At one point, Gründerplattform reached 5 million users per year, raising concerns about the system's future. The number of users strained the system and interrupted the service, making it crucial for the platform to transform. Gründerplattform set to develop a system that could handle a large number of users while remaining user-friendly and scalable.

To address the increasing number of users, Gründerplattform collaborated with ondeva to optimize development and create a stable platform for business users. Other than scalability needs, the speed of development had to be maintained, dev processes streamlined, and repetitive and time-consuming tasks eliminated.

With the help of the ondeva low-code platform, Gründerplattform created a full-scale web application with no hand-coding from their end.

Here are the main results achieved:

Firstly, ondeva’s architecture ensured the platform could deal with over 5 million users per year. Gründerplattform is always up and running and doesn’t freeze throughout the day. It is beneficial for both business users and developers, as it adapts itself to the activity of users and enables the dev team to release updates without downtime.

ondeva allowed Gründerplattform to scale while maintaining its existing system. For example, based on the data available, apps like Quick Checker of a business plan or a cap table management tool were developed to extend the current system’s functionality and provide users with the tools they need to start a business. As a result, users were able to automatically generate and download personalized business plans, financial projections, and other critical documents. The dev team launched the apps using ondeva’s rapid prototyping and testing features, deploying new features as user demand grew.

ondeva stores information in a structured format, which enables the admins to pull information concerning various user groups (users, partners, administrators among them). The data is stored in different layers of the system and can be abstracted easily, which eliminates the problem of handling big and messy datasets. This empowers developers and admin users to create and develop their processes for managing data without technical obstacles.

To adhere to technical SEO standards, Gründerplattform.de uses ondeva’s built-in feature that loads web pages with speed. ondeva allows platform managers to execute SEO-related tasks such as inputting meta descriptions and meta titles with ease. This enhances user experience, reduces bounce rates, and improves search discoverability.

To send personalized marketing newsletters, a set of workflow automations were designed and built. They use data points to tailor communication to customers and streamline processes such as audience segmentation, communication scheduling, and campaign performance analysis.

Management views of ondeva are designed for the stakeholders to generate data visualizations from the platform’s data. The visualizations take complex data layers and make them simple and easy to comprehend. Data is presented in the forms of graphs, charts, metrics, and trends, which provide insights or information on progress. ondeva focuses not only on simplifying development but also on representing data in a user-friendly manner, meaning that anyone can create professional-looking visualizations.

Thanks to ondeva, we’re now leading in the space of information sources for entrepreneurs in Germany. We created a super powerful web app that continues to scale, even though our development resources are limited. ondeva’s rapid prototyping capabilities enabled us to introduce new business tools and respond to user feedback instantly.

As Gründerplattform’s user base grows every day, ondeva continues to scale and deliver a top-quality user experience. This success story shows how low-code development solves complex use cases and can be used to build full-scale web applications of enterprise-level complexity or applications designed to complement legacy systems, without any coding.