Project Details
Project Cost
$50,001 - $150,000
Project Duration
2 - 5 Years
Industry
- Art, Entertainment & Music
- Startups
What type of Project it was?
- Android
- iPhone
- Native Mobile App
- Web App
- Others
What Technologies were used?
python backend, Swift/Xcode/ Kotlin, React Native
What are the improvement area of the company?
STAY AWAY. This is a very unprofessional company. Although they claim to be a CMMI Level 5 company, I highly doubt that claim because they are probably the worst run software development company I have ever dealt with. And most of all, they won’t finish your projects and leave you high and dry. Here are my experiences for two projects I had with them:
1) Low End Developers and Project Managers & Management - They have very LOW END Developers whose English is abysmal. They cannot understand sophisticated algorithms or concepts and have a very hard time understanding basic concepts so they require a ton of hand holding and still get things wrong 3 and 4 times in a row. The project managers were not detail oriented and they never understood USA standards in my opinion and they tried fooling me many times into changing sprint tasks all the time and then removing tasks from previously agreed upon sprints to lessen their workload and demand payment. They told me always that things were “working” good enough even when they were broken. Their standards for what works is not per USA Standards in my opinion.
2) No QA – They claim to charge 20% more for QA but then they don’t do any real QA. They rely on me to do all the QA. For most sprints 80% of things never worked properly and then it was a big fight with them every time to fix things and because it took them 3 and 4 times to fix things properly, they kept fighting and basically asking me to deal with stuff that didn’t work. They always told me they would fix in the next sprint but then never would actually fix anything. All despite our contract stating that all fixes had to be done first before working on the next sprint.
3) Contractual Terms Were Meaningless - The contract I signed with them was very precise yet they never held to the contractual terms. They always kept trying to extract more money from me at every turn. When they had bugs to fix in a sprint every time they refused to finish the sprint and kept demanding payment without finishing and if you didn’t pay, they would hold you hostage by just not doing anything.
4) Sprint Task Deliverables Didn’t Work – Repeatedly about 60-70% of the sprint deliverables they would not even work on and tell me they completed it! Instantly they would send an invoice and they got upset every time I told them how bad their deliverables were.
5) CEO and CTO are unsophisticated – The CEO is Rupinder and CTO is Ganesh. Both are very unsophisticated business people as they refused to sign contract addendums. They said their legal team prevented it. That makes no sense. The CEO is a person in my perspective who is highly sensitive and if anything happens, he cannot even think about work. It took him 2 months just to setup a call and demo with me. No development happened the whole time. Everytime a family member of his had a sickness, he stopped working. The CO and CTO both were not sophisticated enough to read our contract and adhere to the terms.
6) Horrible Communication - Ganesh and RP and the PM’s are so childish that they all stopped communicating with me. They are like a cult and they don’t care about customers at all. The CEO buys these guys cars as a thank you so he gets their loyalty and they do whatever he says so if they say not to correspond with the customer, nobody will.
7) Deadlines & Late Penalties Agreed Upon Mean Nothing – I had very strict timelines and penalties for being late. They never once met a deadline and they never accepted the penalties that they agreed to in writing. This happened 3 times to me where they reneged on the penalties and they were YEARS late and never finished!
8) No Talent – Because of the pandemic, their developers have left them in droves because they can get hired by someone in another country for double or triple their salary and work from home. So they have really almost no developers there to work on projects and a result all their projects are suffering tremendously. This is another reason why they will just move your devs to another project where they can bully customers into paying them or else lose the developers.
Seasia Infotech is the reason why Indian Software development companies are considered horrible. They have all the worst things you could ever have in a development company. A company with a great idea will never get their projects off the ground with them.
Do yourself a favor and STAY AWAY!!!!
What you like about the company?
Nothing at all.
URLs of the App
They never finished anything so there are No URLS for apps they claimed they were creating.
Owner's reply
November 29, 2022
Having read the complete review and because of the fraud done by Mr. Sunil Wagle, we really feel that this is our moral duty to present the correct picture for everyone.
Wikireviews and Serendipity are two projects which Sunil claims to be owning. Both these applications have been developed in bits and pieces by different IT companies which Sunil contracts with one after the other. He will always go for fixed cost contracts and once the contract is signed, he will start adding more feedback items, changes and pre-existing issues to be done as part of the new contract. If there is a milestone defined and scheduled for one month, post-delivery of the milestone, he will take at least 2-3 months to get his additional feedbacks and changes incorporated without any additional cost. Any CR related discussion takes ages with him as he always expects that if contract is signed for A, B and C points, D & E are also be to covered as those are logical as per his assumption. He will give screen designs based on which estimates are done but once the cost is finalized, he will start changing the designs, adding new screens in the repository without even letting the team know.
Despite all this, we still managed to deliver quite a number of sprints and milestones. As we mentioned, each milestone is stretched to additional 2-3 months of feedback and changes implementation, post which he approves the milestone and processes the payments. In our case, after few milestones of work (approved, delivered and payments received), he asked us to deliver the codebase, database etc. once. Along with that he also asked to create detailed documentation for the codebase. We delivered codebase, database, documentation, and all the other information he asked for. Once he received that, he put a refund request for the payments made on already delivered milestones. After so many months of our efforts and hard-earned money, anything like this seriously looks like a fraud to us. Even after receiving all codebase and deliveries, he is now trying to get the money back maliciously. We got to know that he has done the same thing to other companies, such as Brainvire and EZOps, also in the past and is now again looking for new ones to play the same game. We really fail to understand that how people like these get the courage to play such dirty, immoral and unethical tricks. Even after making losses on the projects, we would still have supported him for any help needed from our side, but after such an experience, we really thought that everyone should be knowing about his unethical practices.
