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A start-up with a product to ship and no engineering team has two options: spend months hiring, or start building. Brainbox started building — with Acube's developers.
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Founders know the shape of this problem. The product is designed, the roadmap is written, customers are waiting — and there is nobody to write the code. Hiring a team takes months and a budget a young company may not have, and every month spent hiring is a month the launch slips.
That was the position at Brainbox, a start-up in Kerala built around one product: a web app / SaaS. Brainbox had no in-house development team, and the product was behind schedule.
Acube provided dedicated developers — a team of 2–3 working on the front end in React / Angular — as part of Brainbox's team, for more than a year. The product launched, releases came faster, and Brainbox saved the cost and time of hiring a full in-house team. The engagement started before 2019.
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| Client | Brainbox |
| Location | Kerala, India |
| Industry | Start-up — web app / SaaS product |
| Engagement | Dedicated developers (staff augmentation) — 2–3 developers, React / Angular, over a year |
| When | Started before 2019 |
Brainbox had a product to build and a date to hit. It didn't have the people.
The founders needed engineers they didn't have.
The launch and the roadmap were slipping.
The cost of staying as-is: for a start-up, time is the scarcest resource. A launch that slips while you recruit is a launch your competitors may beat you to.
Brainbox didn't need an outsourced project handed back at the end. It needed developers working on its product, day to day, as part of its team.
| Capability | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| Dedicated developers | 2–3 Acube developers working on Brainbox's product as part of its team. |
| Front-end development in React / Angular | Developers skilled in the modern JavaScript frameworks the product is built with. |
| A long-term engagement | The team stayed for more than a year, so knowledge of the product stayed with the people building it. |
| No hiring overhead | Brainbox got working developers without running a recruitment process. |
Brainbox didn't share a measured figure, so we are not quoting one. Three outcomes matter:
Brainbox shipped its web app.
New features reached users more quickly.
Brainbox didn't have to build a full in-house team to get there.
The two problems — no team and a slipping schedule — share one cause: there weren't enough hands on the product. Dedicated developers answer that directly, and they answer it now, not after a recruitment cycle.
The engagement lasted over a year. That matters as much as the headcount: developers who stay learn the product, its code and its users, and every release after the first is faster for it. A rotating cast of contractors never gets there.
Staff augmentation is one of the ways we work with technology companies — alongside building products end to end. We have done it since 2011, and 70% of our work comes by referral.
Dedicated developers, as Brainbox used, make sense when:
, or not enough of one.
because there aren't enough people writing code.
you don't have, or cost more than the company can carry right now.
, on your priorities, rather than a project handed back at the end.
to learn your product, not a rotating cast.
If that is your situation, the useful first conversation is about what you're building, the skills it needs and how many people would move it forward.
See what it would cost — Answer a few plain questions about how you work, and see a real figure.
In staff augmentation, the developers work on your product as part of your team, day to day, and you set the priorities. Brainbox worked this way: Acube's developers joined its team rather than taking a fixed project away and handing it back.
Whatever the work needs. Brainbox worked with a team of 2–3.
As long as you need it. Brainbox's ran for more than a year.
Brainbox's developers worked in React / Angular. Acube also provides developers for ERPNext and Frappe, Python and Django, Flutter, Node.js, Java Spring Boot and more — see our staff augmentation pages.
Brainbox chose it partly to save the cost and time of hiring an in-house team. Whether it's cheaper for you depends on how long you need the developers and how quickly you need them — we'll give you a straight comparison.
Yes. The team is sized to the work. Brainbox worked with 2–3 developers; tell us how your needs change and we'll adjust.
Get a clear plan, an honest timeline, and a fixed scope. Talk to a real expert today — whether or not you work with us.
or write to info@acube.co
Kochi (Kadavanthra & Infopark) · Thiruvananthapuram · across India & overseas · In business since 2011