Mercury Development

I led the engineering team for a fitness technology startup that went through major growth.

We worked with Mercury to augment our staff at lower cost and to support 24/7 development. They contributed across the technology stack, but in particular in app development and qa.

The were highly recommended by a few colleagues, and did such a phenomenal job that we get growing with them.

They provided engineers to develop in Android, Flutter, Python, Golang, AWS, and QA. They worked as part of the development team working in two-week sprints, developing outstanding, clean code, and testing the entire stack to support weekly releases.

We started with a small team of 3-4 people and ended up working with a team of 50+. They were able to find great talent to support our growing needs.

I have never seen such high quality code from a contract organization. They contributed to existing features but also let the development of a number of initiatives including completely rebuilding the key portion of our primary application.

It could not have been more effective. Communication was fantastic and regular on Slack, Email, and in meetings. The team joined meetings, reviewed code, contributed ideas, and took feedback very well.

The quality of the code. We are shocked at how few comments we put in their PRS because the quality of their work is so high. They have incredibly talented engineers.

No, I will continue to work with this group.

I was a program manager at the IT department of a managed dental care organization. Our company was bought out a year ago.

We didn’t have in-house app development expertise, so we hired Mercury.

Mercury developed an iOS mobile app from scratch for us. We provided the wireframes during the RFP process. The app was intended to be used for dental facility audits, so we had the team build a custom survey module that could enable users to create or answer questions. It also had picture scanning, appointment scheduling, document signing, cost reporting, and location tracking functionalities.

Mercury provided us with two sets of people: one working on the application development, and an extended team working with us on the acquisition and other projects and needs. They had around 40 people in total, which included developers, business analysts, and project managers. I was mainly in contact with the project managers.

We found Mercury through Clutch. They were one of the many companies we interviewed, but we ultimately decided to work with them because they had an office near ours. At the time, we were looking for a more local company.

By now, we’ve probably spent over $5 million.

We started working together in the summer of 2018, and our partnership is still ongoing.

We’ve not been able to fully utilize the applications since the pandemic, but I can say that Mercury has successfully completed the first development within the timeframe that they specified and within our budget. Their involvement has also helped us secure a new customer for our commercial plans, which is something that we’ve never done before. We would not have been able to do it without their team’s help.

Their project managers are very technical. I don’t need to interface with anyone else because they relay the information to the rest of the team. What I like about them is their ability to think knowledgeably about everything that’s happening. They’re close to becoming experts in our business, products, and technology.

The most impressive thing about Mercury is their knowledgeability. Even if they're not familiar with a certain topic or industry, they're able to easily pick up on it. We like that, though we initially hired them to do mobile app development, we were able to expand on their role and have them do all kinds of development for us.

No, I cannot think of anything. Our only issue is with our time difference, but there’s nothing we can do about it and their team has been accommodating regardless.

Maintain good communication with the team. Mercury is able to make decisions and recommendations on your behalf, which is something you can take advantage of, but the more detail you can provide them, the better.

I’m the CEO of Aurios Medical. We manufacture optical coherence tomography devices used in the treatment of intravascular diseases — hardware and software components used to see inside of the human artery.

Our hardware devices interface with software in order to show readings to doctors and patients. We needed to develop an interface and specialized analysis software.

Mercury develops software that interfaces with our specialized devices.

There are six people from Mercury involved in this project.

This wasn’t a typical project, given the hardware we’re using. We were looking for a company that could handle this kind of C++ code and specialized medical devices. A friend introduced one of Mercury’s members to me. They had the right experience and a good portfolio, which is why we chose them.

We started working with Mercury in January 2016, and the project is ongoing.

We spent quite a lot of money to develop this product, and I had some concerns about working with foreign developers that we couldn’t meet in person. However, Mercury has been very active. They’ve given us a lot of recommendations, and they have good expertise in this kind of development project. Beyond doing their job, they’ve given us a lot of ideas and kept ongoing communication with us. We’re on the right track to develop this software successfully.

They didn’t just handle development; Mercury has also advised us on the development of this software. The project has involved a lot of designers and developers working together, and the management team’s also been involved in the work, which is helpful for us.

Their level of enthusiasm for this project is impressive, and it’s been nice working with them.

I’m mainly satisfied with their service, but one downside is that some of their developers can’t speak English. The project manager is fluent, so there were no hurdles there, but we’ve had some trouble with developer-to-developer communication. There’s some latency between our internal developers and theirs. This has been the only inconvenience in working with Mercury.

Before starting the work with Mercury, clients need to prepare a lot of the specifications around what they want to develop. This is helpful in estimating the timeline of the project and the number of people that need to be involved.

I am the CTO of a health-tech startup that's mission is to help caregivers and patients relieve their mental burden by organizing and tracking their healthcare data.

We had developed a responsive web and iOS version of our app and were in need of an Android version to satisfy the needs of our growing user base.

Our goals were to develop an Android app that had the core features of the other client versions we have released in order to increase user engagement.

We searched a wide variety of mobile app development shops, weighed the options of hiring internally / freelancing routes and landed on Mercury after whittling the list down to 3 top options.

We started with a few discover calls and sent over our iOS codebase for the team to review in detail. We worked with Mercury on scope, timeline and rough cost of the project based on our expectation of a v1 release. Throughout the development process we had weekly calls to review progress and communicate feedback.

We started with a project manager which we communicated with on a weekly basis and a dev team consisting of 1 dev and 1 QA tech. Once we gained momentum on the project we doubled the team to more efficiently meet the time and cost constraints.

The Mercury team was able to achieve an identical version of many of the iOS core features using a completely different language and OS environment.

The workflow and communication was excellent, we leveraged JIRA, google sheets to ensure the features and development time scale was being adhered to at all times.

Their ability to hit the ground running and solve many challenges without our intervention was impressive.

We would have like to move a bit faster but as an engineer myself I release the constraints at hand and opted for a higher quality product vs. a quicker release.

I’m the CEO of GatewayMD, a telemedicine platform that allows users to facetime each other. Physicians can work on their patients remotely through the service.

Finding the right vendor to create a unique and proprietary platform.

When we first started, we spent time crafting and designing the mockups of the platform. After that, the developers went forward and began building. We implemented the best cloud storage and other third-party services that best fit our product. Overall, the majority of the work their team did was writing code.

The team was composed of seven developers. We had a full team composed of a CRO, a development manager, and a group of skilled developers.

We found Mercury Development through a personal referral. Our team would not settle until we found the best team for the project. Mercury Development was the right fit for us, and we were happy with the quality of the product and customer service. They were also competitively priced.

I reached out to Mercury Development in November 2018. The work began in early 2019.

We launched the first version over a month ago, and we’re still working together. There have been a few minor bugs, but that come with the territory. Although we have just launched, we have received good feedback with the accounts that are using our platform so far.

From a project management aspect, they were excellent. Their team performed well. I spoke to their project lead directly about the work they did each week. We used email and Zoom for conference calls. If I had questions or if they needed something from me, we would email. For longer discussions, we just set up another call.

I was impressed with the product quality. Their team is also full of responsive communicators.

Not really. It was a good experience overall.

Make that you know what you want to build and get the price locked in before you start development.