jackson warman's review of Draftbit

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Hi there. My name is Jack and I have been working with Draftbit for the past few months to build an MVP version of a meal plan service that I'm launching at the University of Florida. Iteration of version of other companies that have existed. Effectively a off campus meal plan service that allows students to eat with restaurants in place of their dining halls. So I needed to create a two sided food ordering marketplace with a cart system and needed to provide notifications for the student and for the restaurants so that they could actually parse the information between both and then also record transaction data so that I can then contract payment between all the parties. I have very minimal development experience before this, so Draftbit helped me finalize as far back as finalize my database structure, which is extremely helpful all the way to using some of their pre made UI for the base of my app and editing it, as well as obviously building out all the connections between my back end and the front end to make it actually a working app. It's been extremely helpful. For the first few weeks, I tried to kind of have a relationship with the experts where I almost thought they were going to be teaching me how to use Draftbit. And even though it took a little bit more time, it was helpful to learn that. But then I realized I was on a bit of a time crunch and it was just within my budget to contract for one month of the Silver Plan. And thankfully, based on the work that we had already put in, it actually helped get it across the line just in time, which is amazing because I know I wouldn't have been able to do it in that much time myself. It was awesome working with the guys. Everyone is extremely helpful, extremely attentive, extremely responsive. They definitely see things that you won't see in your development if you have my level of kind of awareness. And it's really helpful because you're basically getting almost CTO help in drafting your MVP, which is invaluable. We are almost done launching on the App Store. It's great just to be able to publish it into the App Store to know that I have my source code if I need it. But I also have the luxury of working with Draftbit to make minor changes when I don't have really the mental bandwidth or skills to do so myself. And it really empowers me as a business owner. I definitely plan to use Draftbit to expand the reach of this app once I have a little bit more revenue and traction. What I'd want others to know about using Draftbit is it's going to be as good as you can dictate because it's your baby, you're building this product. You are just working with these individuals to help you get there. And they're not mind readers, but they work extremely well if you can provide precise level of detail, which is so great and it's very helpful. Team is great about asking for clarification. It may take a few rounds of revision, so I would plan for that. It's something I had not planned for, but I think it's just going to happen in any level of development and that's the big takeaway, is just every push notification, every screen, every interaction you can draw up beforehand will save you time and increase your precision in output. I definitely would work with these guys in the future, happily, once I have another idea or need some more work, and I would definitely recommend it to others looking to build an MVP or any really tech based app. Thank you so much and have a wonderful day.