You won’t believe these 12 top apps were developed in Eastern Europe
Consider outsourcing your back-end in the IT hubs of Ukraine, Poland and Czech Republic. This list of top apps (bet you use them already) proves it’s worth it.
For recent decades everyone was outsourcing the production from China and the customer support from India. Meanwhile, Eastern Europe — Poland, Czech Republic and Ukraine — developed an abundant market of 100,000+ educated IT developers and employees, estimated at $4 billions worth. And the prices are music for your ears.
Top apps originated from Eastern Europe
Every ESL writer now uses it daily, and lots of native speakers, too. It was started in 2009 in Kiev by two Ukrainians. In a year guys got a steady flow of investitions and now their headquarters in California provide help daily to over 7 million users. And they just don’t stop, raising $110 million more for the product growth right now.
A thankful chant to Skype is heard all around the planet — from businesses, families, friends, people from all paths of life. A true game-changer, that shifted our life towards better, faster, free communication, was a love child of several nations, with Swede and Dane at the front-end and the back-end secured by Estonian programmers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn. First released in 2003, it was acquired several times since then, with most recent in 2011 by Microsoft for $8.5 billion.
The sales reps on 5 continents can’t praise this lead-generation tool enough for easing their life. World likes to sell. Developed in Ukraine and headquartered in Czech Republic, this LinkedIn combing app appeared at the perfect time to enhance new trends of selling better and faster.
Every cat, dog, ferret or parrot owner will embrace this cool app. It’s paired with a gadget that lets you amuse your beloved furry friend while you’re away. Named the best European hardware startup, PetCube smashed Kickstarter in 2014, raising over $250 000. Invented and started in Kiev, Ukraine, now the company has offices in San Francisco and Szhenzhen.
This boasting site-builder with over 90 million current users is a lovechild of three Israeli founders. They chose Ukraine for their back-end base and won. Two offices in Kiev and Dnipro supported with sales representatives in Europe and USA brought the company to success. Right now Wix is launching their own services for music downloads, hotel rentals and restaurant bookings, and just acquired the DeviantArt platform for $36 million.
Fluger creates your own extremely personalized travel route based on your music preferences. Quickly gaining popularity among the young travellers in Europe and US, this AI-based travel assistant got a kick-start at european Paris and Co startup accelerator. Now founders pimp up their back-end factory in Kiev to deliver music-trip-of-a-lifetime product to their millennial audience.
This content marketing platform is doing incredible work with small businesses in social space. Their ready-made solutions let clients win big from the social promotion while only spending couple hours a week on scheduling their content calendar. The platform that grew up from a digital agency in Kiev have won multiple startup grants on three continents and now sits in three offices including Helsinki and San-Francisco.
This Kiev-based startup leveled up the price crawling by turning data into a comprehensible pricing platform for the e-commerce. Now top retailers can set perfect prices to keep clients happy while margins high. Competera grows without loud ventures or investments. With pure organic business development, they managed to get a $1 million turnover in just two years.
Do you study any second (third, fourth) language? If you do it online, than you probably saw the Preply in your Google search. Maybe you’re even one of their happy 200K users. This online language learning platform originated from Kiev. It’s relatively new, though already managed to raise $1.3 million in venture investments and soon will expand to the markets of UK and Europe.
If you’re a parent of preschooler, I can say no more. ClassDojo is the best app connecting teachers, parents and educators in a most fun and friendly way. It booms in over 180 countries. 90% of schools in US use it for effective everyday communication. For three recent years, all mobile development for this game-changer app is handled by the Czech back-end agency.
As Coursera alone reports 25 million registered users, a market of online education tools is booming. Audio-lovers will prefer Roopor, developed by Kiev-based startup agency. It lets you listen to audio streams with no limitations, save lectures for later and record your podcasts — all within one handy app. Introduced on recent SLUSH in Helsinki, it attracted Switzerland investors and is now upgraded to include even more functions.
Since 2007, these tech guys have been making unsexy, yet extremely efficient apps for business solutions. Their products, namely Spark (email client), PDF Expert (pdf editing), Scanner Mini (smartphone scanner) and Calendars boast over 50 million downloads. Behind this success there is a massive army of IT professionals located in Odessa. There they develop top-notch products and provide perfect customer support at a fraction of what it would cost at US.
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