By using Xano for its back-end development tasks, the Agency has been able to reduce its development time. Early on they saw a 30% decrease; now that the team is familiar with Xano, they often see a 40-50% reduction in development time. Using Xano instead of writing custom code also means that they don’t need a development operations expert to deploy servers and manage load balancers.
Background
The Agency is an Agile product development company that creates customized solutions for its clients. It offers everything from architecture, design and development operations to testing, support and product management. While typically working with start-ups, the team also helps established organizations create in-house solutions.
The challenge
Before learning about Xano’s codeless back-end development platform, the agency had been custom coding everything. The problem with this approach, of course, is time and cost. “New early-stage startups don’t have the budget,” they explain. “When we were adopting the custom coding approach, there were times when we lost customers or were unable to meet a customer’s expectations due to budget constraints.”
They needed a way to reduce costs and speed up the process, and they found it with Xano.
Solution
Today, the Agency promotes the use of Xano in all new projects.
“Xano helps us build the backend very quickly and also helps us prototype much faster,” they share. “It’s not code, so now we’re just writing logic, not syntax. Because everything is already coded for us in Xano, we no longer have to deal with the typical problems of resolving merge conflicts between modules. Its automated documentation makes it very easy to manage internally. Backups are automated. Also, you don’t have to use multiple tools to access the database – everything is in one place, which is great.”
Results
By using Xano for its back-end development tasks, the Agency has been able to reduce its development time. Early on they saw a 30% decrease; now that the team is familiar with Xano, they often see a 40-50% reduction in development time. Using Xano instead of writing custom code also means that they don’t need a development operations expert to deploy servers and manage load balancers.
Overall, Xano helps you build and iterate faster, all while preparing for growth. “I really appreciate the fact that Xano is based on best practices,” they say. “Xano sits on a secure cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud and uses Docker Containerization, Kubernetes and a PostgreSQL database. All of which means Xano allows us to scale…not just prototype.”
Xano reduces costs, speeds time to market and allows the team to better compete with other agencies. “It has definitely helped us close more business,” they add. “What used to be a $10,000 project can be reduced to $6,000. Xano is like a secret weapon that helps us get more projects and then do excellent work on them.”
