From WordPress to technology partner.
We started with WordPress. Today we design, build and run demanding digital products for mid-sized and large companies.
Over the years the technologies and the kinds of projects have changed. What has not changed is that we take responsibility for the result and stay with the project after launch.
How we got here
2008
Community before company
Webikon grew out of the Slovak WordPress community: the wp.sk forum, the Slovak translation of WordPress and the first meetups. The people who later founded Webikon met while solving other people’s problems.
2009
The Webikon brand is born
Questions about WordPress kept coming, and Jano Bočínec and Peťo Nemčok decided to help full-time. The Webikon brand is born, along with the first webikon.sk website. It looked nothing like it does today.
2012
From a duo to a company
There are more projects than two people can handle. Webikon s.r.o. is founded, more people join the team and the first larger clients arrive. From the start we build on open source and on long-term work with clients. The same year we organise the first WordCamp Slovakia in Žilina.
2013–2016
Clients who stayed
Partnerships that continue to this day begin: Synergie and their HR platform, websites for Habitat for Humanity branches around the world, the Powerlogy online shop and, in 2016, HB Reavis, where a code review of the existing website grew into looking after the whole portfolio, including the intranet and Nivy Station.
2017
Beyond WordPress
We add backend frameworks and headless architecture to WordPress. Projects grow, and so do the demands on integrations. We stop doing only websites: web and mobile apps join the portfolio.
2020–2021
Apps for Across and the UN
For our long-standing client Across we build Across Connect in React Native, an app that runs on Android, iOS and the web from a single codebase. Next comes UN Sanctions App, an offline-first app for the United Nations. The project adds to our experience in mobile development and in international digital products.
2023
AI as another tool
AI becomes another tool we can build into digital products. We use it where it solves a specific problem or where its benefit can be measured. The same year, Webentor gets its name: our own way of building websites faster and with better control over the budget.
Today
A technology partner
Webikon is a technology partner for mid-sized and large companies. We help design, build, run and further develop digital products.
We take responsibility for the result. After launch, too.
We are part of the community.
We build our projects on open source, and through it we also help the developer community.
We contribute to open-source projects, organise and attend WordCamps and meetups, and share our experience with others in the field.
2012
WordCamp Slovakia, Žilina · lead organisers of the first edition
2013
WordCamp Europe, Leiden · attendees at the first edition
2016
WordCamp Europe, Vienna · co-organisers and volunteers
2017
WordCamp Brno · organiser of the first edition
2018
WordCamp Košice · organisers
2022
WordCamp Brno · volunteers
Partnerships that last to this day
Two partnerships from this story have their own case study, following them from the first website through years of further development.
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