Interview with Oguzguc, Founder - Atolye15

Give us a quick overview on Atolye15. When and how did you begin this journey and what were your motives to be successful in app development?

We began this journey more than a decade now, and we want to continue our success to become a pioneer team in web design in development in the world. That was our main motive when we first started off, and still is and always will be because if there is one thing we strongly believe; it is that we can never stop learning, and there is always a new and better way to create better products.


What is your role in the management and development of Atolye15?

Since I have dedicated my whole life and my professional career to build Atölye15, I can definitely say that I am always hands on with the management of the company, as I was at the beginning, when we first founded Atölye15.


Tell us about your biggest achievement in the industry

Our biggest achievement in the industry probably is our consistency and ability to move forward to catch the latest technologies and keep up very successfully with the constant change in the ecosystem and improvements and embracing upcoming technologies, rather than sticking to one goal or one specific product to be proud with. We are on the constant quest of renovating ourselves and our technologies to be one of the pioneer development companies in the world.


How do you schedule the development phases of the apps to promise the timeline to your clients?

We work in sprints, and our clients are aware of these sprints from scratch to going live, since the beginning of the agreement phase. We do not overpromise, but we deliver what we have promised within the deadline as we have agreed with our clients.


How do you help your clients in choosing the right yet profitable platform for app development?

We are a team that always stays in touch with our clients since day 1. As we move on with the project, we understand the specific needs of our clients and rather than giving them what they want straight, we choose the hard way to assist them through what would be more profitable for them, in the short and long run.


Which would you suggest for a successful and profitable business progression, Native or hybrid apps? How do you define the factors that influenced you to make this choice?

We have developed mobile apps with Native, but upon the delivery of React Native, we have shifted our focus onto our know-how in JavaScript, and the high performance of React Native gave us the chance to move on in this pattern. And since we have focused one thing only, our know-how and ability to create great products improved so much within a short period of time, ended up seeing successful results and efficient business solutions for our clients.


How do you scheme your pricing model? How do you fix your budget?

We work on a man/hour basis, and we fix our rates in accordance with the complexity and the scope of the project.


How helpful are the mobile apps developed by your team, for enhancing your clients’ business?

We make users and therefore our clients’ lives better by providing sleek designed and useful apps to the end user, therefore our clients end up having a growing business, reaching out to millions of users, as one can examine on our previous and ongoing projects.


What according to you are the best practices to attain client satisfaction?

Client satisfaction mainly relies on trust of both parties, and also it is very important to be consistent of what you offer and deliver to clients, in the projected timeline. As a close-knit team of developers and designers, we always think that we can make our clients happy only by providing them with the services they need, not what they think they need. That’s why I think our clients are content with our work.


How do you update your business system to be in pace with the technological advancements?

We always try to derive our business system in accordance with the latest tech stack, and also provide resources for our team to be able to improve in the fields they are experts at, giving in that it is a really paced ecosystem, we maintain our standards of always taking a step further by implementing new technologies into our projects each and every day.


What are your thoughts about AR, VR and Internet of Things (IoT)?

AR, VR and Internet of Things (IoT) are not necessarily in the scope of our main fields; but in today’s world we cannot think of splitting these with development, meaning that we integrate AR, VR and IoT to many of our projects, which result in highly beneficial mobile apps in the market, marvelous products to work with.


What do you think will be the future of Mobile technology?

I think that we cannot comment on Mobile technology as the ‘future’ since in this era and day, it is already accepted and commonly used. It’s not future anymore, and with our experience for more than 10 years, we have shifted the weight of our projects from mostly web to mobile, working on mobile projects more and more. As a team it also gives us more joy, working on the mobile side.