
Evil Martians invade products that are pivoting or experiencing explosive growth—for internet startups and larger companies building spin-offs.
Local startup going to an IPO as a part of global business, a small team trying to disrupt a whole sector becoming a market leader, a big company launching profitable spin-offs, a unicorn shipping on point and improving engineering culture—stories that happen with Evil Martians as the technical backbone.
eCommerce
The ability to make assumptions, run multiple experiments, make changes, and iterate is what makes or breaks an eCommerce startup.
Enterprise
“Who says elephants can’t dance?” More and more enterprises are investing in building “internal startups”—to diversify, try new approaches for new customers, or stay relevant when battling the competition.
On-demand
On-demand startups have seen some of the most explosive growth in the past years. This comes with the need to scale to the highest loads and introduce new products quickly and without breaking any of the existing functionality.
Open Source
Open Source is our bread and butter at Evil Martians.
Fintech and Blockchain
The defining ability of a successful fintech startup technical team is to be able to find the perfect balance between shipping product as fast as possible and still conforming to all security practices and standards.
SaaS
Software as a Service startups is where lean software development methods shine. Every SaaS product team, no matter whether it was bootstrapped or just received a round of financing, needs to know how users use their software, where is the most significant value, and what are the features that are often misunderstood.
eCommerce
The ability to make assumptions, run multiple experiments, make changes, and iterate is what makes or breaks an eCommerce startup.
By applying lean development principles to the product itself, we ship working software as often as we can.
Evil Martians have been helping eCommerce startups to succeed for more than ten years. Our tech stack is based on languages and frameworks that are optimized for development speed, so we can ship faster and iterate without compromising on quality and security.
“ The design is only good when it converts
When it comes to the product itself and UI design, we apply our no-nonsense, conversion-based design approach: the design is only good when it converts. Behavior tracking, measuring conversion on every step, and iterating is always a part of the process.
Evil Martians had proudly took part in many eCommerce success stories, big and small. On the one hand, we served as a technical team for a small startup, handling explosive growth, rapid feature changes and a massive amount of traffic—right until our client got bought out by a global player and became a part of its IPO. On another hand, we worked with large, established players, and outperformed target metrics for our products while conforming to tight budgets, strict security standards, and corporate standards of a larger company.
Open Source
Open Source is our bread and butter at Evil Martians.
We use open-source products for almost everything that we do for our customers—and we also give back plenty.
Evil Martians have the experience of building commercial software products on top of existing open-source projects, tailoring the functionality for specific needs, and providing support and maintenance.
Be sure to check the list of Martian open-source projects.
For many of our own open-source products, we offer priority support, commercial add-ons, and consulting.
We provide commercial support for PostCSS, the tool for transforming styles with JavaScript plugins, trusted by industry leaders.
We provide a commercial version with extended features and commercial support for imgproxy, a fast and secure standalone server for resizing images.
AnyCable adds real-time features to your Ruby on Rails application without ever having to switch to another platform or language. We provide commercial support for AnyCable.
We also provide commercial support for Astrograph. Astrograph is the GraphQL interface to Stellar blockchain; it lowers the entry threshold to the Stellar ecosystem and reduces development costs.
Enterprise
“ Who says elephants can’t dance?
More and more enterprises are investing in building “internal startups”—to diversify, try new approaches for new customers, or stay relevant when battling the competition.
More often than not, the new product cannot be shipped without an intervention—managers are trying to play safe, internal development can take too long, and results can be unpredictable. Agile transformation is a big topic for enterprises, but larger companies still need some outside help to make the change.
At Evil Martians, we have experience delivering new products and “internal startups” for large, established companies, working closely with product managers who want to see the change happen.
Using agile software development methodologies and languages and frameworks that are optimized for development speed, we can deliver software faster while still working with legacy APIs and strict security requirements.
Fintech and Blockchain
The defining ability of a successful fintech startup technical team is to be able to find the perfect balance between shipping product as fast as possible and still conforming to all security practices and standards.
Martians have the experience of developing an innovative mobile-first bank, while still conforming to all required security standards (PCI DSS). We worked closely with the bank, payment gateways, and old-school APIs—all to deliver every release in a timely, iterative fashion to allow the product to grow.
With Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchain-based projects, we steer away from shady products and get rich quick schemes. Instead, we treat Blockchain as a technological solution for real-world problems.
“ We have particularly deep experience with Stellar network
While we can work with most blockchain technologies on the market, we have particularly deep experience with Stellar network, as we have developed an open-source framework for delivering Stellar-based applications in a timely and straightforward manner.
On-demand
On-demand startups have seen some of the most explosive growth in the past years.
This comes with the need to scale to the highest loads and introduce new products quickly and without breaking any of the existing functionality.
For that, it helps to be a polyglot company and have several languages and frameworks at our disposal—some optimized for development speed, some optimized for performance and low footprint.
It is also our experience that for most startups, languages and frameworks are not the performance bottleneck—but architecture decisions and database management skills are. We see excellent results when martian developers and DevOps engineers join an existing team to help.
For one of the unicorns in the on-demand space, Martians helped to implement some of the new products, scale quicker, and optimize some parts of the infrastructure. Martians also have the experience of working as a core technical team for a company that fulfills the needs of many big and well-known on-demand startups—an applicant tracking system for the on-demand space.
SaaS
Software as a Service startups is where Lean software development methods shine.
Every SaaS product team, no matter whether it was bootstrapped or just received a round of financing, needs to know how users use their software, where is the most significant value, and what are the features that are often misunderstood. And when the startup starts to gain traction and the attention of more prominent clients, it is of the utmost importance to keep everything running in a fast and stable manner—otherwise, people won’t be able to rely on the software.
We have experience with providing metrics-based, user-friendly and straightforward user interface design for SaaS startups, iterative development using modern back-end and front-end frameworks, and making sure the software scales with the number of users and size of data in their accounts.
Evil Martians run their own Software as a Service startups (social media management and analytics, eCommerce marketing analytics), using all the experience they’ve gathered with lean product development approach and performance-based design.