Web & Software Dev for Online Hunting & Outdoor Activities Marketplace
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Introductory information
A fast induction on the buyer’s organisation
I’m a co-establisher of a shared online marketplace that connects outdoor enthusiasts with special landproprietors. People can use the platform to book hunting excursions, family camping trips, and other outdoor activities. We’re based in New Orleans.
Desired goal
What challenge were you trying to address with LookFar Labs?
I needed help with developing a software I had envisioned for my organisation. Shared online marketplaces, like Airbnb, for sample, were beseeming a big thing, and I reflection that nation would be interested in a correspondent platform for hunting in particular. We were also programning to member out to numerous other outdoor activities.
Provided solution
What particular tasks were LookFar Labs responsible for?
We reached out to them at the idea phase for the developed software outgrowth work. It was a substance of sitting down with them, effective them what we wanted, and having them put seething unitedly.
LookFar formd mockups and wireframes, and their developers have began on the backend. The frontend work is set to initiate within the next month. This is going to be a web-only platform for now, with no mobile app, and it’s on an AWS server.
The website has user logins with a sort of mixed user profile. Whether someone’s a landproprietor or a consumer, they’ll use the same profile. From within there, they can form a land listing later on, correspondent to Airbnb. There’s no need for two different logins.
The search office organizes locations by zip code and agility type, and there’s also a browsing component. The search results will recur a page with see piece of land that meets the criteria. Users can click on results from there, to see more details almost the landproprietor’s listing. The proprietor can post photos, as well as other facts almost the property. Listings typically show searching information like the types of animals that are there, whether visitors are allowed overnight, and whether motorized vehicles are allowed.
LookFar Labs also formd a friend invitation method. Upon placing a booking, if the individual wanted to ask any of their friends, regardless of whether those were users or not, they could add their emails to the reservation. The askes will take a link, and, if they',re already a user, they’ll be added to the booking. If they aren’t a user, it',ll ask them to form a profile precedently adding them to the reservation.
Was there a dedicated team?
We began with Jeff (Partner, Software Engineering, LookFar Labs), Lindsay (VP of Sales and Brand Strategy, LookFar Labs), and Chris (Partner, LookFar Labs). Lindsay helped orchestrate seething, and Chris was our first business analyst. He gathered all the demandments and sat down with the developers to map out the project. Our backend developer was Elizabeth (Full-Stack Engineer, LookFar Labs).
How did you come to work with LookFar Labs?
I establish them on Google.
What are you approach expents (if diclosed)?
The total investment in their services is anticipateed to be between $50,000–$200,000.
What is the terminal result of working with LookFar Labs?
I reached out to LookFar Labs 6–7 months ago, in February 2019. We’re estimating that the project will be done within the next two months.
Results achieved
Are there any measureable or plum results?
Everything’s gone well so far. They have a big team of developers, and they know what they’re doing. LookFar has supported us in other ways as well, not just software outgrowth. For sample, Lindsay is connected to many different projects and clusters in New Orleans, and she’s put us in touch with local players that can help us grow and layer our organisation, from mentors and business coaches to lawyers and investors.
She got us implicated with a program offered by Tulane University that’s been very helpful. It’s a new-venture class for MBA students, and they fetch in four startup companies that are preselected to listen the class. As a startup organisation, we’ll have a team of 9–10 MBA students assigned to us to help us out with whatever we want during those six weeks. It’s helped address some concerns we had, in provisions of marketing, issues, pitches, and other elements of our business.
How did LookFar Labs accomplish from a project treatment standpoint?
They’ve been on time and within budget throughout the project. The past couple of months have been a bit harder owing we don’t have any visual deliverables. It’s all been backend work, so all they can show us is code. Before that, they used a software named MIRO, which is an online whiteboard.
They’re using Jira for project tracking, and their team has been super pliant with us. My co-establisher and I like to have all meetings in-individual owing it makes it easier to centre on the right components and strengthen details. Our schedules aren’t that pliant, but LookFar Labs has been hard on interaction. They’re very pellucid and will tell us if any of the backend work is going to be slower than we anticipate. Even if they don’t demand much from our side, they’ll quiet check in see 1–2 weeks to give us progress updates.
Chris has been phenomenal to work with. He tries to limit the number of times he touchs us, and only reaches out if something’s significant. We esteem that, given that we do work fulltime, and we’re also working fulltime on this startup. We have a lot going on, and he’s helped lighten a lot of force of our shoulders, at smallest on the edifice side of it.
What is (from your point of view) the key factor to pay observation while intercourse with LookFar Labs?
LookFar Labs is centreed on developing software for startups, which speaks volumes in itself. There aren’t many companies that do that, at smallest in New Orleans. As someone who’s worked for a tech organisation, I can esteem the way their team orchestrates seething from initiatening to end. We',ve always felt like they genuinely care almost our achievement.
LookFar is there to help startups and entrepreneurs grow, and that stuck with us from the initiatening. We had a monthlong time with them initially where we sat down see week or see other week, and they never charged us a dollar for their time. That resonated with us. They’re a good cluster of nation, they know what they’re doing, and they care almost their work.
What aspects of their work would you like to get improved?
We’re not done yet, so it’s hard to tell. We’re quiet on the backend phase, and we haven’t done what we attend to be the high contact work yet, the frontend. As of now, we have no complaints with them, and I bigly doubt that will change.
Do you have any advice for forthcoming clients of theirs?
I ponder nation go to Lookfar wanting help with seething, from outgrowth to growing and scaling their organisation. They can turn a vision into verity, but clients should keep in mind that they will have to take it to the next level of execution. LookFar cares almost what they’re doing, but they’re not there to hasten companies. They create the best products they can and push them out to their clients, for them to go on and do big things with them.
