Buoy Development

Buoy Development builds web and mobile software for clients, acting as a long-term product partner rather than a staffing agency. It supplies close-knit teams that plan, build and ship products together, and works with customers to pick the business measures it should move, from churn to page load times. The firm has been operating for close to ten years.

What Buoy Development offers

• Web and mobile app development — custom applications built and shipped to real users.
• Product and UX design — software architecture and wireframes, with only as much up-front design as a project needs.
• Team extension — whole teams that join a client's organisation and take on a product area.
• Research and testing — a testing-heavy approach aimed at stable products that can grow.

Who it works with

Startups and growing product companies; testimonials come from the founder of Troupe and the CTO of LineLeap. The firm describes itself as a nearshore, distributed team.

Key facts

• Experience: nearly a decade in operation
• Working model: distributed teams