BlackBall Software is a software development company specializing in startups

Unlike regular development work, startups have some pretty unique requirements - they're ambitious, original and they're in a hurry. They also need support translating their software needs into systems that work with limited budgets but can grow long term.

We love startups. For two reasons - firstly, startups are exciting. They’re creating the next-generation of technology - how cool is that?. Secondly, we've been there. We know what it's like to be a startup because we always have exciting businesses growing ourselves (currently in development are stringsof.me and Rate-It).

Because we’ve both specialized in startups and personally experienced the process, we understand the stress and passion, but can provide a tempered hand in analyzing your software requirements and getting you to market quickly with a quality, concise and expandable product.

How we can help your startup

BlackBall Software offers its expertise to businesses looking for high-end custom-made software applications.

1. High quality & future-proofed software

We've built dozens of startups, so we know what we're doing and we know how to do it quickly. For the business owner, this means you can concentrate on growing your business without worrying about the software keeping up. For the geeks, this means:

• built-in unit testing
• 100% abstraction of service and data layers using POCO objects
• integrated caching to boost performance
• common toolset such as (these days) ASP.Net and ASP.Net MVC, C#, Sql Server, jQuery, HTML5 CSS3
• Dependency Injection & Inversion of Control

2. Design & Consultancy

Good software is more than just a flash colour scheme and graphics, and a solid foundation to your software project is analogous to the foundation of your house. From database design to automated testing and switchable business logic, BlackBall uses the latest technologies and methodologies to design a solid architecture for a lasting project.

3. Perhaps you just need advice

Software can be confusing and overwhelming. The industry is full of jargon and people toting various hot new technologies. But we love it and we love talking about it, so if you have questions or maybe just a gem of an idea, give us a call and we'll point you in the right direction.

Recent Work

Please click on the links below for more details about our recent work.

stringsof.me

stringsof.me uses MVC and AJAX to provide a richly interactive and whimsical social media site for our customers.

Rate-It

Rate-It uses cutting edge technologies such as Facebook integration and increased search-engine rankings to increase word-of-mouth marketing and enhance the integrity of your products or services.

FPP

FPP are the largest specialist supplier in New Zealand of quality American brands for performance engines. BlackBall developed a custom-made CMS allowing online ordering and CMS.

Knowhere

Knowhere is New Zealand's premier location-based service provider, enabling companies to quickly and cheaply leverage location-based technologies into their existing business processes.

ALLTEAMS

ALLTEAMS provides a full CMS website, fundraising and management tools to sports clubs around New Zealand.