Our name: Why we spell Pieoneers with an "e"
Written byJane Friedmann on March 24th, 2024
We get a lot of questions from clients about why we spell Pieoneers with an "e." Do we love pie? Are we just bad spellers? Here's the real answer!
Insights and updates on our mobile and web development and UX-UI. Thoughts on web design and a few things we love: Node.js, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Python, Django, iOS, Android, Docker, and Kubernetes. Innovation in health and wellness app development.
Written byJane Friedmann on March 24th, 2024
We get a lot of questions from clients about why we spell Pieoneers with an "e." Do we love pie? Are we just bad spellers? Here's the real answer!
Written byGene Dolzhenko on February 20th, 2024
The health and wellness apps market is booming with new users joining every day. The rise of the “connected self” has enabled users to monitor their fitness, diet, and stress levels through various mobile apps that track those metrics. With so many apps available in this space, it can be challenging for developers to stand out from the crowd.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on December 19th, 2023
In the relentless pursuit of technological excellence, Pieoneers Software Inc. is ecstatic to unveil "Alph - App Architect", a revolutionary addition to our arsenal of advanced tools. Alph stands as a beacon of innovation, a testament to our unyielding commitment to harnessing the latest in AI to empower our clients.
Written byAndrew Manshin on December 18th, 2023
In a world increasingly driven by software, the importance of maintaining robust security protocols in code cannot be overstated. At Pieoneers Software Inc., we recognize this imperative and dedicate ourselves to the meticulous practice of code security auditing. This guide delves into the nuances of this crucial process, combining insights from our experiences with the Jevitty Life Sciences app and Bodycomp Imaging technician platform.
Written byGene Dolzhenko on December 4th, 2023
The company Manifest monitors the mobile healthcare app development market. They have done their research and published a list of the top 100 healthcare app developers in Canada with descriptions, reviews and awards. Our company Pieoneers was ranked number 3.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on November 30th, 2023
Pieonners CEO Olena Tkhorovska at the iTech 2023 conference in Vancouver
The iTech conference presented a compelling confluence of expertise and forward-thinking, an event that I found both professionally enriching and strategically important. It was great to meet prominent companies like Cloudflare, IBM, and Vasion. They offered nuanced insights, reinforcing the need for agile adaptation within our digital ecosystems.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on November 28th, 2023
The trends in app development are evolving quickly. Adoption of low-code and cross-platform app development is on the rise. The picture displays a dynamic arrangement of contemporary gadgets, sensors, and user interfaces that facilitate interaction.
Low-code platforms have transformed ideas into usable apps in record time, which is critical for organizations trying to adapt and develop swiftly in their industries.
Written byGene Dolzhenko on November 23rd, 2023
Mobile applications have become an integral part of our lives. As a Product and Project Manager at Pieoneers Software, I am excited to share our latest developments. One of them is a prototype mobile application designed exclusively for women.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on November 16th, 2023
Pieoneers Software is an expert in health and wellness app development. The company has the tech expertise, and the team is genuinely motivated to help bring innovation to preventative health and the healthcare system. The illustration shows smart wearable devices, sensors, and digital health platforms that collect, store, and process information, providing AI-powered health insights.
Delving into the health tech universe has been quite an adventure for me. As someone deeply passionate about my health and technology's transformative power, I've seen how apps can reshape our wellness journeys. Each app I've encountered has enriched my daily routines and signalled the vast potential and growing trends in health tech development.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on November 10th, 2023
A crossroads in a vibrant digital landscape with trees, with a main signpost pointing left and right labelled 'AI Future'. Other signs say Ethics, Nithics, Transformation. The signs imply many benefits in AI Development and that innovation can take another direction than ethics. There may be undiscovered things like 'nithics', which is a made-up word, a play on 'ethics'. Letter 'n' adds a hint this points in neither direction.
Dive into our exploration of AI's transformative impact on the world, where enhanced efficiency, user-centric design, and emerging markets converge to redefine the future of business and society.
Written byGene Dolzhenko on November 8th, 2023
OpenAI’s new GPT Store is a game-changer. It unlocks the potential to create and publish custom GPTs. A world of tailored AI is responsibly crafted and user-inspired.
Explore the world of custom AI chatbots with OpenAI's innovative platform, where users can both create and sell their unique ChatGPT models in a new online marketplace.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on August 2nd, 2023
At Contentful, the company often compares itself to WordPress and Drupal, two different but leading platforms in their own right. At Pieoneers, we have compared Contentful to WordPress, a long-standing leading CMS, and Wix, a user-friendly site builder that provides a simpler but less flexible alternative to platforms like Squarespace.
Written byAlex Dolzhenko on May 1st, 2023
Pieoneers and RST are working together to lay out the mobile application UX at a workshop using a user stories map.
Pieoneers Software Inc partnered with RST Technologies Inc, a Canadian company specializing in precision measurement instruments and custom sensor solutions for the construction, mining, and manufacturing industries, to develop a modern Android mobile app. In this blog post, we will highlight the critical elements of the project, which resulted in a highly stable and efficient mobile app that offers enhanced functionality and a modern, intuitive design.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on September 4th, 2022
Logos of universities whose representatives attended the conference including NYU, LSE, UBC, SFU, ASU, the Citadel, Stanford, Cambridge, and Berkeley
The DRH conference took place August 29-31, 2022, in Vancouver, BC at the Fairmont Waterfront building. DRH stands for the Database of Religious History. Academics and researchers from the top universities attended the conference to share their knowledge and experience contributing to the Database of Religious History platform.
Written byMika Martin on September 20th, 2021
As a software developer company always on look out for the best of the best to bring to the table for our clients, Pieoneers can wholeheartedly attest that Hasura is one of prime tools for modern solutions.
Written byJane Friedmann on February 7th, 2021
What makes a development company a competent and effective one? Well, they should be able to bring the client’s meaningful ideas to life. They should know the best fitting technologies to use in order to effectively develop a project. Lastly, they should be familiar with the best industry practices.
Written byMika Martin on January 26th, 2021
Backed up by Google, Firebase boasts robust functionality, has a long list of APIs and provides in-depth analytics of your application’s performance. As Pieoneers’ team can attest, it is exactly the kind of platform you expect to get when you hear Backend As A Service and Google in one sentence.
Written byAnna Stark on November 22nd, 2020
Rich in exhibiting web & mobile app development services, Pieoneers commenced in 2009 is based in Vancouver. At Pieoneers, the professionals work with established businesses and ambitious startups in the US and Canada. All of the applications are reinforced with inherent user-experiences, beautiful interfaces, and a state of the art design. With more than ten years of industry knowledge, the experts ensure that they're equipped and up-to-date with all the latest advanced technologies. In addition to the comprehensive tech stack, the professionals offer strategic marketing & branding services to help the clients reach the right audiences at optimal speed. The company comprises expert designers, developers, and strategists who have developed and launched 40+ projects. The clients appreciate most about working with the experts at Pieoneers is because of their desire to go beyond anticipated project deliverables and assure that products bring the right audiences, strike set goals, and uncover new possibilities along the way.
Written byAndrew Manshin on July 19th, 2020
Like The Matrix, the world of computing isn’t actually visible in the gritty, resource-hungry real world. When we see a web page load on a screen, it doesn’t matter if we access that virtual world from a barely-functioning laptop, a late model smartphone, or a massive-screened computing colossus used to render modern blockbuster games and movies. Each device is a window into the world that the content lives in. And that world is not permanently fixed in size or features.
Written byFedor Khardikov on May 18th, 2020
At the beginning of 2020, Tanis Steward, CEO of Sosido Networks Inc, asked Pieoneers to update Sosido’s aging Ruby on Rails application. The dated Ruby 2.3.1 stack the application was based on was no longer supported by the hosting platform Heroku.
Written byJane Friedmann on May 17th, 2020
Modern mobile application development is often hampered by the options available for the platforms available. Will your application be intended for iOS, or Android? Both, plus desktop web browsers? What versions? What specific devices? How long do you intend to support the application, and what does this mean for the limitations and maintenance of your desired application? These questions and their answers have a serious effect on the potential for any application’s success in the marketplace, and the amount of effort that development teams have to put into creating and maintaining a successful application in the wild.
Written byJane Friedmann on May 7th, 2020
So, what’s the big deal with Kotlin versus Java? Java, the object-oriented language created by Sun Microsystems at the end of the 20th century, has embedded itself throughout virtually all areas of the world’s technology infrastructure in those two decades. Java, Java Beans, Java Virtual Machines, JavaScript, and all those .js libraries out there have permeated technology implementations in virtually every economic sector and every technology platform. But every success plants the seeds of its own failure. Things get old. Stale. Not pleasant to deal with, as the world changes around the fading technology star. From such ground Kotlin was born.
Written byJane Friedmann on April 30th, 2020
A huge THANK YOU to topdevelopers.biz for ranking us as the 5th leading mobile app development company, and #6 for web development, in the USA for 2020!
Written byJane Friedmann on April 15th, 2020
While many folks are working from home for the first time due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Pieoneers have been operating as a distributed workforce for years. Read more to find out our top tips for creating a productive work environement.
Written byJane Friedmann on April 14th, 2020
Nadia working from home doing QA
Are you new to working from home? Or looking for online tools that can help you improve your remote work? Here are the top software products we use to level up our remote workspace:
Written byAndrew Manshin on April 6th, 2020
These are challenging times, while many businesses are struggling to stay afloat others, as essential services, are seeing a huge surge in traffic. Many necessary websites are down and in need of upgrades to their technical architecture and others are requiring to amend services to be able to continue to offer them while practicing social distancing. What are the top 3 things I can do to manage this surge?
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on March 27th, 2020
Many offline businesses are struggling right now with modifying their business plan to go online during the Coronavirus crisis.
Pieoneers asks: how can we as the tech community help?
— Olena Tkhorovska
Written byJane Friedmann on March 19th, 2020
User Experience workshops are a critical part of the planning stage for any app development project. The process helps development teams determine release priorities and generate realistic timelines, while the client is able to strategically assess which features your users absolutely cannot live without and how these features fit into the larger project goal. The workshop process can vary in complexity and take anywhere from an afternoon to a full week design sprint; it’s completely tailored to your needs. With innumerable approaches on how to initiate product work, here is a brief outline of the most basic nuts and bolt elements that go into creating a successful UX Design Workshop.
Written byJane Friedmann on March 2nd, 2020
Last week our CEO and Co-Founder Olena attended the OVOU 100th conference for tech entrepreneurs. The panel was made up of several top industry leaders, and well, we took notes. Here are the list of influencers and the lessons they shared.
Written byJenni Sheppard on December 24th, 2019
TechReviewer has featured us on its list of Top iOS Developers and named us one of the most trustworthy Ruby on Rails companies!
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on December 4th, 2019
Another day, another tech meetup for our CEO Olena Tkhorovska! This time, she attended a fireside chat with Boris Wertz, where she got an insider’s view of investing in startups.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on November 22nd, 2019
This month, our roving CEO Olena Tkhorovska attended the TechVancouver November Edition, where she learned about one of the top skills in business and in life—sales.
Written byJenni Sheppard on November 18th, 2019
We speak to our client Dr. Willis Monroe to get his take on our design-driven approach and what our clients can expect from the creative process.
Written byJenni Sheppard on November 13th, 2019
We speak to our client Dr. Willis Monroe about the growth of digital humanities and how Pieoneers helped UBC blaze a trail through academia with its Database of Religious History.
Written byJenni Sheppard on November 5th, 2019
An introduction to JavaScript and how this powerful programming language can make your next website or mobile app modern, competitive, and successful!
Written byJenni Sheppard on October 28th, 2019
We speak to our client Dr. Willis Monroe about how Pieoneers helped develop UBC’s groundbreaking Database of Religious History—and overcome a few familiar pain points.
Written byJenni Sheppard on September 25th, 2019
We’re proud to announce that Pieoneers has been recognized by Clutch as a Top App Development Company for Startups!
Written byJane Friedmann on August 28th, 2019
What we learned at #DCC2019, shared by our CEO Olena Tkhorovska.
Written byJane Friedmann on August 21st, 2019
Check out an interview with our co-founders Andrew and Olena from way back in 2014!
Written byJane Friedmann on August 14th, 2019
The Pieonners Team chatted with Dr. Willis Monroe about our ongoing partnership with the UBC DRH and future plans, check out the interview!
Written byJane Friedmann on July 26th, 2019
Our Marketing Stretegist Jane enjoyed a free seminar on SEO at the BC Tech Hub in East Van.
Written byJane Friedmann on July 23rd, 2019
Pieoneers is proud of our ongoing partnership with the UBC DRH (Database of Religious History).
Written byJane Friedmann on July 8th, 2019
Developing a completely new system for V3, in React, Node.js, Swift, Go Lang, Postgres, Vue, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes, allows GameSheet to serve a higher user-load with maximum speed.
Written byJane Friedmann on May 27th, 2019
Olena and the DRH team meet at the London School of Economics
This week, Olena visited London, UK for our weekly UBC DRH meeting, and got a special tour of the British Museum.
Written byJane Friedmann on May 2nd, 2019
Software development is essentially about people and teams of people. Humans are the ones using the software, so it should make your life easier or benefit you in some way. Pieoneers is focused on people first, coding comes second. We achieve our user-centered approach through a variety of channels.
They can help fulfill any complex technological need and assist on product strategies and user experience.
— Nathan Slee, Founder Progressa Financial Services
Written byJane Friedmann on April 2nd, 2019
Packaging your high tech app requires a coordinated branding effort; with fonts, colours and a logo that all work together. The advantage of hiring a professional designer to develop your brand is that they are trained to see things you and I just won’t. They also have years of experience, which allows them to stay ten steps ahead and plan efficiently.
Written byJane Friedmann on March 15th, 2019
Two new updates elevate the hockey scoring platform to new heights!
Written byRichard Ballermann on March 11th, 2019
Interview with Pieoneers Graphic Designer Richard Ballermann on Sketch vs. Figma for mobile app design.
Written byJane Friedmann on March 5th, 2019
Before joining team Pieoneers, our Creative Copywriter, Jane worked on a music video that is now heading on a rocket for the moon.
Written byJane Friedmann on February 21st, 2019
Thinking of adding Social Media to your marketing mix? Don't know where to start? Our Marketing Specialist Jane, helps your wrap your head around growing your business online.
Written byOlena Tkhorovska on February 6th, 2019
Search Engine Optimization is a popular buzzword nowadays, everyone is talking about it, everyone wants it. But how do you know if you really have it? And how do you know when it’s working? Our simple guide will help walk you through the key steps you need to consider while setting up SEO for your brand, product or website.
Written byJane Friedmann on January 17th, 2019
What they’ve done is give me direction around running my business for the short and long term.
— Nicholas Simpson, Strength and Conditioning Coach in Alberta, Canada
Written byRichard Ballermann on January 13th, 2019
Whenever we begin a new marketing project, it’s common feel a bit overwhelmed. When you feel like you’ve got so much on the line, working with this level of uncertainty will usually make most people feel just a little bit uncomfortable. Like it or lump it, we have to start somewhere. Here’s how we begin a project from scratch.
Written byJane Friedmann on January 10th, 2019
Pieoneers is proud to be featured on GoodFirms.co as a top mobile app development studio in Vancouver, BC.
Written byShane McCallum on December 20th, 2018
Our Flight Plan phase helps prepare individuals and organizations for the challenge of designing, building and marketing their digital product. You wouldn’t build a house without blueprints, likewise starting your app development project before outlining a detailed plan is bound to bring some unexpected hiccups along the way.
Written byJane Friedmann on December 5th, 2018
We are thrilled to announce that we have been listed in the top 1,000 most highly recommended companies in the world by Clutch!
Written byJane Friedmann on December 5th, 2018
Our cross-continental roots have led to a unique business model where team members collaborate digitally from all corners of the globe. Our distributed model gives us an edge on efficiency; with developers ten time zones ahead, project managers wake up to fresh ideas and can pass on feedback to be implemented overnight. This creates a minimum time-lag for bug fixes and platform maintenance.
Written byJane Friedmann on November 30th, 2018
Find out how we are breaking down barriers and boosting collaboration, not only within our team, but also with our valued clients.
Written byJane Friedmann on November 2nd, 2018
Our co-founders Olena Tkhorovska and Andrew Manshin may live in Vancouver, Canada now, but they first met at a cafe in Kyiv, Ukraine.