We dedicate our app developers to only a handful of engagements a year. This keeps us focused on solving your app development challenges—not on juggling clients. This type of attention makes Roket an easy choice as a long-term app development agency partner.
“their dedication and talent were exceptional.”
Roket worked along-side PJ's internal teams to led app design and app development.
For over 7 years, Roket built and managed app design and app development teams for Google.
Roket designed, developed, and launch the end-to-end customer experience at CES.
When we understand your business, the more value we add during app development. In this spirit, our app creation process is client-inclusive to help extract meaningful data, clearly map a path to success. And with our clear communication, you’ll never have to guess what’s next.
“...communication remained faultless throughout...”
Our planning removes assumptions and sets us up for mutual success, working closely with our partners.
We untangle the big, hairy messes that prevent an effortless UX and get yours, and your users, buy-in.
Using agile development, we ensure efficient delivery and continuous improvement of code.
Post-launch we can continue delivering value by applying our iterative cycle of “Create, Measure, Learn.”
Our Pittsburgh team is empowered to take charge. We speak up. We push forward. That’s how problems are solved and how your business succeeds. This means, the promises you make to your team, board members, or customers are kept.
“Roket attacked our problems with ownership.”
We’ve worked as founders, app development consultants, or team members in hundreds of startups at every stage of growth.
Roket founders leads each app development engagement. This ensures efficiency, mitigates issues, and improves outcomes.
We use business metrics, analytics, and user feedback to validate our app development to ensure we deliver value to our clients.
Good app development creates a competitive advantage. Lean on Roket’s expertise to solve business challenges.
For nearly 12 years, our 2 founders have led each Pittsburgh app development agency engagement: no handoffs, no layers of management, and no frustrating games of telephone. They are transparent and honest partners who deliver on our mission to design experiences people love.
Balancing app design and app development, Alex's hybrid skillset gives Roket’s work a level of seldom-seen thoughtfulness and efficiency during the app creation process.
With a belief that empathy is drives smart user experiences and great teams, David has spent 20 years building products, brands, and high-performing teams.
TERRAWISE
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Roket delivered a brand and intuitive, user-centered mobile app design that integrates with IoT hardware to provide busy farm owners with critical data and insights about field irrigation and health.
TABS
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“We are extremely happy with Roket's performance and the final product.”
Roket designed and launched an all-in-one, family-focused smart home monitoring and locator solution, complete with app design and app development, named Tabs.
We focused on creating a frictionless experience for our customers—from discovery, to purchase, to setup, to everyday use of the IoT app products.
PJ DICK
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“ They are a genuine part of our team. ”
Roket worked with Pittsburgh-based PJ Dick to identify, design, and develop a custom construction app design system that resolved decades old usability issues and improved app development efficiency.
Roket applied our app design system UX standards and UI components to dozens of applications. The work created a cohesive user experience across the corporation and aids each new app development.
LINDY
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We designed, developed, and maintained this business-critical application with an impressive uptime. Over the years, we expanded the functionality to support graphing, exportable reports, saved searches—and the largest addition—the inclusion of customer-direct web and mobile ordering.
PJ DICK
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PJ Dick’s Pittsburgh construction ERP app required a ground-up user experience overhaul to resolve decades-old usability and technical limitations. We led UX app design and front-end development for this multi-year effort which reached our goals of technology modernization, UX unification, and user task simplification.
PJ DICK
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Roket re-imagined PJ Dick’s construction mapping software to better meet the needs of its users and integrate our latest UX design system updates. While integrating new interactive features, intuitive navigation, and data views we worked to reduce user experience complexity of its current features though careful app development.
ASKME.HEARME
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“They created an app and brand that truly resonates with its audience.”
In partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, AskMe.HearMe was a research project to educate, engage, and connect young people to mental health and wellness information and services by addressing mental health literacy though the creation of a responsive web app.
360FLY
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“Thanks to Roket’s approach, we launched successfully with a holistic look and feel”
Roket worked closely with 360fly’s Pittsburgh-based marketing, product, engineering, and management teams to architect, design, and develop the apps that accompanied the launch of their revolutionary 360-degree action camera.
FORBES FUNDS
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“They really listen and their work is exceptional.”
UpPrize is a purpose-driven entrepreneurial competition developed in partnership with BNY Mellon, The Forbes Funds, and Roket. Roket was responsible for the naming and identity of the competition as well as the open innovation app that managed the competition.
BACK'D
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“They delivered a crisp and clean user experience.”
Need a quick working prototype? A full market-ready app? Or just a few extra app development teammates? We can tackle any challenge. Are you ready to chat? Choose a time here.
You’ve got the idea—we’ll get it launched. We take you from concept to a market-ready web app in just 90 days. It’s perfect for first-time founders, startups or innovation teams who want expert app creation without hiring in-house. Our battle-tested team handles every step: planning, branding, app design, app development, and launch.
Are you fundraising or kicking the tires on an idea? Our web and mobile functional prototypes are a fast, focused 30-day engagement to bring your vision to life as a clickable, testable prototype. Whether you already have wireframes or need help starting from scratch, this is how you validate your idea before you commit to full software development.
This is for founders and teams who need more than a pretty homepage—they need a website and brand designed to do work. Our Purpose-Built websites and brands engagement delivers a high-performing, custom-built website and a thoughtful brand identity—everything you need to launch with clarity, confidence, and conversion in mind.
Hit your deadlines. Our rapid-response UI design sprint and front-end delivery service is built for product teams under pressure. We drop in fast to transform your UI and get it implementation-ready with highly-polished and speedy output that makes your app (and your team) feel great.
Our team has spent decades building products as app designers, app developers, and innovators. Combining that experience with our leadership roles as business owners and managers, we know the challenges of building and shipping the best product possible—because we've done it. We are app experts—hiring app experts.
Tell us about your needs and Alex or David will respond (almost) immediately. Or you can quickly schedule a chat now.
