Legacy modernization that keeps live operations running.
Mindrops re-platforms, refactors and re-architects aging systems to be secure, maintainable and cloud-ready — incrementally, so the operations that depend on them keep running.
A selection of the software Mindrops has designed and engineered for clients.
SaaS · Influencer Marketing
Activate by Bloglovin'
A dedicated onshore and offshore Mindrops team built, upgraded and maintained the platform with Agile delivery — campaign matching, messaging and real-time reporting.
Maintained for 4+ years, scaling to 130,000+ influencers and 100,000+ brands on a network serving 16M+ users a month.
Total post offices1,65,000The largest postal network in the world
Government · GovTech
India Post — Grievance Redressal
An AI-automated platform on Mindrops’ LazyMonkey foundation that categorises, prioritises, routes and auto-responds to every grievance, with one SLA-tracked record for central and regional teams.
Awarded via GeM (Nov 2025), it auto-triages thousands of grievances a day for a network of 1.5 lakh+ post offices.
Cafés in India50+outlets across India, served by the systems we builtBrewing since 1963
AI · Food & Beverage
BeanBot — The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
An embeddable AI chat assistant grounded in live catalogue and store data, with an “Order Now” action on every product and a no-code admin console for content and pricing.
Live across 50+ outlets in India, handling about 10,000 conversations a month and around 50 orders a day.
Mindrops re-platforms, refactors and re-architects aging systems to make them secure, maintainable and cloud-ready — without disrupting the business that depends on them. Each modernization is assessed, planned and executed incrementally, with a secure SDLC.
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Assessment & strategy
Map the system, risks and dependencies, then agree a phased, lowest-risk plan.
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Re-platform to cloud
Move workloads to AWS, Azure or GCP for scale, resilience and lower run-cost.
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Refactor & re-architect
Untangle and restructure code into maintainable, testable, modern services.
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Data migration
Migrate data safely, with validation, reconciliation and rehearsed cutover plans.
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API enablement
Wrap legacy systems in clean APIs so new software can build on them.
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Incremental rollout
Ship in stages with testing and fallback, so live services stay up.
Who legacy modernization is for
Systems only a few people understand
Applications with little documentation or test coverage, where every change is risky and the knowledge sits with a handful of staff.
Unsupported frameworks & servers
Software on end-of-life languages, frameworks or infrastructure that creates security exposure and blocks hosting changes.
Monoliths that slow every release
Platforms where a small change needs a full regression cycle and a risky deployment window.
Data that new software needs
Organisations that want new portals, apps or analytics to use data still locked inside an old system.
Why Mindrops for legacy modernization
Assessment before commitment
We start with a code, data and dependency assessment and recommend refactor, re-platform or rebuild for each component.
Strangler-pattern delivery
New services take over functions one at a time behind an API layer, so the old system is retired progressively instead of in one high-risk cutover.
Migrations that reconcile
Data moves with validation scripts, record counts and reconciliation reports, rehearsed before the live cutover.
Tests before changes
Where a legacy system has no tests, we first add characterisation tests around critical behaviour, so refactoring can be shown not to change outcomes.
Technologies we use
Cloud
AWS · Azure · GCP · Docker · Kubernetes
Backend
.NET · Java · Node.js · Python
Data
PostgreSQL · MSSQL · MySQL · Migration tooling
Integration
REST APIs · Strangler pattern · CI/CD
Client reviews
Extra capacity for software and cloud
A Mindrops team working alongside the client’s own engineers on software development and cloud-based projects, brought in to add reliable delivery capacity.
From the client’s review
“Mindrops handled complex requirements with ease and added value throughout the project.”
A mobile app, website and admin dashboard connecting patients in rural and semi-urban India with doctors, with video consultations, digital prescriptions and patient registration.
From the client’s review
“The UI/UX design process was collaborative and they kept the end user in mind throughout, which mattered a lot for a platform targeting rural users.”
Re-platforming, refactoring or re-architecting aging systems to make them secure, maintainable and cloud-ready — without disrupting the business that relies on them.
How are downtime and risk avoided?
Mindrops modernises incrementally (often a strangler approach), with testing, data validation and fallback plans, so live services keep running through the change.
Rebuild or refactor — which is right?
It depends on the system’s condition and value. Mindrops assesses and recommends the lowest-risk path that meets the goal — sometimes refactor, sometimes re-platform, sometimes rebuild.
Can Mindrops move a system to the cloud?
Yes. Re-platforming to AWS, Azure or GCP is core to this — see the managed cloud service.
Is the data retained?
Yes. Data is migrated with validation and reconciliation checks that are rehearsed before cutover, and the client keeps ownership of all of it.