Searching Solution For Activities Near By

Abstract: 

Our customer’s ambition is to fuel passions that nurture physically, mentally and creatively alive individuals. He decided to create application offers a comprehensive platform that helps user to search for the right activity that resonates with passions. Currently, it is Spread across Pune, but planned to reach out to major cities across in India soon. 

Client: 

Our Pune, India based customer started search engine to find activities nearby user’s location. Our customer wants to help people to find in his(er) passionate activity in nearby user location. 

Problem Statement: 

We were not involved in this product from inception and was not part of product conceptualization. When the customer came to us product was partially developed.
The following list of problems customer explained us, to help him in this product.

• Reskinning of existing modules for intuitive and attractive user interface components.

• Responsive UI support

• Elasticsearch based activity provider searching functionality, which was not giving proper result. Also, it is a heart and soul of the product.

• Revamp activity provider details module.

• Third party authentication support.

• Admin management console development

• Product optimization for performance

• Production environment setup

• SEO friendly URLs

Challenges & Limitations:

• Understand the customer needs design perspective and make him happy with the new application design.

• Mobile application support

Aspire’s Solution: 

Aspire provided expert resources to solve design and development problems in the existing product. 

• Designer provided a number of designs to the customer for the reskinning application. Customer chooses one out of provided design and at the end, he was very happy for new application design.

• Fixed issues in activity provider search functionality using elastic search.

• Application code refactoring to improve application performance.

• Successfully integrated Google and Facebook authentication.

• Added Bootstrap SCSS standard style to support responsive UI.

• Added Admin console support for easy to manage admin activities like., Provider management, user management etc.

• Cluster based production environment setup - automation integration. 

• Applied necessary changes in the application for SEO support.

Benefits Delivered:

• Initially, each page took more than 20 seconds to load contents, after code optimization we are able to achieve same in hardly 3-4 seconds.

• Able to keep the customer coming back to application after resolving an activity provider search result issues.

• After introducing new production     

• Due to the new intuitive user interface desktop users are increased 20%.

• After adding a responsive UI support, Mobile users tremendously increased by 85%.    

Technologies:

HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Bower, Gulp, Node(npm),   RequireJS, UglifyJS, minifyHtml, JSHint, BitBucket, Django, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch