Product Development & Design Case Studies

Explore how Brocoders built full-featured digital products from scratch — from architecture and design through development, launch, and post-launch iterations.

  • CondoGenie logo

    Condo SaaS modernized without downtime, active users up 14x

    • Microservices migration
    • SaaS
    • Real Estate Software
    • HOA Management
    • ERP

    CondoGenie, Canada: Brocoders replatformed the 2009 platform as multi-tenant SaaS in 2018 and keeps shipping on it, with a Rails upgrade in 2025 and Stripe and Node 24 migrations in 2026. 1,398 active users in 2019 became 19,324 in 2025.

    HeyPractice logo

    Inherited MVP rebuilt with AI feedback in 5 months

    • 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.

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    Gokada motorbike ride-hailing app: 325,000 completed rides in year one

    • 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.

    MyCurrency logo

    Mobile loyalty points that replace stamp cards for small businesses

    • 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.

  • appetini logo

    Food delivery marketplace, first ordering version shipped in 3 days

    • Food Delivery App
    • Marketplace

    Appetini, Brocoders' own product: we built a lunch ordering marketplace for cooks, customers, couriers and admins on React and Ruby on Rails, with LiqPay payments, group ordering, shared carts and courier tracking. The first ordering version took 3 days in December 2017; the product is suspended today.

    Fine logo

    Solar CRM and field app covering 80% of fieldwork

    • Field Service Management Software
    • CleanTech
    • Marketplace

    Anuel Energy (Fine), Kampala: from April 2018 Brocoders built the web system for inventory, supply forecasting, installment payments and stock, and the React Native app that onboards operators and runs field work, on Ruby on Rails and React. The backlog was done in six months, covered 2x the business flows first scoped, and the mobile app took on 80% of field operations.

  • Every pig logo

    Pig health SaaS with AI forecasting for 1,550+ producers

    • SaaS
    • Telehealth app
    • AI Development
    • Livestock Management

    EveryPig, Iowa: since November 2016 Brocoders has built the health and welfare platform on Ruby on Rails and React, with offline mode, multi-timezone support and over 1 million stored images, and added mortality forecasting and disease outbreak prediction. 1,550+ producers and veterinarians use it across the US, Canada and Brazil in 7 languages.

    Every pig logo

    Full-cycle swine logistics platform with GPS route optimization

    • Logistics App
    • Livestock Management
    • Supply Chain Software
    • Geolocation integration

    EveryPig, US: Brocoders built the logistics platform that tracks pigs from breeding sow to packing plant, with GPS mapping and route optimization, admin panels for trucking companies, online contracts, three transport types and five user roles, on Ruby on Rails and React. It is built to replace the Microsoft Access tooling EveryPig's logistics ran on, for 350+ farms.

  • skilent logo

    Three-sided recruiting platform scaled toward 100,000 users

    • 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.

    korobox logo

    Honesty snack box app with Stripe micropayments bundled weekly

    • 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.

  • Ladderout logo

    Recovery coaching software with 11 modules, 1,560+ active users

    • 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.

    Adact logo

    Gamification SaaS rebuilt off PHP and jQuery, 3M+ visitors

    • 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.

  • Gym system with smart turnstiles, 30% profit from extras

      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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      Reinventing our old-hat company website

        Backed by multi-year corporate website development expertise and almost 100 projects under our belt, we reinvented our site to keep pace with modern trends

      Quick Answers to Common Questions

      What does end-to-end product development look like at Brocoders?

      It starts with discovery — understanding the problem, users, and competitive landscape. Then design sprints produce validated UX. Development follows in two-week sprints with regular client reviews. Launch is followed by a stabilization phase before transitioning to ongoing feature work.

      Does Brocoders handle product design as well as development?

      Yes. Brocoders has in-house UX/UI designers who work alongside engineers throughout the development process, not just at the start. Design and engineering handoff is managed within the same team.

      Can Brocoders work with an existing product codebase?

      Yes. Brocoders regularly joins mid-stage products — after a seed round, after an agency-built MVP, or when a founding team needs to scale delivery capacity. The onboarding process includes a technical audit and a knowledge transfer period.

      How does Brocoders manage product evolution after launch?

      Post-launch, Brocoders runs quarterly roadmap planning aligned to business metrics. Feature work is scoped in discovery sprints before development begins, reducing rework and scope creep.

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