From the idea to the app in the Store. And all in GeneXus.
This year has been characterized as the year of the inception workshops. We realized that the client often has the idea but doesn’t know exactly how to bring it down to earth. This is the case of Pablo, Alfonso and Sara, 3 siblings and partners of San Nicolás Transporte, a family business with innovative drive that created PQuick, an app for hiring heavy loads that we developed all in GeneXus, Backend and Frontend.
CHALLENGE:
To create a technological solution for the contracting of heavy load transportation. Heavy loads should be understood as anything that cannot be transported in a car. For that the challenge was in:
1. Create a technological solution from scratch, starting from an idea, together with the San Nicolás team.
2. Integrate the entire San Nicolás team to align efforts and expectations and make them feel involved in the creation of a joint product.
3. Identify the possible problems related to the world of heavy cargo moving, regulations, insurance, invoicing, etc.
4. Downstream brainstorming to a realizable product defined by the first version to be released to the public, the MVP.
5. Sizing the hours needed to reach the development of the first version, the MVP.
And all this in the midst of the COVID pandemic.
SOLUTION:
1. We carry out inception workshops with the San Nicolás team so that the product contemplates the viewpoint of all the professionals involved.
2. Key functionalities were identified for the product to have a differential marking, e.g. real-time location tracking, automated notifications of the different stages of cargo delivery, etc.
3. Technological solution based on GeneXus (both backend and frontend, AWS and its products, electronic invoicing and GIS (geographic information system) technology.
> GeneXus Frontend
> GeneXus Backend
> iOS + Android
DGI > DGI > eTicket + eInvoice
> AWS SES, Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon RDS, AWS Lambda, AWS Organizations, AWS VPN, Amazon API Gateway
> Google Maps API
> Wazze + Google Maps + Maps iOS
> AWS Cloud
> GAM GeneXus Security
> Mercado Pago
RESULTS:
1. An MVP version was achieved in 6 months starting from the first day of intent to the first release of PQuick.
2. Excellent first ratings. Thanks to an intensive internal testing process, bugs that could damage the user’s perception of the product were avoided in PQuick’s first release. The first (and key) user reviews in the different Stores have been excellent, 4.8 on iOS and 4.9 on Google Play.
3. 100% efficiency in the delivery of new functionalities post MVP. After the first delivery of the minimum viable version, we started to work in Scrum and Time & Materials mode, this system has allowed us to move forward with firm and validated steps.
This success story makes us very proud, in BigCheese Portfolio I invite you to see more of our success stories.
And of course, if you need to size your idea, contact us.
