Angry Creative turns two years old in September and it’s time to tell you what we’ve been up to. There’s been a bit of a lack of updates on the blog lately, so we’ve either been sitting on our hands or busy with other things. Or have we?
How has Angry Creative’s second year been?
Year two has been really fun, and challenging. We have seriously established ourselves as a serious partner to work with if you are going to do a WordPress venture. We have improved our processes and our tools to be able to make better and more reliable deliveries to our customers. We have worked much more clearly with support agreements for our customers where we can offer ongoing management for our customers.
Along with that, we have developed our tools in several fields that allow our customers to get a completely different quality of service delivered compared to many of our competitors. We have encountered most of the problems before and can build on that experience and have automated systems to help us do so.
What have been the biggest challenges?
The biggest challenge but also the biggest reward has been going from start-up mode to feeling more stable, both financially and in terms of craftsmanship. Constantly improving ourselves and making every change with enthusiasm has required a lot of time and energy from us, everyone has really worked hard.
In addition to the purely process and tool challenges, we have changed our image and made it clear that we are experts in WordPress, which may not always have been clear in our marketing material before.
We’ve also rolled out our much-anticipated employee incentive programme, where employees are given time to Open Source. When we started, we had the ambition to do such a thing, but the whole first year we had to go from opportunity to opportunity. Now it’s finally an integral part of what it means to work here!
So how has it been going?
It has gone well! We’ve recruited new staff, completed some big projects (1000h) and built confidence immensely. We were awarded Young Company of the Year in Norrköping. Once again we held a WordPress Meetup in Norrköping, which was crazy successful. And then we have done memecak.es, where we collect fun cakes that we eat in the office to celebrate launches 🙂
What’s happening this autumn?
In the autumn we will try to press the gas and drive full speed ahead. We now have all the elements to be able to create an Open-Source company that delivers what it promises, and preferably a little more.Here on the blog you will be able to read about our monitoring systems and how they work, about customer cases and a little more everyday observations from the office.