The technical partner you can trust

The top 4 software consulting firms rake in hundreds of billions of dollars from customers in a market expected to reach $588.14 billion by 2030 (Mordor Intelligence). Unfortunately, those rates do not always coincide with positive outcomes. We still see bloated budgets, missed timelines, and meandering scope. At Zappfy, we combat this with a handful of principles:

  1. Share knowledge and show your work

  2. Fail fast and fail together in order to later succeed

  3. Be curious about other’s work, not judgmental

  4. Listen to users, talk to developers

  5. Don’t fall in love with a single technology

connect to software at a transparent price.

At Zappfy, we operate as your partner in navigating complex systems, new ideas, and calculated risks. We customize affordable products to suit your needs without forcing you down a path of vendor lock-in or expensive custom development. We believe it is more important to be agile than to practice Agile, we understand how vital user feedback is for engineers, and we know how to build software while managing expectations.

Power up with fast solutions.

Need a robust database and web application you can modify on the fly?
Go with Knack.
Want your apps to interact with other apps without writing code?
Try out Zapier.
Need to deploy a custom but templated app quickly?
Use Heroku.
Want to simplify your SQL queries with a GraphQL API?
Choose Hasura.

Low code and no code tooling has improved tremendously over the years: don’t settle for unnecessarily large development teams or expensive, per-license software for projects that don’t require it.

Our Services

IT Consulting

Hesitant to jump into development? Looking for guidance based on other client use cases? Let’s talk and ask questions first, and then we can decide the best paths together.

Hesitant to jump into development? Looking for guidance based on other client use cases? Let’s talk and ask questions first, and then we can decide the best paths together.

Software Development

Bring your business and operations to life with responsive web applications, centralized and de-centralized databases, and API development.

Bring your business and operations to life with responsive web applications, robust databases, and API integrations.

User Research

Requirements should be informed by users. Data-driven user research is preferable to our best “guesses”, as much as we all like to backseat drive development. We utilize card-sorting exercises, online surveys, first-click testing, and qualitative re…

Requirements should be informed by users. Data-driven user research is preferable to our best “guesses”, as much as we all like to backseat drive development. We utilize card-sorting exercises, online surveys, first-click testing, and qualitative research to provide the best insight into how your software should “feel” and function.

Our Vision

We want to be a transparent, affordable choice in IT consulting and software development that charges based on real labor efforts, not manufactured profit margins.

How do we ACCOMPLISH THIS?

  • We show you the direct rate we pay our partner freelancers, with the corresponding markup we employ to keep the internet on. We pay any partner freelancers in the U.S. based on a living wage and employ a similar strategy with developers abroad, meaning we work with talented individuals who are compensated fairly and who are more likely to stay with us over time.

  • We do not take referral bonuses from vendors. We recommend products and services based on the quality and solution fit for those products and services, removing any incentive that introduces bias.

  • We spend considerably less on both consulting and development rates by embracing AI-assisted development practices, event-driven design as a first principle, open source technologies over closed ecosystems, and iterative feedback loops with end users (or the closest proxies of end users).

  • We believe in the practice of software engineering and its value to organizations; we do not believe in outsourcing exclusively for cheap labor, as this has long been a practice that’s haunted many industries and leads to not only the exploitation of labor but poor outcomes in product quality.