Plum District
For Moms By Moms
About
Plum District provides locally relevant offers moms love. It's a community built for moms, by moms, where local mavens share offers from regional and national merchants. And it's all about putting mom first by connecting her with products and inspirations that make her life easier.
Plum District was founded in March 2010 in San Francisco, led by CEO Megan Gardner. The company has since raised over $30 million in funding and expanded into 28 metro markets across the United States.
Plum District was acquired by nCrowd in 2014.
Client’s
location
Railsware
team
Timeline
Plum District has been partnered with Railsware for more than a year. We principally use Railsware as an outsourced development shop, but have been thrilled with their deep level of expertise. For example, we often consult with them on architectural decisions and scale issues. They are participants in our sprints and stand-ups, and afford us the ability to develop round-the-clock.
They fit in snuggly with our culture, never afraid to voice an opinion when it counts. Their work is high-quality and I particularly appreciate their testing oriented development philosophy.
Involvement
Railsware team has migrated PlumDistrict.com from Rails 1 to Rails 3, done some front-end development, as well as adopted this application to mobile.
As a part of this project, our engineers have also built a unified API for web and mobile applications, and done an extensive architectural analysis in order to help Plum District further scale the app and do more custom Ruby On Rails development.
Technologies
Integrations
![#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash about=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash text=#<Hashie::Array ["Edward Nevraumont had the idea for Restauranteers in the summer of 2010. He teamed up with a colleague to produce a dining club in Seattle that allowed reserving a table and saving up to half off a bill.\n", "To ensure tables were open, the site offered reservation times set by the individual restaurants. If site visitors knew where they would like to eat, reservations to specific restaurants could be made online. Adventurous diners could experience something new by allowing the site to choose a restaurant for them, based on price range and personal preferences.\n"]>> customer=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash city_filename="seattle" location="Seattle" name="Name" region="WA, USA" title="Title"> integrations=#<Hashie::Array ["facebook", "twitter", "googleauth", "googlemaps", "stripe", "twilio", "mailchimp", "mailtrap"]> involvement=#<Hashie::Array ["front-end", "back-end", "graphic", "interaction", "support", "system"]> involvementText=#<Hashie::Array ["Railsware helped shape the scope for the Restauranteers product and then moved through production taking care of all the front-end and back-end development, as well as graphical and UI design. As a result, our team helped launch a nicely designed application with a comprehensive restaurant booking engine behind it.\n"]> name="Restauranteers" page_theme="light" preview_theme="light" seo=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash description="Edward Nevraumont had the idea for Restauranteers in the summer of 2010. He teamed up with a colleague to produce a dining club in Seattle that allowed reserving a table and saving up to half off a bill | Railsware Case Studies" footer_text="Railsware is a leading offshore Ruby on Rails company which provides contracting and consulting services around the world. We are among the premium ruby on rails development companies on the US market and our team is building top web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails, React, Angular and more" title="Restauranteers | Case Study by Railsware"> slogan="Dine and Discover" team=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash designers=1 engineers=2> technologies=#<Hashie::Array ["rails", "jquery", "ruby", "js", "sass", "haml", "mysql"]> timeline=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash end="September 2011" start="April 2011">>](/images/case-studies/pages/restauranteers/restauranteers-round-preview-3de08da2.jpg)
![#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash about=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash text=#<Hashie::Array ["Peroozal is a better way for consumers to find books and for authors to find readers. This is a marketing/discovery platform where recommendations by authors are aggregated so that the readers can discover their next great read.\n", "Peroozal provides readers with an access to authors books and all the recommendations he has received for his books from other authors. The service also connects users to the authors at the time of the purchase of the book and helps authors keep in touch with their readers.\n", "With no publishers involved, Peroozal allows only the author and the reader sign up and gives an opportunity to sell ebooks and regular books to readers, sell services to authors, and advertise.\n"]>> customer=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash city_filename="ashburn" location="Ashburn" name="Name" region="VA, USA" title="Title"> integrations=#<Hashie::Array ["facebook", "twitter", "mailchimp", "mailtrap", "airbrake", "newrelic"]> involvement=#<Hashie::Array ["front-end", "back-end", "graphic", "interaction", "system", "support"]> involvementText=#<Hashie::Array ["Railsware has managed all the product development aspects including front-end and back-end, as well as graphical and user interface design. The development has been done in close communication with Peroozal team and following Railsware key workflows in order to ensure that the web app meets the goals that were set for it.\n"]> name="Peroozal" page_theme="light" preview_theme="light" seo=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash description="Peroozal is a better way for consumers to find books and for authors to find readers | Railsware Case Studies" footer_text="Railsware is a leading offshore Ruby on Rails company which provides contracting and consulting services around the world. We are among the premium ruby on rails development companies on the US market and our team is building top web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails, React, Angular and more." title="Peroozal | Case Study by Railsware"> slogan="Your Favourite Authors. Their Favourite Books" team=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash designers=2 engineers=3> technologies=#<Hashie::Array ["rails", "jquery", "ruby", "js", "sass", "haml", "psql", "redis", "resque", "solr", "aws"]> timeline=#<Middleman::Util::EnhancedHash end="May 2012" start="April 2010">>](/images/case-studies/pages/peroozal/peroozal-round-preview-9b92698d.jpg)