Frontend and Backend Development

Web app for digitalizing company data and processes

Growee
Web platform built with Laravel and Vue.Js

Organizations use Growee to digitalize data and processes in a simple, secure and fast way.
Growee provides a secure and user friendly enviroment for everything you need so that you can focus on growing your business rather than endless paperwork.

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The Challenge

Growee began as an internal project within the BinarCode company. As we started to grow as a company, there was a need to use more tools for everything related to the organizational aspect of the company, starting with billing, clients, and ending with evaluations and leave within the company.

We started looking and even used several tools, but we encountered a few problems:

ERP-type software is usually very generalist.
Good software excels only in a small part of the needs a company has. For example, there are softwares that do very well in billing or time tracking, but there isn't a software that does well in multiple areas.
Most tools are not adapted for Romania and Romanian legislation, especially regarding everything about leave.
Good HR and company management tools start at 8-10+ EUR/user, which is quite a lot for some companies in Romania. If you use multiple tools, you end up with very high costs per user.

In the initial stages, another challenge was also time-related. In the beginning, we did not have a dedicated team as we do now, which sometimes blocked us from having constant and visible progress, this being sometimes a demotivating factor, but still, we did not want to give up.

The Process

We decided to build our own simple and rudimentary tool that would meet our own needs.

After a period of about 2 years in which we used our own software for leave and evaluations, we came to the conclusion that we could rebuild it, in such a way that other companies could benefit from it too.

At this stage, we decided to think very carefully about the architecture of this product and how we can extend it so that other companies can benefit from it.

For about 1 year, we developed Growee as a side project, on weekends or free days, so that we could achieve our proposed goal, and in 2023 we set ourselves the goal of having a soft launch towards the end of summer. We announced that we were going to launch a software for digitizing company data and made several posts about it on our social media networks.

As we progressed with the product development and the soft launch, we formed an internal and enthusiastic team, dedicated to the Growee product.

The Outcome

Now, Growee is a secure and easy to use application for digitalizing company data. We worked on everything related to scalability and security of the application. In January 2024, the application underwent extensive Penetration Testing by CTD (Cyber Threat Defence), following which we obtained a certification that assures clients that the application is safe in all respects and all their data is completely secure.

The documentation and creation process was a very intense time but we made the best memories.
Being a product that does not depend on external investments, the financial aspect until the launch was quite a big challenge.

We always had to balance and analyze well what functionalities we wanted to build to fit within the proposed budget, but at the same time to be able to offer a quality product with a good user experience.

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