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Recognition as an outstanding application company

The Manifest Names Flatline Agency Among Amsterdam’s Most Reviewed App Development Companies We’re honored to say that Flatline Agency is recognized as one of the most reviewed App development companies on The Manifest. Following the award as the most-reviewed software development company, we won this in App development category. Clutch ranks businesses according to their...

Last updated: 10 Nov 2022

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The Manifest Names Flatline Agency Among Amsterdam’s Most Reviewed App Development Companies

We’re honored to say that Flatline Agency is recognized as one of the most reviewed App development companies on The Manifest. Following the award as the most-reviewed software development company, we won this in App development category.

Clutch ranks businesses according to their client reviews, market presence, and capacity to provide services. We currently rank among the best App development companies in Amsterdam and the rest of the world.

We at Flatline Agency would like to thank each and every one of our clients for taking the time to post reviews on Clutch. We’re excited to hold onto our position as the top App development firm in Amsterdam for a very long time.

Why Flatline Agency?

Flatline Agency was established in 2019 to deliver high-quality work fast while leveraging the newest and best techniques available. We have worked with Fortune 500 companies, SMEs, the Dutch government, and non-profit organizations throughout the years.

Our ‘unique selling point’ is that we begin where every other agency stops. We deliver high-quality work, fast – while leveraging the newest and best techniques available. Of course, all our products are built to scale out of the box – future-proof as to the standard.

We code and improve everything from Custom platforms, progressive web apps, apps, websites, SAAS, and AI / Deep learning applications in Python, NodeJS, WordPress (WooCommerce), Shopify, React (Native/Gatsby) & Flutter.

That combination of speed and craftsmanship is what you’ll find across Flatline Agency as a whole, not just in our app development work.

Our work cases

We already achieved outstanding work for our clients. Let us introduce some cases to show how we got to be awarded as one of the most-viewed App development companies.

https://www.flatlineagency.com/cases/just-eat-takeaway/

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