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The team also created a personal assistant system for a domestic robot.

Netguru formed a team of product designers working with IKEA and Volkswagen. In 2015, Netguru implemented a mobile app for a media marketplace Transterra Media, which allows news outlets to manage and publish pre-produced videos. At the time, its portfolio included a market research provider GlobalWebIndex, and a language-learning platform Babbel. In 2014, Netguru became a partner for Spree Commerce. Zygadlewicz exited Netguru, while Schmidt and Filipowski focused entirely on web applications for British, American, and German startups. In 2013, HumanWay was acquired by the recruitment house Grupa Pracuj. Focus on web development įrom 2012, Netguru has been developing applications and platforms solely in Ruby on Rails. The article’s punch line: 'Let's get to work, get rid of complexes, and create models with a global or at least pan-European potential'. Filipowski and Schmidt contributed the famed article on the internet website Antyweb, 'There Will Be No More 'Polish Equivalents'', about web services Allegro, Gadu-Gadu, and Nasza Klasa, as local copycats of EBay, ICQ, and, respectively. In July 2011, Filipowski, along with entrepreneurs Borys Musielak and Anna Walkowska, moved their businesses together into a mansion in Żoliborz, establishing the Reaktor, which evolved into the first networking hub in Poland, and the venue for the Warsaw startup scene. In September 2010, Zygadlewicz announced a first coworking space for startups and freelance developers in Warsaw.

Since September 2007, the Netguru has been documenting its portfolio and web development industry on an official blog. Beside functional development and community management, the company was specializing in consulting and market analysis. Netguru developed also their own microblogging social platform, a charity service, and a recruitment support tool HumanWay, awarded at startup competitions Seedcamp Warsaw and Aulery. Their first contracts were a Web 2.0 travel portal, for the media publishing corp Agora, and an employer relations portal for Bank Zachodni WBK.

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On May 8, 2008, Schmidt, Filipowski and Zygadlewicz registered their software development business, as Netguru.

Since 2007, through their own foundation Fundacja Polak 2.0, they also organized first BarCamp community meetings for innovation enthusiasts in Poland, along with further events: the International Startup Fair Democamp, the ShopCamp workshops, and the Hackfest. The three opened the first coworking space in Poland in a rented office in central Poznań, where they developed websites together. Netguru was founded in Poznań, Poland by Wiktor Schmidt (an automation and robotics student at the Poznań University of Technology), Jakub Filipowski (a web designer and philosophy student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), and Adam Zygadlewicz (an e-commerce entrepreneur), who met thanks to popularity of Filipowski's blog about the internet.

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