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On-Demand Dog Walking Marketplace, MadPaws

Description

MadPaws is an on-demand dog walking marketplace that was created for pet owners and pet sitters. It’s a marketplace with all sorts of pet services, from dog walking  to pet day care. The app allows you to find a pet sitter with just one click. Whether you’re planning an overseas trip, a weekend break, or an overnight getaway, your Mad Paws Pet Sitter will care for your furry friend while you’re away.

Or if you’re interested in knowing how to become a certified Pet Sitter, you could ‌create a Pet Sitting profile, which will allow you to offer Pet House Sitting, Dog Boarding, Dog Walking, Pet Day Care, and many other services.
As a Pet Sitting professional, you will choose which services you offer. You can also decide whether you want to care for pets in your home or the pet’s home.

Challenge

A2 Design took over the project when it was in bad shape. Back in 2014, the previous development team had started building the project using Laravel 4, which quickly became outdated.

It was too resource intensive to maintain the project because of the outdated framework.

As MadPaws forged ahead, website updates were required: new features, integration with different services, etc.

At one point, it became obvious that the process of achieving the required functionality with the technologies on which the platform had been built was not efficient.

The main challenges identified by the MadPaws team were:

  •  Outdated technology (Laravel 4)
  •  The original development team’s slow responsiveness to change requests
  •  Poor website performance (slow page loading speed, slow search)

Having identified a Framework Upgrade as the main objective, the MadPaws team reached out to A2 Design for assistance.

Solutions

Technology stack upgrade has helped to transform the platform and to achieve a better site performance.

Impact

The A2 Design Team has achieved the following goals while working on the project:

  • Technology stack upgrade:

Using the Ionic Framework for mobile apps, which is one of the top choices for cross-platform application development.

Enabled the product owner to manage different areas of the app, e.g admin could send notifications to users, download system reports, generate promo codes etc.

  • Better site performance achieved in the face of the increasing number of registered users and bookings made through the marketplace.
  • Timely delivery of technical solutions aimed to support new MadPaws partnerships.
  • Over 300 000 registered pets
  • Over 20 000 active pet sitters
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