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| Founded: | 2008 |
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| Hourly Rates: | N/A |
| Employees: | 2 - 9 |
| Avg. Project Cost: | $25,000+ |
| Ratings: |
4.5
6 Reviews
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About
Smudge develops mobile solutions to help business around New Zealand engage with mobile device users. The culture and capability are fantastic and they have passed their expectations. Their designers are award-winners and their expert mobile app developers have masters to make high-quality apps. They always try to provide the best applications they can. They take great pride not just in their work but in all it’s helping their clients to achieve.
Smudge Apps Reviews
Product teams can finally move independently instead of queuing behind each other
Hamza Farooqi / Co-Founder & CTO | May 22, 2026Five months post-launch, we're running at roughly double the transaction volume we'd specified in the original scope document, and the platform hasn't needed a single structural change to handle it. That's the real tell for whether a team designed for what you told them versus what you were actually going to need. We're now scoping a second phase and I expect this to be a multi-year relationship at this point.
Project summary
Expanding internationally meant we suddenly needed multi-currency, multi-language, and multi-warehouse support that our existing platform simply wasn't architected for.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.0 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | DevOps Services |
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| Project Cost: | $150,000 to $499,999 |
| Project Duration: | Aug 2025 - Mar 2026 |
| Business Type: | Retail & E-commerce |
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| Location: | Karachi, Pakistan |
Questions & Answers
Collapsed a two-week release cycle down to same-day deployments
Fiona McAllister / Chief Technology Officer | May 10, 2026Going in, the integration work was what worried me most. Our systems landscape is messy, a couple of the third-party APIs we depend on are barely documented, and one of those vendors has a well-earned reputation for slow, inconsistent support. This team absorbed all of that. They documented what the upstream providers wouldn't, built in resilience wherever the upstream behavior was flaky, and shipped something that has worked exactly as specified since go-live. I genuinely couldn't have asked for more on that front.
Project summary
A licensing deal had handed us a major catalogue, but our streaming infrastructure couldn't deliver it reliably at scale. We needed a cloud-native video platform inside of six months.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | DevOps Services |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | Jun 2025 - Apr 2026 |
| Business Type: | Media & Entertainment |
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| Location: | Glasgow, UK |
Questions & Answers
Finally translated our infrastructure needs into terms our CFO could actually approve
Ananya Raman / Director of Engineering | May 09, 2026Going in, the integration work was what worried me most. Our systems landscape is messy, a couple of the third-party APIs we depend on are barely documented, and one of those vendors has a well-earned reputation for slow, inconsistent support. This team absorbed all of that. They documented what the upstream providers wouldn't, built in resilience wherever the upstream behavior was flaky, and shipped something that has worked exactly as specified since go-live. I genuinely couldn't have asked for more on that front.
Project summary
This project had a board-facing deadline tied to a wider strategic push. We needed a partner who'd treat that date like it was their own problem, not just ours.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | IT Consulting |
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| Project Cost: | $10,000 to $49,999 |
| Project Duration: | Aug 2025 - Apr 2026 |
| Business Type: | Gaming & Gambling |
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| Location: | Kochi, India |
Questions & Answers
Kept every bit of the old site's SEO equity while adding the features we actually needed
Kenji Watanabe / Director of IT Strategy | Feb 15, 2026Going in, the integration work was what worried me most. Our systems landscape is messy, a couple of the third-party APIs we depend on are barely documented, and one of those vendors has a well-earned reputation for slow, inconsistent support. This team absorbed all of that. They documented what the upstream providers wouldn't, built in resilience wherever the upstream behavior was flaky, and shipped something that has worked exactly as specified since go-live. I genuinely couldn't have asked for more on that front.
Project summary
First notice of loss was taking us three days on average against a market benchmark of under four hours. Automating that intake and triage step became the clear priority.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | CMS Development |
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| Project Cost: | Less than $10,000 |
| Project Duration: | Apr 2025 - Nov 2025 |
| Business Type: | Insurance |
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| Location: | Yokohama, Japan |
Questions & Answers
The return on this investment outpaced the business case we originally approved
Rashid Al-Marzouqi / Chief Technology Officer | Feb 07, 2026We had proposals in hand ranging from roughly half to well over double what we eventually paid this team. What set their proposal apart wasn't the price — it was that the number matched what they actually delivered, almost line for line. I've been burned before by proposals that were really just opening offers in a negotiation that continues throughout the project. That wasn't the case here, and I don't say that lightly.
Project summary
Our actuarial models had outgrown the reporting pipeline feeding them, and the resulting data lag was introducing real risk into pricing decisions the business wasn't comfortable carrying anymore.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 4.5 Quality |
| 4.5 Schedule |
| 4.5 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Low-Code / No-Code Development |
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| Project Cost: | Less than $10,000 |
| Project Duration: | Feb 2025 - Nov 2025 |
| Business Type: | Insurance |
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| Location: | Sharjah, UAE |
Questions & Answers
Friday deployments finally feel routine instead of something to brace for
Bartosz Nowicki / Head of Development | Jan 29, 2026Looking back, the thing that stands out most is how uneventful the whole project was. Technology projects of this size tend to generate their share of fire drills and awkward escalation calls. This one really didn't. Issues got flagged early enough that they never became incidents, scope changes went through an actual process instead of a tense phone call, and risks were tracked rather than just hoped away. That kind of quiet competence is unusual in my experience, and it made the whole thing feel easier on our end than I know it was on theirs.
Project summary
Years of incremental patches had left us with a platform that technically worked but was quietly holding the business back strategically. A proper rebuild was the agreed way forward.
| 4.5 Overall Rating |
| 5.0 Quality |
| 5.0 Schedule |
| 4.0 Project Cost |
| 5.0 Willing To Refer |
| Project Type: | Quality Assurance & Testing |
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| Project Cost: | $50,000 to $149,999 |
| Project Duration: | Jan 2025 - Oct 2025 |
| Business Type: | Fashion & Apparel |
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| Location: | Kraków, Poland |
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