Our Committment
At DreamWalk we aim to be everything the typical Australian app development company is not. For example, we pride ourselves on our ethical and transparent app development process and operate by a unique Ethical App Development Charter. Whether you need an Android, web or iPhone app developer, working with DreamWalk you can be assured of the following:
Transparency
Developing an app is an expensive process. We understand that you are spending precious, hard-earned money on your app. Therefor, we’ll make sure you always know exactly where every dollar is going. It’s understandable that you want to be kept in the loop, so we do the following to ensure maximum transparency:
- Use plain English in our communications, not tech jargon.
- All quotes and invoices will be clearly itemised.
- You’ll receive regular scheduled progress updates.
- We’ll setup a server for your project rather than using our own.
- You’ll receive all source code with every payment milestone.
- If you want to drop in to see how your app is looking, just give us a call.
Charity Support
We donate five percent of all profits to charitable organisations we believe in. As a DreamWalk client, you’ll get to choose which charity your app project supports. Furthermore, you’ll receive updates whenever funds are contributed so you can share in the joys of giving to a good cause. As part of our Ethical App Development charter we are currently offering support to these amazing organisations:
Edgar's Mission
https://www.edgarsmission.org.au/
Edgar’s Mission is a not for profit sanctuary for rescued farmed animals. The mission seeks to create a humane and just world for humans and non-humans.
ygap
ygap is an International not-for-profit with an innovative approach to poverty alleviation. We back impact entrepreneurs – or ‘local leaders’ – with solutions to local problems in some of the world’s toughest communities.
Second Bite
Second Bite exists to provide access to fresh, nutritious food for people in need across Australia. We do this by stopping good food from going to waste. We rescue edible, nutritious food that was heading for landfill and give it to people in need, free of charge.
Local App Development in Melbourne
Few Australian app development companies actually do much of the development work in-house. Most will ship your project off to third-party developers in India, Ukrain or elsewhere. While this approach may have some small, short-term cost benefits, the results in the long run can be disasterous. We have seen it time and time again. Code that is rushed, corners cut, budget blow-outs (even on supposedly fixed-price projects), source code held to ransom, unresponsive developers, no thought put into architecture or user experience. The list goes on.
At DreamWalk app development Melbourne, we do all development work here in our CBD studio. This way we can control the quality, time-frames and the working conditions of our programmers. It also means more jobs for locals and that your money stays in your community. We believe that by definition, it is impossible to provide an ethical app development service that cares about its local community and customers while shipping work to offshore sweatshops.
Social Impact
Our ultimate mission is to make the world a better place. With this goal in mind, DreamWalk’s leadership team volunteer their time to mentor students and social impact startups. This is done through ygap’s First Gens program, Study Melbourne’s Live Projects program and various private mentorship and guest speaking engagements.
iDibs - Mentoring through ygap
DreamWalk founder Joseph Russell mentors startups through ygap, includiong the team from iDibs, who were finalists in 2018’s ygap First Gens program annd were later acquired by Drake International..
Study Melbourne Live Projects
https://www.studymelbourne.vic.gov.au
Through Study Melbourne’s Live Projects program DreamWalk’s Joseph Russell and PTVs Leanne Garbutt mentored this group of international students in 2018.
Yarra Valley Grammar - Guest Judging
DreamWalk directors Joseph Russell and Karl Graf were honoured to be guest judges at Yarra Valley Grammar’s digipreneurs app pitch day.
Ethical Banking
Making sure our money is invested ethically and responsibly is extremely important to us. For this reason we bank with Bendigo Bank and our employees superannuation is invested with Australian Ethical Super. Some of the benefits of banking with these organisations are as follows:
- Bendigo Community Bank branches are locally owned and operated and the company invests 80% of profits back into local communities.
- Bendigo Bank (BB) doesn’t fund fossil fuel companies.
- BB have partnered with Community Aid Abroad’s Ethical Investment Trust to provide ethical account options.
- Australian Ethical Super (AES) only invest in ethical industries such as clean energy, sustainable products, health, education and innovation.
- AES doesn’t invest in companies involved in poor treatment of asylum seekers, or companies that exploit workers.
