Railsware

I’m the CEO of Milo, a customer retention system for loan officers and real estate agents which uses personalized engagement tools and market intelligence to boost client conversations, close more deals, and increase referrals from existing databases.

We needed help with platform security, scalability, and new feature development.

Railsware started by performing a thorough audit at no charge. We then tasked them with implementing the recommendations of the audit and helping us with the high-difficulty work necessary for our new product release. They’ve refactored our report generation process to make it more efficient, fixed bugs, and made it more scalable. Regarding new feature development, they’ve built our report design studio, which allows customers to have their own unique report template.

We’ve worked with one senior engineer from Railsware.

They were referred to me by our CTO and co-founder who had used them at a previous job.

The project cost is confidential.

We started working together in February 2026, and the engagement is ongoing.

Railsware has fixed bugs and successfully deployed new features. Our report generation rate has gone from 92% to over 98.5%, which is now best in class.

We manage our own projects with them, but the quality of engineering is excellent. We communicate via virtual meetings, emails, and messaging apps.

The seniority of Railsware’s engineers is impressive. No other contractor has been so highly skilled and competent.

No, there aren’t any.

I’m the founder and CEO of an IT company that helps marketing teams manage their campaigns.

We needed to create a new version of our product.

Railsware has provided full-stack development for our product using Ruby on Rails and React.

We’ve worked with 2–5 teammates from Railsware.

We found them through an online search. We chose them because they had high ratings, their pricing fit our budget, and they offered good value for the cost.

We worked together from October 2025 to June 2026.

Railsware has delivered a working product that we can iterate on. The product is still a work in progress, so we don’t have any specific feedback from users yet. However, the product seems to be in good shape, and we’re hoping to launch it soon.

Railsware has delivered on time and is very fast at working on tasks. We communicate via virtual meetings, emails, and messaging apps.

One of Railsware’s engineers is really good and can understand and adapt to the complex requirements we’ve specified. Those requirements have evolved as a result of new information and insights revealed during the product build.

At the start of the project, one of the engineers felt a bit junior and had a hard time keeping up. Having a more senior engineer would have helped us get the start going well. However, once things settled, the project went smoothly.

I’m the co-founder & CEO of Seedtime LLC, a garden planning platform. Users can manually adjust their plantings, create succession plantings, and it makes it a lot easier to visualize and plan out what to grow and when to grow it.

We needed an agency to develop our web app.

Railsware developed our web app using Ruby on Rails. They also used React and JavaScript on the frontend.

We worked with two developers and one UI/UX person from their team.

We did Google searches and used Clutch as well. We interviewed several development agencies but felt that Railsware came out on top for multiple reasons. One reason is they have a full in-house team that could do the development, design, and UI work that we wanted. We also appreciated that they build and sell their apps from scratch — they’re familiar with the entire process from making to marketing and supporting customers.

We spent $200,000–$300,000 with them.

We worked together from June 2021–February 2022.

We’d be interested in hiring them again; they could accomplish most of our goals. We’ve also had excellent reviews from our customers using the app — they appreciated the product that Railsware developed for us.

Project management was excellent. We used Jira and Slack for communication.

They were very good at communication and execution and worked exceptionally well. They also had an excellent sign-on process to ensure everyone was on the same page.

I don't think there's anything they can improve on — we worked very well with them.

Remain in good contact with their team; they’re excellent at communication, and that’s critical to success. Also, go through their initiation process because it’s highly valuable, and it will help bring clarity to your project.

I’m the co-founder of One Pod Wonder. We’re a podcast agency that produces shows for various companies and platforms.

We realized that one of the most time-consuming parts of making podcasts was the revision process. When we share our shows with different companies, they’ll have to check it and see if they want to change anything. Right now, we have to send various links back and forth as well as receive comments on WhatsApp or Facebook.

We came to Railsware with only the idea and lots of inspiration on how we want to look and feel. We had absolutely nothing done so for. It was our goal to get to an MVP within a year. We wanted the MVP to work for us and be shipped to some of our customers. The MVP will be an online solution.

We work with Stanislav (Product Manager) and Alex (Engineer).

We did some research for German agencies. Our team spoke with them but weren’t really satisfied with what they had built in the past so far. We weren't fond of their projects. Then, I heard a “How I Built This” podcast that referenced Railsware. After listening to that podcast, I went on Google and found them. I sent a message and talked with them. I really liked how professional they were and what they had to offer so we decided to go with them.

We’ve invested $40,000–$50,000.

Our ongoing engagement started around December 2020.

We’re very happy, especially from the product management side, about how helpful they are with all the tools they named us. Railsware has been very flexible because at the beginning we didn’t have a lot of money or budget. They tell us what we need to do and what the next steps are. That has been incredibly helpful for us. We’re extremely pleased with what they’ve done so far.

They quick to respond. Any delay that happens is from our side because we’re still a functioning agency. Sometimes, they have to wait on us to finish certain tasks. Their team is quite involved. We meet on a weekly basis to discuss progress. Our teams usually communicate on Slack.

They’re incredibly professional. I feel that the journey we’re on, they’ve done it a hundred times and know exactly what to look for. They know how to do user testing and everything else with as little budget and time as possible. Railsware is so up to date. They know every tool that’s available on the market right now. We’re learning so much just from working with them.

No, I don’t see any needed improvement on their side. We’re super happy with them.

I highly recommend working with Railsware. Our experience has been great; not to mention, their track record of products they’ve built is amazing. I haven’t seen that from any agency comparable to their size in Germany. Even just talking to them can give you a good overview of what your product could look like, how much money you need, etc.

I’m a co-founder of Primary Record. We’re a family-based collaborative electronic health record system focused on parents, aging parents, and medically complex children.

We wanted to organize a lot of our thoughts on what we wanted to do. We brought them on to do product management and design.

The project was scoped around getting to a testable MVP or clickable mockup of our product. Railsware started with a definition process and revisiting all of the problems. They painted the picture of all the users and stakeholders as well as mapped out all the problems, covering any areas that could pose a risk or hadn’t been discussed yet.

We worked with a product manager, product designer, and an engineering architect.

We heard about them through a reference on the "How I Built This" NPR podcast. There was a case study where someone said they found Railsware and really liked their approach. We took that recommendation and contacted them. Our team liked the founders and how they were willing to work with us. They were willing to work at our pace and do everything that needed to be done to get this initial goal.

We invested between $35,000–$40,000.

Our engagement was from November 2020–February 2021.

We were making progress on a regular basis in order to hit our goal as far as the timeline to test. We were getting validation from testers that the quality was good.

Communication was excellent. We asked for a product designer and they gave us a product manager who also did project planning. We worked with the team and that’s how they operate.

We were impressed that they were more focused on ensuring the initial product was designed, feasible, and had value instead of just filling hours. It was clear that they wanted to have a good product that they could continue to work with. The better they built it, the more invested they are in continuing a relationship. Railsware really took ownership and stake even though they were the provider.

We had to work in some capacity. Sometimes, they were having a lot of success so lining up a time to work with an engineer or product designer was somewhat difficult to discern demand.

Trust in their process, and make sure that everyone is aligned on their goals.