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4.5/5 (7 reviews)
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Their team consists of some of the brightest developers and digital strategists around to make sure that all of that exceptional creative work not only looks great but functions just as well. The company’s expert helps their clients to develop a foolproof strategy for apps in order to assure that the end product is in sync with the business goals. Flying hippo is a good mobile app development company.

Last updated May 13, 2026

Services

Mobile App Development Web Development UI-UX Design Web Design Branding

Industries Served

Real Estate Telecommunications Energy & Utilities Advertising & Marketing Environmental Services Retail & E-commerce Agriculture

Flying hippo Reviews

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From legacy on-premise to cloud-native in a timeline the vendor community said was impossible

Cameron Aldrich / Head of Digital Operations - Northstar Logistics Corp
Verified
Jan 06, 2026

Project summary: An international expansion required multi-currency, multi-language, and multi-warehouse capabilities that our existing platform could not support without a fundamental re-architecture.

We gave this team an aggressive timeline, a technically complex scope, and a client-side project team that was stretched thin and not always available at the speed the engagement required. They absorbed all of that gracefully. Where they needed input they were precise about what they needed and when. Where they could proceed independently they did. The result was a delivery that landed on time despite the constraints on our side, which I regard as evidence of genuine professional maturity.

PROS

Production system that has performed as specified since go-live without remediation work, documentation thorough enough to support internal maintenance, knowledge transfer that left our team genuinely capable

CONS

The quality of documentation they produce means our team needed to set aside dedicated review time to do it justice — a minor scheduling point rather than a genuine criticism

4.5
Overall
4.5
Quality
4.5
Schedule
5.0
Cost
4.5
Communication
Project TypeCloud Services
IndustryRetail & E-commerce
Project Cost$150,000 to $499,999
DurationJul 2025 – Nov 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Northstar Logistics Corp operates in the Retail & E-commerce sector with headquarters in Denver, USA. In my role as Head of Digital Operations I am accountable for the full technology agenda — infrastructure, product, and vendor relationships. We are a commercially driven organisation and every technology decision is evaluated against a clear business case before it is approved.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
Our platform had been maintained by a previous vendor for three years and the accumulated technical debt had reached a point where delivery velocity had dropped to a fraction of what it should have been. We needed fresh engineering expertise and a structured plan to address the underlying issues.
What services did the company provide for your project?
Primarily Cloud Services, with adjacent work in solution architecture and quality assurance. They were responsible for the full build from requirements through to go-live, including integration with four existing systems in our technology landscape. The breadth they covered without requiring additional vendors was commercially and logistically valuable.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
A trusted peer in the Retail & E-commerce sector had used them for a comparable Cloud Services engagement and their recommendation was unequivocal. Our own due diligence confirmed the pattern they described. The combination of domain knowledge, Cloud Services depth, and demonstrated delivery discipline was the deciding factor.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Better than we managed ourselves going in. The workshops they facilitated surfaced assumptions we had not examined and exposed three requirements that were in direct conflict with each other. Resolving those before development began saved us what would certainly have been significant rework later in the project.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
Professional and efficient. The project manager maintained a clear view of the critical path at all times and communicated changes to it transparently. The one significant scope adjustment we made mid-project was handled through a clean change request process — fairly priced, clearly documented, and absorbed without disrupting the overall timeline.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
Yes. I had privately built a contingency expectation into my planning given the project complexity and the number of integrations involved. None of that contingency was needed. The delivery landed on the agreed date and the final invoice matched the approved budget to within a fraction of a percent. That outcome is rarer than the industry acknowledges.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
We went live four months ago. User adoption exceeded the target we had set by 23 percent in the first month. Support ticket volume has dropped measurably. The features we had deferred because the previous architecture made them prohibitively expensive to build are now in development. The platform they built has opened our roadmap.
What did you like most about working with this company?
Their instinct for keeping the business objective visible throughout technical decision-making. I have worked with technically excellent teams who lose the strategic thread as complexity increases. This team maintained a clear connection between every architectural choice and the outcome we had agreed to achieve. That orientation made the trade-off conversations significantly easier.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Unreservedly. We are in active scoping conversations for a second engagement and I expect this to develop into a multi-year partnership. For any organisation in the Retail & E-commerce sector looking for Cloud Services expertise combined with genuine delivery discipline, I would put this team at the top of the evaluation list.

E-commerce build that united our digital and in-store inventory for the first time

Sebastian Lapointe / CTO - Boreal Systems Inc
Verified
Jan 03, 2026

Project summary: The project had a board-facing delivery date tied to a strategic initiative. We needed a partner who would treat that date as their own, not ours.

The integration layer was the part of the project I was most concerned about going in. Our system landscape is complex, several of the upstream APIs we relied on were poorly documented, and two third-party vendors had a history of unpredictable response times on integration questions. This team managed all of that. They documented what the upstream vendors could not, built resilience into the integration architecture where the upstream behaviour was unreliable, and delivered a solution that works as specified in production. I could not have asked for more.

PROS

Production system that has performed as specified since go-live without remediation work, documentation thorough enough to support internal maintenance, knowledge transfer that left our team genuinely capable

CONS

Pipeline availability for kickoff required a few weeks of lead time — in hindsight that selection pressure means you are working with a team that is in demand for the right reasons

4.5
Overall
4.5
Quality
5.0
Schedule
4.0
Cost
4.5
Communication
Project TypeE-commerce Development
IndustryAgriculture
Project Cost$150,000 to $499,999
DurationMar 2025 – Dec 2025

Questions & Answers

Please describe your company, your role, and the industry you operate in.
Boreal Systems Inc is an established Agriculture organisation headquartered in Toronto, Canada. My role as CTO covers both strategic planning and operational technology delivery. We maintain high standards for our vendors because our clients hold us to high standards — a bar we expect our partners to meet.
What specific problem or business challenge led you to hire this company?
Our platform had been maintained by a previous vendor for three years and the accumulated technical debt had reached a point where delivery velocity had dropped to a fraction of what it should have been. We needed fresh engineering expertise and a structured plan to address the underlying issues.
What services did the company provide for your project?
End-to-end E-commerce Development delivery with particular depth in the integration and data migration components, which were the highest-risk elements of the programme. They supplemented this with a dedicated QA resource throughout development and a documented runbook for our operations team at handover.
Why did you choose this company over other providers you considered?
We ran a structured shortlisting process across five vendors. The technical evaluation eliminated two immediately. Of the remaining three, this team's proposal was differentiated by the specificity of their E-commerce Development approach and the evidence base they provided — reference projects in Agriculture contexts, not generic case studies. The reference calls confirmed a track record that the proposal had described accurately.
How clearly did the company understand your requirements and business goals?
Better than we managed ourselves going in. The workshops they facilitated surfaced assumptions we had not examined and exposed three requirements that were in direct conflict with each other. Resolving those before development began saved us what would certainly have been significant rework later in the project.
How was your overall experience with their communication and project management?
Professional and efficient. The project manager maintained a clear view of the critical path at all times and communicated changes to it transparently. The one significant scope adjustment we made mid-project was handled through a clean change request process — fairly priced, clearly documented, and absorbed without disrupting the overall timeline.
Did the company deliver the project on time and within your expected budget?
Yes to both. There was a single sprint where a dependency on a third-party API introduced a one-week delay. The team identified it three weeks in advance, presented two mitigation options, and we agreed on an approach that recovered the schedule within the same sprint cycle. That level of foresight is what separates good project management from reactive problem management.
What tangible results or business impact have you seen since the project was completed?
We went live four months ago. User adoption exceeded the target we had set by 23 percent in the first month. Support ticket volume has dropped measurably. The features we had deferred because the previous architecture made them prohibitively expensive to build are now in development. The platform they built has opened our roadmap.
What did you like most about working with this company?
The continuity of the team. The engineers who participated in the discovery sessions were the engineers who built the system. That consistency of institutional knowledge across a six-month project has a value that is difficult to quantify but easy to notice when it is absent. Every conversation built on the previous ones.
Would you recommend this company to others, and would you work with them again?
Yes, without reservation. I have already made two direct referrals within my Agriculture network — in both cases to peers facing E-commerce Development challenges similar to ours. I gave those referrals with confidence because I knew the experience I described was reproducible, not the result of exceptional circumstances on our engagement.

Company Info

Founded 2003
Employees 10 - 49
Hourly Rate $100 - $149
Client Rating 4.5/5 (7 reviews)

Rating Breakdown

Quality
4.5
Schedule
4.6
Cost
4.6
Communication
4.4

FAQs

What kind of software work does Flying hippo take on?
Flying hippo typically covers the standard range of software development work — mobile apps, web platforms, custom internal tools, UI/UX design, cloud infrastructure, AI integrations, and larger enterprise builds. Its core focus areas include Branding, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development.
What happens with Flying hippo after the project actually launches?
Like most established software teams, Flying hippo typically sticks around post-launch for ongoing maintenance — bug fixes, performance tuning, security patching, new feature work, and general technical support. For context, it has experience across industries such as Retail & E-commerce, Advertising & Marketing, Telecommunications, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Services and Real Estate, and its listed capabilities span Branding, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development.
Roughly how long does a project with Flying hippo take start to finish?
It depends heavily on scope. A lean MVP might be a matter of weeks, while a full enterprise system or a larger digital transformation project can stretch into months once you factor in development, testing, and deployment. With a team of 10 - 49 professionals, Flying hippo can scale resources based on project urgency.
How do I actually get a real proposal out of Flying hippo instead of a generic reply?
The most reliable route is giving Flying hippo a clear, specific brief up front — through their website form, a direct email, or a call — since a vague ask tends to get a vague answer back, while a concrete one usually gets a proper estimate. For context, it has served clients in USA, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What should I actually be looking at when comparing a company like Flying hippo to others?
When you're weighing up a software partner such as Flying hippo, it's worth looking past the pitch and checking the portfolio, what past clients say, relevant industry background, technical range, how they communicate, pricing structure, project management style, and what support looks like after launch. For context, it has experience across industries such as Retail & E-commerce, Advertising & Marketing, Telecommunications, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Services and Real Estate, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
Can Flying hippo take on an old, outdated system rather than starting from scratch?
Modernizing legacy software is usually within scope for a firm like Flying hippo — re-platforming, refactoring old code, and moving things onto current frameworks or cloud infrastructure without necessarily rebuilding everything from zero. For context, it has experience across industries such as Retail & E-commerce, Advertising & Marketing, Telecommunications, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Services and Real Estate, and its typical hourly rate is around $100 - $149.
What should I expect to pay to work with Flying hippo?
What Flying hippo charges comes down to a handful of variables — how complex the project is, the number of development hours involved, the tech stack required, team size, and which engagement model you pick. Based on available data, Flying hippo's typical hourly rate is around $100 - $149, with an average project cost of $5000000+.
Will Flying hippo sign an NDA before we even discuss the project in detail?
Most professional shops, including Flying hippo, expect to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement before getting into specifics — it's a fairly standard ask and a reasonable one to make before sharing anything sensitive. For context, its listed capabilities span Branding, Mobile App Development, UI-UX Design, Web Design and Web Development, and it reports a team size of 10 - 49 professionals.
What kinds of industries has Flying hippo actually built for?
Flying hippo has delivered projects across a range of different industries, including Retail & E-commerce, Advertising & Marketing, Telecommunications, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Services and Real Estate.
What's the easiest way to actually get in touch with Flying hippo?
Most businesses reach Flying hippo through its website, a direct email, or a contact form — any of which works for discussing what you need, booking an initial conversation, or asking for a rough estimate. For context, it has experience across industries such as Retail & E-commerce, Advertising & Marketing, Telecommunications, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Services and Real Estate, and its typical hourly rate is around $100 - $149.

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