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Business Software Development

Business Software Development 

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We are Elixir software development consultants who specialize in delivering massive cost reductions to business owners
by eliminating time-intensive processes.

We are Elixir software development consultants who specialize in delivering massive cost reductions to business owners
by eliminating time-intensive processes.

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The Elixir language's Phoenix framework is the epitome of cutting edge open source software. With Phoenix, we build highly interactive realtime web applications using the same technology of our nation's rock solid telecomm network.

The Elixir language's Phoenix framework is the epitome of cutting edge open source software. With Phoenix, we build highly interactive realtime web applications using the same technology of our nation's rock solid telecomm network.

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The gold standard of getting from back-of-the-napkin idea to market quickly is Ruby on Rails. Twitter, AirBnB, Twitch, and Hulu all began with small, highly productive teams using this technology.

The gold standard of getting from back-of-the-napkin idea to market quickly is Ruby on Rails. Twitter, AirBnB, Twitch, and Hulu all began with small, highly productive teams using this technology.

Instead of spending money on software, let's
build software that makes you money.

From rescuing a project, to augmenting your team, or making your business
more efficient, we've got you covered.

Web Development

We use best-in-class technologies (Phoenix/Rails) to rapidly build reliable software that remedies your growing business' most acute inefficiencies.

Mobile Development

You need your office staff to know exactly what's going on in the field. We'll keep everyone on the same page with a Flutter mobile application. No backend yet? We do that too.

Our customers streamline their tedious
processes with bespoke software.

Here are a few projects that we've done over the years.

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CUSTOM SOFTWARE BUILD

Local Fare Jax

It all started with frustration that their off the shelf software had an 8-step online store sign up. We did some due diligence and discovered that their software platform belonged to a bankrupt company that hadn't done a major update in over 5 years. We built them an entire platform that:

  • Reduced their sign up to 4 steps
  • Delivered massive speed improvements due to building it on the lightning-fast Phoenix LiveView technology
  • ​Built a bespoke software algorithm for calculating deliveries/logistics
  • ​Removed the need for member passwords with magic link login
  • ​Delivered a full routing system, from mobile app, to inner staff realtime routing interface, and updates for their members
  • ​Pioneered a completely custom online store, never before done in LiveView
  • ​Complete inventory management system that tracks their item quantities against what was purchased in the store
  • ​Pioneered an automatic allergy-to-item matching algorithm that keeps members safe by auto-substituting items with allergens
  • ​Painlessly serves 3,000+ families in Jacksonville, FL
  • Technologies: Phoenix LiveView - Elixir - PostgresSQL
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TEAM AUGMENTATION

Metalink

We teamed up with the Metalink team to get them extra horsepower to build out their new Phoenix API backend platform. We built:

  • Periodic crawls of the blockchain to confirm NFT ownership
  • Calculated portfolio value for NFT holders
  • Built a highly scalable live chat system using Phoenix channels
  • ​Used a port of a Rust library to authenticate Metamask wallets
  • Did a live re-launch from their .NET v1 system to a ravenous set of 15,000 users
  • Technologies: VueJs - Phoenix - ElixirL
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CUSTOM SOFTWARE | QUICKBOOKS INTEGRATION | DOCUMENT AUTOMATION

ZenCase

We took their legal practice management from an in-house built system and transformed it into a fully-featured competitive SaaS product.

  • Build a fully-featured Quickbooks integration that has processed tens of millions in invoices and payments
  • ​​Created a serverless function that painlessly generates legal documents on the fly
  • ​Sped up legal delivery times massively through automatic document generation.
  • ​​Interviewed and Hired 7 software engineers
  • ​​They doubled their revenue
  • ​​We use zencase to this day to maintain the back-office for Or Equals
  • ​​Technologies: EmberJS - Ruby on Rails
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CUSTOM SOFTWARE BUILD

Letter Legal Seperator

We took their legal practice management from an in-house built system and transformed it into a fully-featured competitive SaaS product.

  • Separates two PDF documents by page size
  • Built in 1 weekend
  • ​Dynamically calcultes a stacking guide so that users can re-stack their paper
  • After the build, we got a pleasant email from a notary that found the app very useful!
  • Technologies: Ruby on Rails - StimulusJS
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CUSTOM DISCORD BOT

Ouroboros Discord Bot

We built a heavy-duty Discord moderation bot that can scale to hundreds of discord servers and hundreds of thousands of users.

  • Compiles server stats
  • ​Total Modmail system so that users can discreetly request and coordinate moderation.
  • ​Built with scale in mind. Can handle immense server load and message volume.
  • Technologies: Elixir - Discord API
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DISPATCHING SOFTWARE FOR TRUCKERS

ACE Dispatch

We built a heavy-duty Discord moderation bot that can scale to hundreds of discord servers and hundreds of thousands of users.

  • ​We built this dispatching software for a trucking company that completely transformed the dispatching story. Dispatching staff could quickly update routes company-wide. Truckers could easily get the updates.
  • ​We also built an integration with the truckers' handheld devices, so that they could mark deliveries on the fly.

PROGRESSIVE WEB APP

Patient Pilot

Collaborating with Jitesh Doshi of Spinspire and Dr. Arnold Silverberg, we built Patient Pilot in 24 hours.

It's a Progressive Web App (you can download it on your phone) that helps streamline the process of surgeons educating their patients on elective surgeries. This was a big event put on by the city of Palm Coast, Florida.

We took 2nd place and contributed to creating a better world! Check out the article from Flagler Live.

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A software development shop obsessed with delivering real-world business value.

In October 2019, Joshua Plicque left a Software Engineering Lead position to pursue his personal passion of day trading in the stock market. Along the way, in January 2020, he found his phone chirping with opportunities to solve three company's business problems through software. With this much opportunity, Or Equals was born.

Joshua's career began under the tutelage of the world-class developers of Hashrocket, a lauded Ruby-on-Rails shop. After apprenticing there for a year, he honed his skills for 4 years at ZenCase, a legal practice management startup. When things started taking off at the startup, he fielded a rockstar team of EmberJS and Rails developers.

He founded Or Equals on the 3 core principles of: radical honesty, software excellence through craftmanship, and continuous improvement. His software experience spans the fashion, trucking, travel, workplace productivity, and insurance industries. Due to these varied experiences, he brings a dynamic and well-rounded approach, founded upon delivering business value. View his work experience here.

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What others are saying about us

"The search filters Or Equals built are amazing."

- CHRIS CURRY, CEO of Local Fare Jax

"Everyone in our team loves the software Or Equals built! Tremendous Job!"

- MARA MCGURL, Senior Marketing Representative at ISU

"The Or Equals team is really awesome. Really recommend it!"

- NATHAN JOHNSON, CEO of Cannasavers

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Make software work for you.

We have a proven track record of cutting business costs, improving productivity, and increasing happiness.

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