Randa B.
They create an app that only they can understand the backend. You'll find later it is a developer's nightmare
I will start by saying that Technbrains aka Koder has good work ethic and a great staff. I hired TechnbRains May of 2024 to develop my app, that I had already had a complete list of requirements handed over from a previous developer I was working with. I had most of the mockups and workflows completed with a designer and the team helped me obtain all of the missing pieces that were needed and they are efficient with the way they work, professionally handle your project with care. I left TechnBrains in November of 2024, after I was quoted an extremely high quote for the last two pieces of the app development. I asked several other developers to offer me quotes on this same work, and they quoted much less, as these were somewhat simple and straight forward tasks. Fast forward to now, I have found a technical cofounder who does the front end development work. The backend is a MESS. I've had backend developers take a look through our backend setup and files, and refuse to touch it because of how messy it is. It's confusing, the files are all disorganized. The backed log saves every little action, which has consumed the cloud server memory so quickly and continue to add costs, and the setup for AWS and Firebase are conflicting and unnecessarily require me to get a developer who can manage each one. Furthermore, we have ongoing issues due to their way of setting up the app. Notifications have always been an issue due to the way it was setup, every month we had a crash due to Koder's server, EVERYTHING is custom coded, so that we are not able to make simple changes. They used Flutter Flow, so this should have been much more straight forward and simple to add and remove things. Since I left TechnBrains, I have spent SO much time and money fixing their mistakes. I believe they have junior developers working on their apps, and my app is a bit complicated. I am so unhappy with the money I paid them, as I was left with A HUGE MESS of an app that I'm continuously paying to fix. In conclusion, terrible backend that goes down frequently, front end that is a developers nightmare. Handed off a "production ready app" with naming conventions like "Please Do Not Delete" and "Home2copyFinal". They build a terrible product only they can manage which is how they hook you into spending at least 800 a month just to keep it alive. Work was comparable to what you would see from a college student.