Athletic Recruitment Platform
Client and Business Goals
Client: An innovative US-based company specializing in collegiate sports data management.
Business Goals: The client aimed to revolutionize the way collegiate football player data is managed and utilized. Their objective was to build a comprehensive, user-friendly database for football staff at various colleges. This database would serve as a centralized platform, facilitating the tracking and recruitment of football players seeking to transfer colleges. The ultimate goal was to create a tool that saves time and resources for college football staff, while providing accurate and easily accessible data.
Challenges
The primary challenge was the client’s lack of detailed project documentation or wireframes, combined with their limited experience in software development. They required a sophisticated, database-driven web application with specific features like filterable, sortable, and searchable database options, custom column calculations, user-specific customizations, and robust admin control over user permissions. The project demanded a high level of technical expertise and creative problem-solving to translate the client’s ambitious ideas into a practical, efficient application.
The Solution
Our team approached this project with a meticulous and collaborative mindset. During the Discovery Phase, we worked closely with the client to develop project documentation and wireframes, ensuring a clear understanding of their vision and requirements. This phase was not only efficient but also sparked innovative ideas that enriched the project.
We built the web application from the ground up, incorporating all the desired features:
- A dynamic, easily navigable database that users could filter, sort, and search.
- Functionalities allowing users to mark database rows and perform custom calculations.
- Personalized user experiences with saved customizations and secure login features.
- Comprehensive admin controls for managing user permissions and data access.
Throughout the process, we maintained constant communication with the client, integrating their feedback and new ideas seamlessly. This innovative solution has significantly enhanced the client’s business operations, leading to increased customer satisfaction and revenue. In terms of costs the client mentioned in the Clutch review the following: “Already made back my money in 26 days with more customers“.
Review by Owner
- 100% user satisfaction: every single customer of ours using this loves it. It absolutely does what we wanted and without issues.
- 100% admin satisfaction: our employees find updating the data and managing users to be infinitely more improved.
- new customers: within the first month of its release, we have gotten six new clients who specifically reference the new look and features of the application as a reason for their purchase of our service
- In-Person Meeting
- Email or Messaging App
That really isn’t in their scope as developers, but I think I could have been a more effective client at the beginning if I understood the threads, where to navigate to files, etc. out of the gate. And let me confirm that this was not really a problem at all!
Technologies
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PHP
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Laravel
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HTML5
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CSS3
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Javascript
Key features in the app
- Authorization
- Forgot password
- Extended filter options
- Import
- Export
- Admin dashboard
- Ability to create a user from admin dashboard