Gritsy: a mobile social network for athletes
Client: Gritsy OÜ
Gritsy — is the:
- healthy lifestyle startup
- mobile app for the US, Canada and Western Europe
- all social networking features, including communication and content sharing
- joint physical training
- competing with friends as personal motivation
- resume posting and job searching by athletes
T h e c h a l l e n g e
The Spider Group team has been given an fascinating task – to create a social network in six months from the stage of writing the technical specifications. In other words, from scratch.
The implementation of the project started with an in-depth business analysis, which included the concept analysis, market research, customer development, customer journey map, structured formulation of customer requirements in accordance with the technical realities and financial capabilities.
A u t h o r i z a t i o n
You can sign up by email, Apple ID or Facebook account. When signing in you need a username and password combination.The password can be restored by sending a numeric code to the email address entered by the user.
The first time Gritsy asks for a minimal personal information set. Then each user is free to fill out a profile in full detail in order to communicate effectively with the community.
P r o f i l e
Gritsy opens its capabilities to users as their accounts develop. To do this, the app awards Grit points for certain actions. It’s about a healthy lifestyle, so points are awarded not only for socializing or publishing, but also for physical activity – through integration with Apple Health.
Points are awarded in the quickest way if the user develops organically, combining in-app communication and physical exercises. You can show or hide savings from other people.
Gritsy Profile created especially for athletes. In addition to the usual data such as name, photo and description, it’s available to enter sports interests, countries of residence and activity, the official sport player number and other information that emphasizes sports activities, as well as receive awards for participation and wins in challenges and competitions with colleagues in the social network.
Development features
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Creation of a social network by a small team in a short time -
Close work with the customer, who is far from mobile development -
Preliminary preparation: analytics, marketing, technical specifications -
Assisting in the presentation to partners and investors -
Conscious simplification of the first stage to the MVP framework -
Three versions of the design before production -
Incorporating significant scalability -
Planning for future work
P l a n s
- Gritsy has a lot of development ahead of it.
- The app will include opportunities to post CV and vacancies for athletes to help employ professionals who are not pursuing public careers
- Coaches will be able to sell authoring courses
- Challenges will be joined by duels and battles – single and team competitions with Apple Health support
- Augmented reality and machine vision integration expected
- Follow the project in the Spider Group portfolio, it will be exciting!
Development statistics
- Business analytics — 200 hours
- Design — 300 hours
- iOS — 1100 hours
- Web — 40 hours
- Backend — 600 hours
- Testing — 400 hours
- Management — 800 hours
- Implementation took one year
The team
- Analyst — 1
- Project manager — 1
- Designers — 2
- iOS developers — 3
- Web developer — 1
- QA engineers — 2
- Backend developers — 2
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