How We Develop our Product to Become a Technological Backbone of Million-Dollar Startups

Scrile is a tech company that traditionally develops solutions for B2B enterprises. With the help of Scrum and Agile approaches we make it possible to successfully deliver features for scalable projects with complex environments in relatively short time frames, with iterative improvements bringing them to the ideal. 

We follow the approach of client engagement into the process of team collaboration throughout a continual dynamic development where everyone is working together towards one goal. Only in combination with modern technology stack, attention to code quality and an experienced development team, this approach allows us to achieve our goals and produce high-quality IT solutions that bring outstanding value and financial success to our clients.

Scrile Connect Product Owner, Olga Cherenkova, shared the principles of the approach to building Enterprise projects based on Scrile Connect platform:

“We’ve created a strong chain of communication processes with the client. Every week we have regular Scrum procedures like weekly synchronization calls when we discuss features that will be developed during the next sprint. As a product owner, I support three backlogs (lists of all things that need to be done within the project), the first is for the client’s project roadmap, the second is the internal backlog for the development team and the third is for the design team. Before the new feature is developed and released, we always discuss the roots of the problem and client’s need with the development team in order to provide the most effective solution that we can offer. We use an iterative way of development because every new feature always means a hypothesis, and there is no reason to implement a high price feature right away as you need to test it and get feedback from users in order to make a solution about the new iteration to get the final result.”

Talking about the development of Scrile Connect core software, Olga added, “Scrile Connect is on the active growth stage up to now and we use different ways to learn and clearly understand our target audience needs – customer development interview, usability tests of the essential user flows, special features testing methods. Statements, Vault, Subscription sales, paid content in messages, referral program, – this is far from the full list of the features which appeared in the product due to testing feature hypothesis in iterative way. Scrile team always takes into account the specifics of the target audience, that is, those who create and purchase the content. We always follow market changes and global trends and monitor every tiny important part of the features that world-leading services like OnlyFans have.”

Our top priority is to offer a wide range of customization features of the platform interface and provide an excellent user experience with the modern UI/UX design. The Connect interface is adapted for different devices, so it looks great and is easy to use both on mobile devices and desktops. The modern technology stack allows us to provide an interface that works quickly and remains responsive to any task.

Lead of frontend development team, Maxim Ilin, shared the features of architectural interface of the platform:

“With the help of a specially developed editor, you can create a unique landing page or any text page from scratch without writing a single line of code. You can easily replace the logo, favicon, or even completely change the color scheme of the website in just a few clicks. Enterprise clients can apply more significant changes to the appearance of the website, develop custom design layouts and our team of designers and developers is always ready to help with this.”

As our Enterprise projects were getting bigger, attracting celebrities with huge fan base which made a boost in driving traffic to the website, we have challenged the capacity limitations of the Scrile Connect system in order to make it scalable and highload resistant. We have managed to prepare a reliable technological foundation for such projects to effectively serve as the technological backbone of big startups.

Scrile CTO, Oleg Kolychev commented on the technical background of Scrile Connect:

“We are focused on using the latest versions of the tools for building software products, which keeps us constantly at the forefront of technology. The microservice architecture, on the basis of which we have built our product, allows us to achieve high availability and painless scalability during high loads. Kubernetes cluster lets us easily manage installations for hundreds of our clients, and our own server cloud and agreements with data centers allow us to keep hosting prices affordable.” 

In addition to custom development, management, maintenance and technical support, we provide assistance in business procedures along all the way such as preparing documentation for potential investors, compliance review with Mastercard standards and arranging the source code for transfer to a new company, so that they could independently work on their own technological platforms.

The industry of content monetization and subscription platforms is growing and evolving at a fast rate with new big players entering the market. Many of the new platforms are powered by blockchain technology, using cryptocurrency and NFTs, allowing a new kind of decentralised digital asset to be built, owned and monetised. We believe that it is a great success for the Connect team and Scrile in general to be involved in such ambitious projects and we always do our best to provide our clients with outstanding solutions for their projects to stand out of the crowd and become leaders of the industry.