Real-Estate App for Torii
About the Client
Revolutionizing the real-estate sale and purchase business, Torii has been putting in the work since 2017 to make property sale and purchase a breeze for the residents of Massachusetts and California. What sets them apart from the competition is their endeavour to integrate the power of automation and machine-learning with human interactions to provide that unique blend of services to their customers. With their business booming, they also help buyers cover closing costs for homes using the commission they receive.
The Problem
As a team of two visionaries, while building their dream platform to provide consumers with easy to use real-estate brokerage platforms, they came across NativeBase, a UI library for React Native which was built by us and they loved the fact that it helped them solve most of their problems. On the basis of this experience, they reached out to us with a goal to increase their manpower and outsource development of their pet-project, which they decided to call Torii.
The engagement with the client was a simple one. Two developers were handling a website built in React & a mobile app built in React Native. They wanted to add more features into it, which was decided on a Time & Material engagement plan. This engagement was initially decided to last for an year with continuous evaluation and would be revisited based on quality of work. The engagement still continues.
The engagement with the client was a simple one. Two developers were handling a website built in React & a mobile app built in React Native. They wanted to add more features into it, which was decided on a Time & Material engagement plan. This engagement was initially decided to last for an year with continuous evaluation and would be revisited based on quality of work. The engagement still continues.
Team On-Call
The project requirements involved improvement and maintenance of two different platforms, which instantly called for a team of experts on both web and mobile app development to work in sync and deliver immaculate results. An important skillset that was required in the team to be delegated was the ability to disintegrate complex problems into smaller, easier ones to efficiently solve them. The initial team consisted of two experts and one manager based on the requirements of the clients, which was them reduced to a single dedicated developer handling the entire project. A scale-up was planned but was delayed due to the COVID-19 situation.
Further development and enhancement of the existing web and mobile platform.
Google Maps, HubSpot CRM, Email Delivery and many other integrations into the platform.
Improve security of the mobile app with Face/Finger ID.
SEO optimization and Chat Bot integration.
Strategy
We collaborated with Torii and undertook a project based on the time and material engagement model, spread over a period of one year, to conceptualise their vision of a digital solution to streamline real-estate processes.
Analysis Planning
Based on the in-house team’s expert opinion, the technologies Frontend of the mobile and web versions of the app were finalised to be React Native and React respectively while they chose Node.js & Express as the appropriate tech stack for the Backend.
UI/UX
The team utilised Material-UI as the library to create designs and themes for the web application while the design tool was decided to be invisionApp.
Development
As per the requirements which the project demanded, the developers integrated Google maps for location services, real-estate tools, a chatbot as well as enable face and finger ID for enhanced security.
Testing
The team used cutting edge technologies like Jest and Cypress to conduct rigorous testing throughout the development process for a truly robust app. Additionally, the finished product was delivered to the client for UAT and made changes accordingly.
Delivery
The finished product was delivered and launched in a little more than after the year which was initially proposed. It has received positive feedback and has helped to ease the process of buying houses in California and Massachusetts.
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