acornsoft

Realtime solutions deliver information to the user, as soon as it is available. Experiences are only as good as they are timely. Imagine an auction platform where bids take minutes to appear, a ticket selling app with inaccurate seat-inventory levels, or a trading interface where market data is delayed by seconds.

These are not just minor hiccups. The result is lost opportunities, lost revenue and frustrated users. That's why Acornsoft designs and implements solutions where immediacy is a primary feature, and not a luxury.

Sound good? Drop us a line at hello@acornsoft.uk to setup an initial call.

Use cases

The world happens in realtime, so the benefits span many industries. Here are just a few scenarios where realtime can transform user experiences and heighten organisational efficiency.

• Real life social and conference companion apps ⇢
  Proximity-aware apps that react to their surroundings at in-person, physical events. The aim is to enhance a real experience with minimal added screentime, so that the attendee gets the most out of their day. We provide both the cloud infrastructure and the native apps for iOS and Android.
• Remote fleet diagnostics and supervision ⇢
  Live connections to vehicles, allowing operators to issue control commands, pinpoint precise GPS locations of assets and monitor operational status such as battery levels and OBD error codes for pre-emptive intervention. When higher bandwidth is available, dashcam video streams can be automatically analysed to monitor safety and status.
• Trading desktops ⇢
  Surfacing low latency market data, windowed aggregates, order books, and instant price comparisons. We know traders ❤️ Microsoft Excel, so can provide streams that can be referenced in existing models, with nothing more than a simple formula.

Approach

We ask questions, talk openly, learn about your domain, and collaborate both in-person (we're based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and remotely.

Our aim is to build malleable solutions that allow for experimentation, observation, and adaptation. Nothing is set in stone; it's called software, after all.

With over 25 years of software engineering experience gained in academia, startups, trading firms, and publicly traded names like Sage and Trustpilot, Acornsoft delivers solutions that take root and grow.
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Tech

We provide the backend infrastructure as well as user-facing applications for desktop, tablet and mobile. We primarily develop infrastructure in go and Java. Sometimes other languages like C++ and C# are used if they are a fit.

User-facing apps are built natively for iOS and Android, or with Flutter. For deployment, we have extensive experience with a variety of services on AWS and GCP as well as k8s. Acornsoft solutions can run on your existing stack, in other words. No existing infra? We can advise upon the the simplest and most economical solution.

Our streamlined technology choices allow us to leverage proven tools that we know deeply, and we know work well for our partners.