Node.js Backend Development Case Studies

• Vacation rental software
• Microservices migration
• Marketplace
• Real Estate Software
• Geolocation integration
• AI Development

Lake, US: Brocoders replaced the WordPress monolith with a NestJS back end and a Next.js front end and built real-time sync with property managers' PMSs through Calry, in 3 months from start to release. Six PMS partnerships now feed the marketplace, and property managers who refused to list before the rebuild list now.

• Geolocation integration
• Real Estate Software
• AI Development

AreaButler, Germany: since 2022 a Brocoders senior engineering pod has built the interactive and 3D location maps, the GPT text engine that writes in the agent's style, server-side map rendering on AWS SQS, and the onOffice and Propstack integrations that push the brochure into the broker's CRM. 8,000+ real estate professionals in 27 countries use it.

• AI Development
• SaaS
• Sales Training Software

HeyPractice, Germany: Brocoders audited the codebase the company had inherited, kept the database and product logic, and rebuilt the API, business logic and React frontend on AWS, from October 2021 to production in 5 months. The pod grew from 2 to 8 people and shipped speech-to-text feedback in German and English on IBM Watson after AssemblyAI could not deliver German.

• Telehealth app
• SaaS

CoreHealth, UK: when the previous contractor left an outdated codebase and a major customer set a 6-week deadline, Brocoders' team of five delivered the doctor consultation platform with video calls, booking and Stripe payments on React and Node.js, from discovery in July 2023 to the MVP in October. The work grew into three platforms: the consultation product, a pharmacy SaaS with online prescriptions, and a telehealth solution for prisons on Samsung tablets.

• Geolocation integration
• Marketplace

Gokada, Lagos: Brocoders built the rider and driver apps in React Native, the Node.js back end and the admin panel, with Mapbox and Google Maps for routing and Paystack for cashless payment, from July 2018 to the first release in early 2019. 1,000+ drivers took 1.5 million ride requests, daily requests grew 2.5x in the first six months, and Gokada raised a $5.3M Series A.

• SaaS
• Telehealth app

Geriana, Poland: Brocoders built the two-sided platform where families post care jobs and verified caregivers, nurses, physiotherapists and masseurs send proposals, with shortlisting, interview invitations, contract signing, Paylane payments and in-app chat, on React and Ruby on Rails on AWS. A team of five shipped the first release in 2018, and the platform went live at geriana.com.

• Loyalty Rewards App

MyCurrency, Vancouver: since 2018 Brocoders has built the iOS and Android app in React Native against the founder's own Ruby on Rails API, with personal currencies, currency stores, QR-code redemption, currency-for-currency trades between users and a Craigslist integration that posts MyCurrency listings to craigslist.org. A business launches its loyalty program from the app for free and redeems points by scanning the customer's QR code.

• SaaS
• Personal finance app

MoolaX, US: a Brocoders team of four built the cash flow MVP for freelancers and contractors on Next.js, Node.js and Stripe, with a cashflow dashboard, profit tracker, expense monitor, payer manager and analytics that generate 17 insights, aimed at release six months from the start. 100+ users joined the launch waitlist in the first 2 weeks.

• Geolocation integration
• Logistics App
• Field Service Management Software
• SaaS

Revenue Boosters, Kentucky: when the amusement operator's route management system stopped working for lack of maintenance, Brocoders built the replacement in 3.5 months: a React Native app for collectors, a web admin panel for machines and reports, and a multi-tenant NestJS back end with Google Maps and Geoapify routing. A team of four delivered it on time and within budget, built so the operator can resell it to similar businesses.

• Resource Management Platform
• Custom Scheduling
• Field Service Management Software
• ERP

Backbone International, Netherlands: since June 2018 Brocoders has built the event production platform on React and Node.js, with scheduling, activity and supplier management, transport scheduling, equipment tracking, role-based access for staff, suppliers and clients, and shared call sheets. More than 20 events run through it with about 90 suppliers.

• HRTech
• Resource Management Platform

COMTECH LLC, US: Brocoders built Skilent, recruiting software for hiring managers, recruiters and candidates with job search, dashboards, a calendar, a messenger and a bounty points rewards system, on React and Node.js; the MVP took 5 to 6 months to spring 2019 and a second phase followed in 2020. When almost 20,000 active users hit a load problem, the team cut page load to 3 to 5 seconds and sized the system for 100,000.

• Food Delivery App

Beyond Green Sustainable Food Partners, Chicago: from June 2020 Brocoders built the online meal ordering platform on React and Node.js, where schools order from a dashboard with a calendar and the provider manages customers and orders in an admin panel. It generates four report types: financial, container label, production and delivery.

• Food Delivery App

Korobox, Brocoders' own product: from September 2019 we built the iOS and Android app for office honesty snack boxes in React Native and Node.js, with QR and barcode scanning, cash and Stripe card payments, calorie tracking and an admin panel for office managers. Micropayments are bundled weekly before settlement so the Stripe fee does not eat the price of a snack; active development is suspended.

• SaaS
• Progressive Web App Development
• Mental health app
• Telehealth app

LadderOut, Sweden: Brocoders built the research-based recovery program for a self-funded founder on Ruby on Rails and React, with eight recovery modules, relapse, skills and journal modules, and a support-person invite for parents, friends and psychologists. The psychologist kept changing the program during and after development, and the team shipped the amendments without disrupting users' progress.

• Microservices migration
• Wearable Device Integration

A US training equipment manufacturer in business since 1989: since 2021 Brocoders' Node.js team has integrated Strava, Garmin, Google Fit, Oura Ring and Amazon Halo into its interactive workout app through a separate data exchange module that prevents duplicate data across services. The team worked around Strava's rate limit of 100 requests per 15 minutes and 1,000 a day as the user base grew.

• SaaS
• Gamification

Adact, Estonia: since 2021 Brocoders has rebuilt the marketing gamification platform from PHP and jQuery onto React, Next.js, Node.js and AWS Lambda, with game templates, multi-user accounts, a real-time analytics dashboard and a Zapier integration. Marketers launch campaigns without the custom game development that used to cost $15,000+ and take 2 to 5 months; one campaign collected 18,000 leads in 10 days.

• SaaS
• Social Media Analytics Tool

Hypeboard, US: in 2019 Brocoders built the React Native app on AWS that connects to the Instagram API, ranks profiles by category with a dynamic algorithm, and shows daily, weekly and monthly statistics for any profile and for the user's own. Users sign up with Instagram, pick categories and track their position.

A private gym: in 2019 Brocoders built the management system on Node.js and React, with membership and pricing admin, key card and turnstile access control, PoS payment integration, fitness cafe menus, warehouse accounting and analytics, with an electrical engineer on the team for the hardware. Five years on, 30% of the gym's profit comes from the extra services and products the system sells.

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