TL;DR : We worked with Madeinvote for 1,5 years on a complex project leading to the development of a API-intensive Back-Office like web platform. The platform’s goal is to optimize workflow & help their team do on Madein360 the tasks they had to use 3 different services to complete.
🧩 The initial problem
Madeinvote is a company specialized in conducting surveys and marketing studies for their clients, mostly in the Retail and Real Estate verticals. They build surveys, make sure they are properly taken buy end-customers, and gather insights/results which they then provide to their clients.
When Madeinvote got into contact with us, their main problem was using too many external services for a single project/client. Switching between services meant friction, time unefficiently used and thus revenue losses.
âś… The solution
We developed a web platform called Madein360 which addressed this issue by allowing the Madeinvote team to conduct the entirety of a project on a single platform, using the external services’ APIs under the hood:
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build & manage complex surveys (Voxco API)
Voxco is a service allowing clients to create complex surveys with 20+ question types, logic between question to allow for different user experiences for a given survey, host surveys, etc. We created a DSL allowing Madeinvote to create surveys entirely through a text editor on Madein360, and connected it to the Voxco API.
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promote the created surveys with social ads (Meta Business API)
Once a survey is created, it needs to be pushed to the relevant audience. Meta Business allows to do just that with the use of Facebook & Instagram ads, and provides various stats (reach, engagement, money spent, etc). We have coded a complete interface allowing to create the relevant resources (Campaigns, Adsets, Ads, Audiences) through the Meta Business API directly from the Madein360 platform, and get ads statistics in our in-house dashboard.
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fetch & display survey analytics (DATAVIV’ API)
DATAVIV’ is a data visualization service. Madeinvote used it by feeding it Voxco and Meta Business stats, and outputting pretty slides. We coded a connector doing that automatically, by formatting the data and sending it to DATAVIV’ through their API.
Because those 3 APIs are deeply linked with Madein360, concurrency, load management, synchronization & performance were at the core of this challenging project.
The platform was designed & integrated according to the visual identity of Madeinvote’s main front-facing website. To prepare this, Forever Bije produced a UI toolkit and designs of the pages.
đź’» The stack
- App: Ruby on Rails
- Database: PostgreSQL, Redis
- Testing: Rspec, FactoryBot
- Background Tasks: ActiveJob, Sidekiq
- CSS: SASS, Bulma
- Javascript: Stimulus, ActionCable
- Hosting: Scalingo
- CI/CD & Project Management: Gitlab
🚀 The results
After a year and a half of close collaboration, we successfully delivered a version of the platform in accordance with the initial specifications paper at the end of 2022.
The platform is still running in production and development is being carried on by 2 in-house Madeinvote developers which we helped recruit & train.
