Alejandro Escobar

Payroll processing web application. Ruby on Rails app hosted in Heroku. In just one year of operation it has processed more than 10,000 payrolls.

End user feedback was priority number one from the beginning. That's why the first MVP was built in three months, using lean and agile methods. This helped the platform grow from basic payroll processing, to a whole automation system for all employee related subjects inside the company. It currently integrates with seven accounting platforms and allows payments through four bank institutions.

Angel Hack has organized more than 200 hackathons around the world. During 24 intense hours we built Slashbox, a productivity plugin for Slack. We came out winners from over nineteen projects presented and almost eighty people in the competition.

Slashbox helps Slack teams to be more productive by providing an easy and efficient way to organize and search for company information. It uses Slack commands to allow for fast integration.

Salonomi is a point-of-sale and reservation system for beauty salons, gyms, and spas.

More than 5,000 invoices worth over USD 100k have been created through Salonomi. Currently it has approximately fifty users and more than 200 customers.

It was built using Ruby on Rails and React.

Together with two other developers, we built a software development company called Kaizen Devs. For about a year and a half we built more than ten products. This included web applications as well as mobile applications.

We decided to shut down because of the difficulties we were having with lead generation and therefore revenue. Nevertheless, it was a great learning experience because it gave me a broad perspective into the business logistics of software development.