About Bad Dinosaur
Bad Dinosaur says it is an app design and development agency based in Edinburgh city centre, going for over 13 years and having helped launch over 100 digital products. Its about page says the work is done by an in-house team that is permanently employed in Scotland, with no outsourcing unless a client asks for it to speed delivery. It says it embeds in client businesses and stays until the client no longer needs it.
Its services are six. New product development builds web apps, mobile apps for iOS and Android, APIs and integrations. The page says builds use a minimum viable product method on Microsoft .NET technologies, take typically three to six months to reach market, and cover the release to the app stores. Vibe code to production takes a prototype a client has made with AI coding tools and turns it into a structured product. Delivery capacity takes whole work packages off a client’s backlog. Project rescue takes over a project built elsewhere. Clickable prototypes turn around in three to four weeks. Planning and strategy is the usual entry point, with a workshop. The site lists integrations with Stripe, Shopify, HubSpot, NHS services, Anthropic’s API and others.
The agency states how it charges but not what it charges. It says there is a single day rate for design, development, strategy and fractional technical director work alike, and that its own project software shows clients a live budget, sprint plans and issue tracking. The rate itself is not published, and the app development page says investment varies with size and that a rough figure usually comes early in a first conversation. Its contact form asks for a budget in bands from up to £10,000 to over £100,000.
Case studies include Budgerty, a property investment platform with calculators, a portal that helps members of a green tourism scheme prepare for assessment, and a configurator for a garden-room maker. The site names an Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce net zero shortlisting in 2024. It publishes no team size, and its team page lists staff by name.
Ask what the day rate is, how a fixed scope is priced against it, and who owns the code and hosting at the end.
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