Washmen

The uber for laundry and dry cleaning

The Challenge

Washmen is uber for laundry and dry cleaning with pick up and drop offs at your time of convenience. The challenge posed by the minimal viable product was unchartered territory for everyone in the team. Building an app that would alert business owners and delivery staff alike from incoming orders meant they needed to work together in real-time. We chose a reactive Javascript framework called Meteor.js and Meteoric, an Ionic integration for Meteor.js to build Hybrid apps.

The Solution

As part of the front end team, I spent tremendous amount of time to build responsive UI for Android and iOS mobile devices. It also meant picking up Ionic and getting familiar with Meteor.js environment and its CLI.

My Toolbox

Development

  • Meteor.js environment
  • Meteoric (Ionic for Meteor)
  • Sass preprocessor