Smart Makeover for a Location-Based Social Web App
The client
RateMyArea is a platform for finding and sharing opinions about places in your own neighbourhood — what is good, and what is not so good, nearby.
It sells vouchers on local goods and services, works with businesses of many kinds, and is among the largest platforms of its type in Ireland.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
A location-based social site lives or dies on how easily people can add to it and how much they trust what they find.
Challenge 01Designed and supported
The platform needed designing and then ongoing support, not a launch and a handover.
Challenge 02Adding a place, easily
Users had to be able to add locations and events without friction, or the content stops arriving.
Challenge 03Opinions worth reading
Comments, reviews and rankings had to work for every location and every event on the site.
What we did
A local review platform, upgraded and kept running
Netguru helped upgrade and extend the web app, and continues on its maintenance.
Full-stack, end to end
A complete development team covered the work rather than a specialism at a time.
Development, PM and QA
Product development, project management and quality assurance all ran inside the same engagement.
Search, then say something
The platform lets users search for locations or events and leave a review of them, which is the whole loop.
Discovery for local trade
Local shops and services get a route to being found and rated, alongside vouchers for local goods and services.
Client testimonial
Netguru are a first class web development team and I couldn't recommend them highly enough. I've worked with Netguru on many projects now and have always found them to be professional, responsive and competent. Their ability to think outside the box in tandem with their expert knowledge of the web and the latest development trends, makes Netguru an extremely valuable component of any web project and one we were very pleased to have working on RateMyArea.
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