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THEY SAID ABOUT US:
I have known Georgios for a long time and I can say with confidence that “what you see is what you get”. He is very passionate about what he does and he is not afraid to let you know what he is all about. Creative, composed and persistent, he is able to concentrate on results and I particularly enjoyed working with him - you can take his word for it.
John Pyrovolakis
Entrepreneur, New York, USA
In my experience with startups and other bootstrapped projects, it is imperative to work with a technical team that can understand the product, ask relevant questions and manage itself - there's simply too much to do to have to worry about everything. Working with [the Zero to MVP] team was a seamless experience; we just explained what we wanted to achieve, discussed some key points, and they took care of the rest.
Charles Bathgate
CEO DELIVERBACK, Athens, Greece
I must say that I was very hesitant in the beginning to hire someone hundreds of miles away, whom I've never met, but in the end, [Zero to MVP] proved to be very reliable, communicative and excellent at what they do. I expect that I'll be working with them again in the future, with later iterations of dwellcome, or if it doesn't come off the ground, with my next business idea.
Tom Pischel
CEO Dwellcome, Canada
You have a rare combination of experience, intelligence, work ethic and integrity and it has been my honour to work with you.
Kane Marais
CEO Vibio, South Africa
We experienced Georgios as meticulously detail oriented, resourceful, vigilant, and extremely well-informed [...]. His domain expertise combined with his curiosity and willingness to challenge himself with new concepts made him an invaluable member of our team.
Charles Bathgate
CEO Sang Lucci, Athens, Greece
Georgios continually made sacrifices on behalf of the organization, going above and beyond what would typically be expected by someone in his position. He consistently maintained a perspective geared toward solving the problem at hand while also establishing long-term solutions. His work ethic was exemplary, as was the integrity with which he [...] represented us as a firm.
Charles Bathgate
CEO Sang Lucci, Athens, Greece
[Zero to MVP was] absolutely key to the successful roll out of our meal card [...]. They managed to create an amazing application (best rated in its category) for both Apple and Android platform on time and on budget. Since then, they always react swiftly [...] to help us out. We couldn’t be where we are today without them.
CEO Up Hellas, Athens, Greece
[Zero to MVP] helped to bring one of our conceptual designs to a working solution; [they are able to] understand the requirements and willingness to learn new concepts/technology to complete the solution as well as to adapt the solution to accept emerging requirements.
CEO Tallyx, Princeton, New Jersey
I have known Georgios for a long time and I can say with confidence that “what you see is what you get”. He is very passionate about what he does and he is not afraid to let you know what he is all about. Creative, composed and persistent, he is able to concentrate on results and I particularly enjoyed working with him - you can take his word for it.
John Pyrovolakis
Entrepreneur, New York, USA
In my experience with startups and other bootstrapped projects, it is imperative to work with a technical team that can understand the product, ask relevant questions and manage itself - there's simply too much to do to have to worry about everything. Working with [the Zero to MVP] team was a seamless experience; we just explained what we wanted to achieve, discussed some key points, and they took care of the rest.
Charles Bathgate
CEO DELIVERBACK, Athens, Greece
I must say that I was very hesitant in the beginning to hire someone hundreds of miles away, whom I've never met, but in the end, [Zero to MVP] proved to be very reliable, communicative and excellent at what they do. I expect that I'll be working with them again in the future, with later iterations of dwellcome, or if it doesn't come off the ground, with my next business idea.
Tom Pischel
CEO Dwellcome, Canada
You have a rare combination of experience, intelligence, work ethic and integrity and it has been my honour to work with you.
Kane Marais
CEO Vibio, South Africa
We experienced Georgios as meticulously detail oriented, resourceful, vigilant, and extremely well-informed [...]. His domain expertise combined with his curiosity and willingness to challenge himself with new concepts made him an invaluable member of our team.
Charles Bathgate
CEO Sang Lucci, Athens, Greece
Georgios continually made sacrifices on behalf of the organization, going above and beyond what would typically be expected by someone in his position. He consistently maintained a perspective geared toward solving the problem at hand while also establishing long-term solutions. His work ethic was exemplary, as was the integrity with which he [...] represented us as a firm.
Charles Bathgate
CEO Sang Lucci, Athens, Greece
[Zero to MVP was] absolutely key to the successful roll out of our meal card [...]. They managed to create an amazing application (best rated in its category) for both Apple and Android platform on time and on budget. Since then, they always react swiftly [...] to help us out. We couldn’t be where we are today without them.
CEO Up Hellas, Athens, Greece
[Zero to MVP] helped to bring one of our conceptual designs to a working solution; [they are able to] understand the requirements and willingness to learn new concepts/technology to complete the solution as well as to adapt the solution to accept emerging requirements.
CEO Tallyx, Princeton, New Jersey
I have known Georgios for a long time and I can say with confidence that “what you see is what you get”. He is very passionate about what he does and he is not afraid to let you know what he is all about. Creative, composed and persistent, he is able to concentrate on results and I particularly enjoyed working with him - you can take his word for it.
John Pyrovolakis
Entrepreneur, New York, USA
OUR APPROACH
We are engineers with a knack for understanding products on all levels: business strategy, user experience and technical requirements.
Our self-assigned job is to start from your envisaged idea and diligently work to manifest it into a working product, all the while helping you refine it and balance the scales of delivery time and feature set, cost and implementation endurance.
BENEFITS
- We'll always keep you in the loop with weekly checkpoints
- Our methodology is agile and we'll adapt to changes
- We have a zero-waste policy; we'll do our best to make efficient use of your resources
- ZMVP's own experienced team with credentials means that you won't have to worry about anything technical
- It's our job to know the best practices and we'll apply them for you
- You will come away with a well-built, reliable software that you can be proud of
CASE STUDIES
Deliverback solves the problem of delivering lost & found items in hotels back to their owners.
Deliverback was an idea first conceived on the back of a napkin and a team was assembled quickly to execute on it. The Zero to MVP team received the first designs within a couple of weeks and delivered a first MVP within three weeks, tackling challenges that arose as the business was getting set up.
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Let’s say you have left your mobile phone at a Mykonos hotel during your last visit to Greece… you can go to the deliverback website, list the item and hotel, as well as your address. You’ll receive an instant quote for the cost of delivering it back to you, and after you pay with Paypal, the service will send a courier to collect your item, package it, and bring it back to you safely.
For this project, based on the time and cost constraints imposed, we used our stack of preference to deliver a working product the soonest possible: ASP.NET Core API, storing all the business objects in a RavenDB database, rendering pages on the frontend with React.
While the user experience is relatively simple, we found the partner courier’s electronic service lacking in many ways that required us to implement complex workflows for the deliverback team to administer. In combination with payment and tax/accounting related issues, deliverback prompted us to overcome unforeseen challenges. To increase the reliability of the system, we introduced a service bus queue and retry processing.
Dwellcome creates personalized welcome kits for newly relocated individuals to help them adapt to their community.
Tom Pischel is a Canadian entrepreneur who dreamt of owning his own platform where realtors can create personalized welcome kits for their clients, so that they can adapt to their new neighborhood quickly.
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Rather than a Google Maps search interface, the address and relevant neighborhood are central to the user experience where the newcomer can explore those amenities that are most appropriate to him/her. E.g. a student may receive a welcome kit listing the local bars and coworking spaces, where as someone with a family may receive supermarkets, nurseries and pharmacies. We also built some tools for Tom to easily administer his database of neighborhoods and places of interest.
Respecting our client’s firm wish, we implemented this project using the MERN stack - Node.js backend with data storage on a MongoDB database, rendering the frontend using React. Tom is a competent designer and we received the designs from him, before working on two iterations of the dwellcome website and administrative area. It presented little technical challenge, so we focused on delivering a reliable product, the soonest possible, so that he can receive first-hand user feedback immediately.
The entertainment discovery engine. Explore leisure destinations around you in real-time with Vibio.
Kane Marais is an entrepreneur from South Africa, who is launching Vibio - a instagram-style mobile phone application where users can discover what is happening in communities or businesses near them by viewing relevant images and videos posted by other users. To be clear, Kane asked us to undertake only the backend of Vibio, a challenge that we gladly accepted.
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Vibio presents several challenges that are not obvious immediately. Beyond the encoding and storage of video files, for which we used a third-party service to reduce cost and delivery time at the MVP stage, we also had to make sure that the videos were only visible to Vibio users and no one could inflate the company’s bandwidth bill by directly linking to the files, and that the generation of the video feed is able to be generated quickly as well as scale to thousands of users as the service grew.
To overcome the aforementioned challenges, we took advantage of the power of RavenDB indexing and spatial queries to deliver a working MVP that would be able to scale without re-design or throwing away code. The backend API served concise JSON responses secured with JWT authentication, including refresh token capability.
A chat room for traders that incorporates live analysis by an expert trader and the use of advanced technical widgets.
Charles Bathgate and his team had previously worked with Georgios and it was this trusted relationship that enabled us to work together in delivering two interactive widgets for their chat room for traders, which display low-latency information about the current market state to their esteemed users. Users are able to search and favorite the information displayed while continuously receiving real-time updates.
Read full project description
With a deeper understanding of the technology as well as the product, we worked with their product owner and designer for several iterations before finalizing the user experience. Due to the widgets being displayed in iframe HTML components, we rendered the front-end using Vue, overcoming rendering restrictions with React, inside iframes. The project backend was built with ASP.NET Core and SignalR and is hosted on our powerful load-balanced, clustered RavenDB+IIS environment that we provide to our clients as a service.
Up issues prepaid cards that business owners can charge every month and provide to their employees to spend on affiliated stores.
Up is a well-established multi-national company, which we helped expand into a new country. While their internal corporate team manages their API, we developed the frontend for their web and mobile applications using React and React Native respectively.
A global platform for trade and supply chain finance
Tallyx is an ambitious blockchain startup based in Princeton, New Jersey, trying to tackle the challenges surrounding trade and supply chain finance. While the details of the project and implementation are bound to a non-disclosure agreement, it involved a distributed service written with NodeJS, making use of a graph database and indexing engine.
Read full project description
The challenges extended beyond setting up a distributed platform, but also making sure that the service can be tested easily and in an automated manner, and can continue to function when parts of the infrastructure are missing or performing sub-optimally.
Deliverback solves the problem of delivering lost & found items in hotels back to their owners.
Deliverback was an idea first conceived on the back of a napkin and a team was assembled quickly to execute on it. The Zero to MVP team received the first designs within a couple of weeks and delivered a first MVP within three weeks, tackling challenges that arose as the business was getting set up.
Read full project description
Let’s say you have left your mobile phone at a Mykonos hotel during your last visit to Greece… you can go to the deliverback website, list the item and hotel, as well as your address. You’ll receive an instant quote for the cost of delivering it back to you, and after you pay with Paypal, the service will send a courier to collect your item, package it, and bring it back to you safely.
For this project, based on the time and cost constraints imposed, we used our stack of preference to deliver a working product the soonest possible: ASP.NET Core API, storing all the business objects in a RavenDB database, rendering pages on the frontend with React.
While the user experience is relatively simple, we found the partner courier’s electronic service lacking in many ways that required us to implement complex workflows for the deliverback team to administer. In combination with payment and tax/accounting related issues, deliverback prompted us to overcome unforeseen challenges. To increase the reliability of the system, we introduced a service bus queue and retry processing.
Dwellcome creates personalized welcome kits for newly relocated individuals to help them adapt to their community.
Tom Pischel is a Canadian entrepreneur who dreamt of owning his own platform where realtors can create personalized welcome kits for their clients, so that they can adapt to their new neighborhood quickly.
Read full project description
Rather than a Google Maps search interface, the address and relevant neighborhood are central to the user experience where the newcomer can explore those amenities that are most appropriate to him/her. E.g. a student may receive a welcome kit listing the local bars and coworking spaces, where as someone with a family may receive supermarkets, nurseries and pharmacies. We also built some tools for Tom to easily administer his database of neighborhoods and places of interest.
Respecting our client’s firm wish, we implemented this project using the MERN stack - Node.js backend with data storage on a MongoDB database, rendering the frontend using React. Tom is a competent designer and we received the designs from him, before working on two iterations of the dwellcome website and administrative area. It presented little technical challenge, so we focused on delivering a reliable product, the soonest possible, so that he can receive first-hand user feedback immediately.
The entertainment discovery engine. Explore leisure destinations around you in real-time with Vibio.
Kane Marais is an entrepreneur from South Africa, who is launching Vibio - a instagram-style mobile phone application where users can discover what is happening in communities or businesses near them by viewing relevant images and videos posted by other users. To be clear, Kane asked us to undertake only the backend of Vibio, a challenge that we gladly accepted.
Read full project description
Vibio presents several challenges that are not obvious immediately. Beyond the encoding and storage of video files, for which we used a third-party service to reduce cost and delivery time at the MVP stage, we also had to make sure that the videos were only visible to Vibio users and no one could inflate the company’s bandwidth bill by directly linking to the files, and that the generation of the video feed is able to be generated quickly as well as scale to thousands of users as the service grew.
To overcome the aforementioned challenges, we took advantage of the power of RavenDB indexing and spatial queries to deliver a working MVP that would be able to scale without re-design or throwing away code. The backend API served concise JSON responses secured with JWT authentication, including refresh token capability.
A chat room for traders that incorporates live analysis by an expert trader and the use of advanced technical widgets.
Charles Bathgate and his team had previously worked with Georgios and it was this trusted relationship that enabled us to work together in delivering two interactive widgets for their chat room for traders, which display low-latency information about the current market state to their esteemed users. Users are able to search and favorite the information displayed while continuously receiving real-time updates.
Read full project description
With a deeper understanding of the technology as well as the product, we worked with their product owner and designer for several iterations before finalizing the user experience. Due to the widgets being displayed in iframe HTML components, we rendered the front-end using Vue, overcoming rendering restrictions with React, inside iframes. The project backend was built with ASP.NET Core and SignalR and is hosted on our powerful load-balanced, clustered RavenDB+IIS environment that we provide to our clients as a service.
Up issues prepaid cards that business owners can charge every month and provide to their employees to spend on affiliated stores.
Up is a well-established multi-national company, which we helped expand into a new country. While their internal corporate team manages their API, we developed the frontend for their web and mobile applications using React and React Native respectively.
A global platform for trade and supply chain finance
Tallyx is an ambitious blockchain startup based in Princeton, New Jersey, trying to tackle the challenges surrounding trade and supply chain finance. While the details of the project and implementation are bound to a non-disclosure agreement, it involved a distributed service written with NodeJS, making use of a graph database and indexing engine.
Read full project description
The challenges extended beyond setting up a distributed platform, but also making sure that the service can be tested easily and in an automated manner, and can continue to function when parts of the infrastructure are missing or performing sub-optimally.
THE TEAM
Meet the crew. Our team consists of highly trained and experienced proffesionals whos passion is to see you succeed. This is an indicative introduction that provides context and prepares the visitor/potential client to better evaluate the short bios that follow. However it is not obligatory.. if you think it is useful, please provide the actual copy. Another idea would be to maybe add a title after each name, representing the role of the respective team member.
Georgios Diamantopoulos
Georgios has almost a decade of experience in technical leadership roles at startup organizations. In fact, this is how he realized that there is nothing more rewarding than acting on an idea! Using pure brainpower to discover and assemble all the pieces of a well-build product together, with the smallest expenditure possible. His unique ability to "speak business" has been invaluable in bridging the technical-business gap often found in earlt stage ventures.
He holds a BEng and PhD degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK which he graduated from in 2010 and was a Ewing Kauffman Global Scholar in 2007. His career began as a technical co-founder in a healthcare startup, in 2010. After re-architecturing and taking ibridgenetwork.org to production in 2012, he joined a startuo hedge fund in 2015, writing everything from trading software to customer-facing web applications. After churning out several MVPs as a freelancer between 2017-2019, he founded Zero to MVP with his partner, Manos, to give this passion a name, and manifest the dreams of as mant people as possible
Manos Theodorou
Manos is not yet another developer. Following years of working in startup and corporate enrironments, as well as founding his own startup, he has gathered all the necessary technical and business knowledge to kickstart ideas. Considering that, he finds the process of creating products out of ideas very creative and satisfactory. His established knowledge together with his limitless hunger for self-growth and development allows him to build applications that satisfy not only the best software practices but also the business needs.
Together with Georgios, they founded Zero to MVP, as they identified that there are numerous people with ideas that have difficulties making them reality. Together, they aim to connect skilled engineers and clients, and proudly develop real-world, scalable and top-quality applications ready to be used by real users.
He holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Manchester and Edinburgh, respectively - top universities in the Russell Group. In the early years of his career, he created a startup in the real estate sector. Prior to and following that, he gained software engineering exprerience in both startup as well as well-established companies.
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