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Case study · Rotterdam, Netherlands · Health tech

Helped Tinybots, maker of the Tessa care robot, ship more every quarter.

Extend your team

How did InApps help Tinybots?

Tinybots, now Tessa.Care, is a health tech company in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Its Tessa care robot talks people with dementia through their day and is used by more than 150 care organisations. Since May 2024, InApps, a software company in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has added engineers to its team who build the mobile app's front and back end and new microservices in Flutter and Node.js, and Tinybots now completes more projects each quarter.

Tinybots logo Rotterdam, Netherlands
Industry
Health Tech IoT
Services
Mobile App Development Backend & Microservices
Engagement model
IT Staff Augmentation
Main technologies
Flutter Node.js React

About Tinybots

Tinybots, renamed Tessa.Care, builds Tessa, a social care robot developed with and for people with cognitive impairments such as dementia. Tessa reminds, motivates and guides them through the day by voice, so they stay independent at home for longer. More than 150 care organisations use it every day.

The challenge

Tessa runs on more than the robot: an app that carers and families use to set its reminders, and the services behind it. As more care organisations took Tessa on, Tinybots needed more engineers on that software, quickly, without slowing the projects already in flight.

For someone with dementia, a reminder that does not arrive is a missed meal.

The solution

Since May 2024 we have added engineers to Tinybots' own team, and found new developers quickly whenever the work grew. They build the mobile app's front end and back end in Flutter and Node.js and create new microservices for the platform behind Tessa. They work as part of Tinybots' team, over email, messaging and online meetings, reply fast and take feedback, so each project keeps moving and the next one can start sooner.

How we extend teams
2 to 5 engineers
  • Flutter mobile engineers
  • Node.js backend engineers
  • Added as the work grows
  • Inside Tinybots' own team

The stack

Flutter Node.js React
Tessa, the Tinybots care robot: a wooden egg-shaped body in a navy felt jacket with a yellow scarf and bow tie, with a white flowering plant on top

The outcome

More engineering capacity, without slowing Tessa down.

  • More projects completed each quarter, per the client's verified review.
  • A stable, cross-device platform behind Tessa's rollout.
  • Every key milestone met, with high code quality.
  • A bigger contract, as Tessa's adoption grew.
5.0/5 Clutch, for quality, schedule and cost Visit tessa.care

Source: verified Clutch review and InApps project records; product photo from tessa.care.

Questions about this project

InApps added engineers to Tinybots, the Rotterdam company behind the Tessa care robot, now called Tessa.Care. Since May 2024, InApps, a software company in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has built the front and back end of its mobile app and new microservices in Flutter and Node.js, and Tinybots completes more projects each quarter.
InApps engineers join the client's own team and work on its backlog, with two to five people on Tinybots' work. When the work grows, InApps finds new developers quickly, and the team stays in touch by email, messaging apps and online meetings.
5.0 out of 5 for quality, schedule, cost and willingness to refer, in a verified Clutch review from August 2025. The review notes that the client completes more projects each quarter, and that InApps responds promptly and welcomes feedback.
Yes. Vietnam is six hours ahead of the Netherlands, five in European summer time, so the Dutch morning is the Vietnamese afternoon. InApps engineers have worked inside Tinybots' Rotterdam team since May 2024, and Tinybots rated the schedule 5.0 on Clutch.
Engineers join your team and your tools, and the team grows or shrinks with the work. That is our IT staff augmentation service. For a whole team that InApps runs, see the dedicated development team; for a product built end to end, custom software development.

Need engineers who can join your product team? Extend it the way Tinybots did.

4.9 / 5 across 39 verified reviews on Clutch

InApps engineers working together in the Ho Chi Minh City office