Some of our customers know that we have a 4-year-old professional services company, called Quality Humans, Inc. (QHI).

QHI works with Rails clients large and small, from San Francisco to Nashville. We get to work with some of the coolest Rails technology and some of the brightest Rails people, so we’re in a good position to offer all sorts of professional services, from remote development by US developers, to on-site consulting, to employee recruiting and training.

Robert Krohn and Greg Spurrier are co-founders of My Digital Life in Palo Alto, CA. We’re helping with on-site architecture consulting (Tom), remote development (Don in Portland), and employee recruiting for their Palo Alto office.

Robert and Greg were kind enough to give a video testimonial about their work with us: Quality Humans, Inc. – Videos.

Thank you, Robert and Greg! Here’s to smooth sailing with My Digital Life!

I spent 4 days this week in San Francisco and the general area. Fun stuff, lots of people visited, etc. Existing customers and potential new ones. When not meeting someone local, I was video chatting with someone elsewhere, such as the Wall Street guy who’s now in Paris, putting together a startup to target Latin American markets.

One of the common themes that came up 2-3 times was the perspective of Engine Yard as low cost payroll for our customer. In other words, the startup in Paris wants to devote its time and money to other things, and they don’t want to have a payroll that’s too big. Engine Yard is therefore a means to hand off all that is app deployment and infrastructure maintenance, which basically means people + stuff. The people are the really expensive part, especially over long periods of time.

The more we chat with customers, the more we realize that an important part of what we’re offering is access to and support by some of the best people around for a tiny fraction of what they’d cost to have on payroll. We’ve always known that great service/support would be important, but I hadn’t heard it expressed as “cheap payroll”, as one guy said.

We’re happy to be your cheap payroll :-).