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
    • Application modernization

    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.

    Compressor World logo

    Compressor World turns 4,090 manuals into a paid AI agent

      Compressor World, Massachusetts: Brocoders built AskCW.ai, an AI agent that answers compressor questions from 4,090 manufacturer manuals and spec sheets and names the file and page under each answer. Buyers get 5 free queries a month, and the build covered a paid plan and sponsored product cards.

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      Inherited edtech MVP rebuilt into an AI training platform in 5 months

      • AI Development
      • SaaS
      • Sales Training Software
      • Project takeover

      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.

      Gokada logo

      Motorbike ride-hailing MVP taken over and rebuilt in Lagos

      • Geolocation integration
      • Marketplace

      Gokada, Lagos: Brocoders took over a motorbike hailing MVP built by another IT company in July 2018, merged its rider and driver apps into a single React Native app, extended the Node.js backend, built the admin panel, and added Paystack. The rebuilt app launched at the beginning of 2019. Daily ride requests grew 2.5x in 6 months, and by the end of 2019 riders had made 1.5 million ride requests and 1,000+ drivers had completed 325,000 rides.

    • 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

      Sales and field operations platform for a solar company: the mobile app covers 80% of field work.

      • 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

      AI-Powered Swine Management Software for 1,550+ Producers and Vets

      • 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 MVP restructured for high load, 478,846 games in one campaign

      • SaaS
      • Gamification

      Adact, Estonia: in October 2020 Brocoders took Adact's working MVP on PHP and jQuery and rebuilt it on React, Node.js, and AWS in about 6 months, with campaign configuration in PostgreSQL and game analytics in MongoDB and AWS Lambda. By August 2022 we had added games, payments, Zapier, and a custom API, and we worked on Adact until June 2024. One agency campaign drew 567,077 visitors and 478,846 completed games in 10 days.

      Gym system with smart turnstiles, 30% profit from extras

        Delivering a next-gen gym experience with a custom-built hardware & software package

      • brocoders logo

        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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        Rodion Salnik

        CTO and Co-founder at Brocoders

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