Pura is a smart home fragrance air diffuser that allows you to control the scent of your home from your phone.
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- Scott Rushforth CTO @ Pura
1. Client Overview
Project description: Pura is a smart home fragrance air diffuser that allows you to control the scent of your home from your phone.
Service line:
- IoT Development
- Quality assurance
2. The Challenge
- Context of the business problem:
- the system already runs, but there are bugs, errors needs fixing
- in stable phase, but need optimizing
- Pain points (e.g., lack of engineers, time constraints, performance issues): timeline conflict
- cost of infra (AWS) is high
- need to build a IoT solution (interacting to control the fragrance) as alternative to Amazon to switch gradually
3. Spartan’s Solution
- Team composition: 5-6 engineers
- Approach (tech stack, processes, integrations)
- IoT Development
- Quality assurance
- Key deliverables:
- Support building iOs
- Collaboration style (e.g., async daily standups, tight founder-engineer loop): work with global team (Brazil, VN, EU)
- Spartan support fixing bugs, not interfering the core system. The control right is still in client’s hand.
- Spartan provide each rationale for each approach to fix the versions/ build from scratch
- proactiveness
4. The Outcome
- MVP shipped in X weeks
- % faster time to market
- Increased user retention/engagement
- Helped them raise funding
- Tech debt reduction / scalability improvements
