Async Labs: We build custom SaaS web applications.
Building a SaaS web application is still hard. Modern web tooling lets you build delightful user experiences. The downside is that you have to stay up to date with this ever-growing and ever-changing tooling (frameworks, libraries, concepts, ideas). If you appreciate readable, maintainable and extendable code, consider working with us.
With new clients looking for a long-term engagement, we like to start with a trial project (1-3 weeks). If we're both happy, we'll continue the engagement and bill per week based on the number of hours we work that week.
Currently, we are very interested in supply chain, logistics, and inventory management projects. If you are building or planning to build a project in any of these areas, tell us more.
We charge $125/hour. Our current capacity is 25 hours/week.
About you
You can be at any stage of development: no sketches and no codebase, codebase that needs a full refactor, codebase that needs a new feature, etc. You can be an individual, startup, or small business.
You can be building a new SaaS product or an internal tool to make your existing business more efficient. We prefer to work with clients who have some technical background. You don't have to code every day, but understanding project structure and web architecture will be very helpful.
We give preference to codebases with React.js on frontend and Node.js on backend. We write both frontend and backend with TypeScript. If you bought our SaaS Boilerplate book to build your web application, we will assign a higher preference to work with you.
About us
We are a small team: Timur (Lead Engineer), Kelly (UX, UI), and two part-time contractors. Our experience includes:
- We've built over a dozen SaaS web applications in the last 5 years for our clients and for ourselves. See example projects below.
- In addition to our technical expertise, we learned complementary skills from participating in Techstars accelerator in 2016. Our paywall software startup was funded by Techstars and other investors.
- We interact with customers on a weekly basis (books, custom development). We understand your challenges intimately.
- We maintain two popular open source repos: saas and builderbook.
- Our repos have >1000 unique visitors per week. Over 100 people sign up on our SaaS Boilerplate demo every week.
- Our SaaS Boilerplate is the most popular open source React/Next.js/Node.js boilerplate. And it's written with productive TypeScript on both front-end and back-end.
- We also open-sourced our internal team communication tool, Async, which separates urgent vs. non-urgent conversations.
- We wrote and self-published two books at builderbook.org.
- Over three years, we've sold 1000+ copies with less than 3% refund rate.
- Most of our book buyers come from our open source repos at GitHub. After GitHub, Google search is the most popular source of buyers for our books. We do not use any paid advertising.
Overview of experience
Here are examples of what we've built for our customers:
- inventory management software
- API-heavy logistics software
- Maps and Maps APIs
- ecommerce inventory management web application
- forecast logic for trucking industry
- internal reporting tools
- serverless business logic where it makes sense
- numerous third-party API integrations
- any user authentication strategy to serve unique business needs
- implementing most popular AWS, Google, and other web API services
- single-page reactivity, cross-page reactivity
- team management and team communication tools
- team-based real-time updates
- team-based permissions
- role-based permissions
- multi-tenant (multi-customer) web software
- paid subscriptions and related
- advanced CRUD operations and UX
- web scraping software
- custom newsletter software
Need help with your project?
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