Portfolio

Hemmalivs Online Store

Hemmalivs is an online store letting people in the Helsingborg area of Sweden do their grocery shopping from home. In addition to being very convenient for the customers, the efficient deliveries are also more friendly to the environment than if people were to drive to and from the supermarket themselves.

When the developers of their original system went out of business, Hemmalivs asked us to help them design and develop a brand new system to replace to old one.

We simplified the user interface and made the design feel more open and welcoming, while still being familiar to old customers. We used Javascript and Ajax to streamline the shopping experience for customers.

The Ruby on Rails-based backend integrates with the payment gateway Netgiro to allow customers to pay with credit card or direct payment from their Swedish bank accounts. The backend also integrates with Hemmalivs existing order and logistics system.

Project completed in 2009

Mittpostnummer Hyperlocal Portal

On behalf of our client ICE House we developed a platform for hyperlocal portals. The portals are accessed through nearly 7000 domain names, one for each Swedish zip code. Visiting the portal for your local zip code will show you all kinds of things available near you, such as classified ads, houses on the market, current offers of local companies, etc. Think of it as the common bulletin boards at your local grocery store, on steroids.

The sites use Google Maps to give the visitors an intuitive interface to browse the site. The posts you see change as you pan and zoom around the map. The sites’ content is mainly provided by agents – people local to each portal’s area. We also created a simple API that the developers at ICE House can use to post things that their spiders find while they crawl around the web looking for geocoded data.

This was also the first project where we used CarrierWave, a Ruby on Rails plugin for handling file uploads developed by our very own Jonas Nicklas. We’ll talk more about CarrierWave in an upcoming post on this blog.

Project completed in 2009

Mediatec Group Web Site

In cooperation with our parent company, Edithouse, we created a web site for Mediatec Group, one of Europe’s largest corporations working with technical solutions for event and television productions.

We developed a simple CMS that automatically gathered products, news and case studies for their different business units.

The power of Ruby on Rails allowed us to quickly develop this custom solution that was specifically tailored to their needs, instead of trying to shoehorn them into a complicated off-the-shelf solution.

Project completed in 2008