Inspiration
You've have a really long day... Let's just say you've gone from aiming for "straights A's "... to "Bs"... "to Cs"... to "just passing". Worst of all, you really miss home and your dog Waffles. Wouldn't it be nice if you could be cheered up?
What it does
Enter Doggish! This is the paws on demand service that ensures flurry deliver to you! Using Doggish you can see the nearest dog play dates conveniently displayed on a map. Would like some 4 legged action now?? Search for specific dogs and notify them right away!
What about dog owners you ask? As a dog owner of course you want to be encourage to take your precious pooch out, socialize, and show him off! But wait! With every confirmed play date, you earn points. Whenever you reach the next level, you get your pick of pet prizes!
There's more! We also waited to eliminate digital noise. Everyone hates irrelevant advertisements thrown in their faces. With our app, local pet stores can offer coupons as prizes! This relevant, direct marketing ensures happier consumers and businesses. Are you a pet product company? No problem! Contact us to list your new product as a prize sample. Choose to directly market to small or large, young or old dogs, even specific breeds of dogs!
How we built it
We using facebook login to authenticate users, and take that access token to exchange for valid Amazon web services credentials (Cognito) to access resources. The database is a noSQL, fully managed and scaleable dynamo db. To ensure minimal latency we don't edit the database directly. We can AWS lambda functions, which pretty gives us a on demand server to run whatever code we need. We used google cloud messaging for push notifications to users. Of course we use google maps and markers to display the play date points. As a team, of course we realize we could not implement everything we wanted. Our designer used Illustrator and Photoshop to whip up custom icons and images as "Coming soon" features.
What's next for Doggish
We plan on extensive testing for bugs and finishing the implementation. We came together because we wanted to leverage cool technology and built something helpful. You might just find in the app store soon!
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