CodeRiders welcomed 3 more employees and welcomed back one of its devoted teammates.

The internship opportunity CodeRiders created in spring helped the company enlarge its team with new team members. So the company is excited to welcome the new Riders to the team this year. In the meantime, the company’s management and administration team does its best to make CodeRiders software development company “a hard-to-leave workspace”. CodeRiders was thrilled to welcome back their friend and a qualified developer, David.

9. CodeRiders added Flutter, Dart, C#, .Net, React, and WordPress technologies to the core tech stack:

While the company always positions itself as mainly a PHP, Laravel, and JavaScript oriented company, this year the team did its best to enlarge the company's tech stack with new technologies adding Flutter, Dart, C#, .Net, React, and WordPress. The core tech stack, includes PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, MySQL, jQuery, Restful APIs, Angular, Ionic, Vue.js, Node.js, Python, etc.

In 2020, CodeRiders experienced tremendous growth in hybrid mobile application development. The problem is native mobile app development is for a specific app device. The 2 main ones include iOS and Android. This in its turn, causes some problems. Below is one of them.

Native mobile app development requires 2 different software development processes, one for IOS users and one for Android. As a result, it’s basically like repeating the same working cycle twice. Meantime, more developers are needed to work separately on each process. Sometimes, various software development companies are being hired for these purposes. Thus, it’s logical that native app development is more expensive. Especially if you’re working with a time and material model, where developers work at an hourly rate. On the other hand, there is a scarcity of native app developers, which causes additional inconvenience and difficulties.

10. The company gave a start to animation videos
Besides boosting CodeRiders blog, the team decided to provide more useful and interactive content to its followers and clients. To make its customers’ experience more entertaining CodeRiders gave a start to animation videos about its routine and what it means to work at CodeRiders. In the upcoming 2021, the company plans to make short videos of their gurus as well where they’ll share their experience and express their professional opinion about the pros and cons of specific technologies.

Bonus point. CodeRiders boosted its blog and actively covered tech topics

CodeRiders is proud of its content writing team which could successfully cover and boost trending topics and CodeRiders news. The company is also planning to publish its own analytics and business studies in the form of diagrams, pictures, charts as well as differentiate blog articles based on the topics. So, I recommend keeping up with CodeRiders blog in 2021. CodeRiders is planning to be more informative both concerning technical topics and business development, tips for finding efficient custom software development companies, and IT trends.

Make sure, to check CodeRiders website for more information.

CodeRiders
Suite A209
Abelyan 6/1, Yerevan
https://www.coderiders.am/
Srbuhi Avetisyan

CodeRiders is a software development company with a wide-ranging set of technology capabilities to build solutions for your business needs.

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