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Description
Lostium Project develops applications and digital tools to make life easier for citizens and solve specific problems of the companies that hire their services. In their founder´s words, "after more than 10 years developing technological solutions in diverse sectors (such as financial, telecommunications or retail), we decided to create Lostium Project to manage the full life cycle of the projects".
The diversity of roles facilitates the integral execution of their projects: from the conceptualization and design to the development, the elaboration of the copy or the illustrations. Part of their work is also dedicated to the development of their own projects, experimenting with technology: they use open source software, reuse public information (open data) and integrate maps and positioning technologies (global and proximity), among other issues. In addition, they like to explore the social use of technology through collaborative projects, creating communities, integrating social networks, etc.
Foundation year
Year of company creation
2011
Headquarters
Headquarters
Madrid
Offices
Offices in
Madrid
Employees
1-10 employees
Level of internalization
Level of internalization
Spain
Main products and services
Main products and services
Some of its main projects are:
- Tuitrafico: Their first project as reusers was Tuitrafico, currently discontinued. Tuitrafico offered traffic information through Twitter, as well as price information for gas stations in Spain, traffic cameras, meteorological data, etc.
- Mercamad: This is the mobile app for the municipal markets of Madrid - they obtain information on the 46 markets and more than 2000 stands in the city from Madrid open data portal-. This information is complemented with photographs, news, events, etc.
- Mapcesible: Their next project is an app that maps accessible places in Spain. It incorporates different datasets related to accessible places such as beaches, monuments, public places, etc.
Key to success
Key to success
Generally, they are responsible for the integral execution of the project: from the conceptualization of the idea and the design, to the development and implementation. They are also specialists in WordPress, the engine that they use as a content manager for all their projects, whether they are mobile apps or complex backends to manage applications. Together with the fact that they maintain a small and agile structure, all this factors allows them to execute projects quickly, compared to other companies or big consultancies. "This structure of "almost command" makes big companies come to us to search solutions to their problems" they comment.
Growth
Growth
As they indicate, "we are a small studio and we want to maintain a reduced structure in order to be agile, so we do not seek growth in the number of employees, but in recent years we have received requests from larger clients that have allowed us to duplicate the volume of business thanks to the realization of more complex projects and greater exposure ".
Future plans
Future plans
"We would love to develop our own product, but the work for clients leaves us less time for this type of internal projects. In our projects, we usually look for social or citizen services, but we do not dismiss launching a project in the future with a clearly commercial purpose".
Data used
Open data used
Private + Public (traffic incidents, gas stations in Spain, municipal markets, beaches locations, etc.)
Links to data sources
Clients
Customers
From SMEs to large companies or administrations, such as Fundación Telefónica, AECID, Madrid City Council, Acttiv (tourist entertainment company), Abrisud (focus on pool covers) or Fuentetaja (creative writing workshops).
Marketing model
Marketing model
They provide free services, directly.
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