Everyone’s talking about AI replacing developers these days… but where can you find a good old Ruby on Rails agency in London with Ruby on Rails developers in flesh and bones* these days?
(*) plant-based version also available in selected locations, like the UK, for instance.
Do you need top-notch developers who have extensive experience with code, architecture, design, UI/UX, SRE, applications scalability, major versions upgrades, draining rivers of tech debt, as well as forward-minded individuals, savvy with AI applications and what current and future technologies will bring us?
I hear you, you still need human-centred solutions for your coding problems, AI or not.
Well, look no further. At thoughtbot, we believe that the concept of interface is not only between your application and the end-user, it’s also how you, at the company, nurture communication and collaboration among developers, designers and product managers. This is part of what makes a successful product that lasts over time.
We are a collective of consultants who will listen to you as you illustrate to us your problem and what you want to achieve. We won’t try to come up with a generic prescription, but guide you and ask you more questions until together we nail it and come up with a tailored solution, what success looks like, and we build or rebuild, improve and iterate again until we win!
We have that human experience, and with over 2 decades of development under our belt, made of all those Ruby and Rails versions, platform upgrades, trends that came and went, blog posts, talks at conferences, video courses, books and documentation, contributions to libraries and building of so many gems, still maintained and broadly used today by the wider community, because they are effective, reusable, solid, and open source. Think of FactoryBot.
Wait, are we all located in London then? Well, no, we don’t need to be physically there anymore, with the pandemic we chose to move to a remote-only setup and moved out of our physical London office space, leaving behind the commuting on the tube or cycling, the housing costs, the VISAs, and the lack of sunshine. But we are still around working in the area, or having a pint, or staying out for a Sunday roast, and we still know our London reality and its companies’ needs.
We understand you are still in London’s drizzly weather, so no rubbing salt into the wound here! We want you to know that you are not alone, weathering the storm of broken code, pandora’s boxes as big as filing cabinets filled with bugs, intermittently failing specs at daylight saving time, codebases still running on deprecated versions of Ruby and Rails, and forms that would give goosebumps to any accessibility tool out there, and spammers who try to get to you every day with some kind of a deal. We don’t do that, because you know where to find us.
London is a big trendsetting island inside a larger island, it’s big and interconnected web to the whole world, it’s particular and unique in its traditions, diversity, climate and economy. Its presence of startup businesses, alongside with longer standing companies makes it a special, diversified, and fulfilling place to do work.
Over the years we helped both large and small companies across various industries, focusing on excellent coding standards, backed by user research, robust test suites, process improvements in day-to-day interactions and planning, helping communicating to relieve friction between stakeholders and tech teams, and delivering high quality products, or even help building an in-house team of developers conducting interviews to enable you to make great additions to your team. Meanwhile we also alleviate your long-term hiring efforts, working alongside you, until you feel refreshed and ready for your next milestone on your own.
And that’s when thoughtbot graduates clients, still maintaining a relationship of trust where you can always reach back out, when a new chapter comes along and you want the peace of mind that things are going to be done right.
If you want to chat, in the meantime, we can schedule a call in Greenwich Mean Time!