endorsedOngoing

Extended engineering team and gifting-platform development for Gifted

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development • Staff Augmentation • Website Development

Industry

Business Consulting & Services

Duration

79 months

Budget

200K - 999K

Start Date

1 January 2020

Team Size

1-5 Employees

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

74/100

Good

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Client

Gifted

San Francisco, United States of America

Project Summary

Kultprosvet provided staff augmentation and managed engineering for Gifted, building an extended team and taking over core product development. They implemented a gifting system (including a Wix integration), real-time reporting dashboards, and released significant feature updates; the engagement began in January 2020 and is ongoing.

Key Challenges

Transition from project-based contracts to building and managing an extended engineering team
Scale development for a complex, decade-evolved product with large-scale reporting, commission calculations, and payouts
Deliver fast time-to-market while maintaining code quality and scalability

Project Deliverables

Extended engineering team (hiring and management)
Core product development (backend and frontend)
Gifting platform implementation
Wix gifting solution/integration
Real-time reporting dashboards
Customer success tools and flows

Project Solution

Kultprosvet hired and managed an extended engineering team for Gifted, transitioned from project-based work to a dedicated team, and developed the core product using PHP, Laravel, Ember.js, Vue.js, and MySQL. They implemented complex commission and payout logic, real-time reporting dashboards, gift-sending flows, and a Wix integration while coordinating with the client’s design system and using shared tooling (Notion, Slack).

Project Outcome

Wix gifting solution launched within 3.5 months and onboarded ~9,000 merchants within four months
Numerous features and a complete revamp released over a 7–8 month period, demonstrating fast time-to-market
High-quality, scalable code with a focus on long-term scalability

Platforms

Tech Stack

PHP
Laravel
Ember.js
Vue.js
MySQL

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“The code written by Kultprosvet’s team is of high quality. They were able to develop a gifting system for Wix quickly, and now it has more than 9,000 users. The team has an ample understanding of the scope, and they’re highly communicative and flexible around the client’s needs.”
Micha Berkuz
CEO
Date: 05/19/2021