endorsedOngoing

Fitness Tracking Platform & Inventory Database Development

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development

Industry

Information Technology

Duration

143 months

Budget

10K - 49K

Start Date

1 September 2014

Team Size

6-10 Employees

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

82/100

Strong

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Client

Confidential

United Kingdom

Project Summary

Abbacus developed an online fitness and nutrition tracking tool (similar to FitBit) that allowed users to log health metrics and receive personalized suggestions. The vendor’s current engagement is building a database structure and full backend to enable inventory and supply chain management; the frontend uses React and JavaScript to provide a unified responsive codebase for web and mobile. The client praises Abbacus’s technical skills, responsiveness, and global resource pool.

Key Challenges

Lack of internal database expertise for inventory and supply chain management
Early-stage limitations requiring external development resources

Project Deliverables

Fitness and nutrition tracking platform
Backend and database structure
Responsive web and mobile codebase (React and JavaScript)

Project Solution

Abbacus built an online fitness and nutrition tracking platform that allowed users to log metrics and receive personalized recommendations. For the current engagement they are constructing the database architecture and the entire backend while using React and JavaScript to render a responsive front end shared between web and mobile, enabling identical code across both. The earlier fitness app required 5–6 web developers; the ongoing backend work may involve a substantially larger team. Project management is accessible and the team will use Basecamp for the broader backend scope.

Project Outcome

Beta tests with over 1,000 users scored 3–3.5/5
Project manager was highly accessible and the team is moving to Basecamp for broader-scope coordination

Platforms

Web
Mobile

Tech Stack

React.js
JavaScript

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“Technical skills and uncompromising responsiveness are major strengths. The ability to tap into a global resource pool also bring advantages when it comes to project delivery.”
Bunty Agarwal
Co-Founder
Date: 10/30/2017