Demo Missing Pages / Alpha Real Time Engine

Felix

What was this week about?

Vortex and I spend some time figuring out how we want to proceed with demo and have prioritized some things. We’ve done a few of the pages that have been missing – dashboard page, profile edit page, tweaked some smaller details like form fields/inputs/datetime component/description editor and features requested by community (https://trello.com/b/iA4vmvmm/stipend-platform-features-voting), but we are waiting to tick off a few more boxes and then we’ll update the current demo.stipend.me site – think of it as a “content patch“.

As far as the alpha goes, this week I mostly spent time on finalizing real-time notification (had to abstract it a bit in the backend code so that future features that require real-time will be faster to complete and put in place) and focused on the the things that happens after the job has been posted – client is able to see currently active jobs (that he/she posted) as well as see list of freelancers that have sent proposals, from there he/she can invite (multiple) freelancers to the interview phase (the chat phase – where freelancers and client can chat and further communicate details over the project) which will ultimately lead to the right freelancer being hired.

What will next week be about?

As I’ve come to that interview phase, we’ll need chat system built up sooner than latter. I’ll focus on getting chat integrated next week and connect it with what I described up above. Depending on how long that takes, I’ll see what other things needs to be tweaked/fixed/added and mention them in the next weekly update. One thing that I will focus next is part where freelancer can see all the jobs that he/she applied to (sent proposal to), which is more-or-less similar to what I described above, just from different angle.