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Electric Bike-Sharing Mobility Platform

Services Covered:

Mobile Application Development • Website Development • DevOps • Software QA and Testing • Software Maintenance and Support

Industry

Logistics & Transportation

9 months

Budget

50K - 199K

Start Date

1 January 2021

Team Size

6-10

Engagement Model

Onshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

75/100

Good

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Client

HopBike

India

Project Summary

An electric bike-sharing network (HopBike) hired Nickelfox to build an ecosystem comprising native mobile apps and web-based admin and operations dashboards. Nickelfox delivered a native Android app, a Python backend and web dashboards, using AWS, Node.js and Kotlin, and followed Agile practices. The solution launched successfully in multiple cities, with a satisfactory codebase and minimal performance complaints, helping address first-mile/last-mile mobility and supporting the client's mission to lower carbon emissions.

Key Challenges

Needed an agency with GPS and on-demand experience.
Required strong third-party integrations capability.
Required excellent UX for a consumer-facing product.

Project Deliverables

Native Android app
Python backend
Web admin and operations dashboards

Project Solution

Nickelfox was shortlisted for their UX expertise and prior experience with GPS and on-demand capabilities and third-party integrations. The vendor built an ecosystem consisting of native mobile apps and web-based admin and operations dashboards. Deliverables included a native Android app, a Python backend and web admin/operations dashboards. The engagement followed project planning and iterative development sprints, with automation QA and reviews, DevOps (CI/CD), deployment, knowledge transfer and support. Technologies used included AWS, Node.js and Kotlin Native.

Project Outcome

Project is successfully running in multiple cities.
Codebase was satisfactory with minimal performance complaints.
Solution helped lower carbon emissions and addressed the first-mile/last-mile problem.

Platforms

Mobile
Web
Cloud

Tech Stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Node.js
Kotlin
Python
Android

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

With Nickelfox's help, we launched our solution in several cities and spread our mission of cutting carbon emissions. The code base was good enough for us, and we heard very few complaints about performance. Everyone on their team was highly qualified.
Nikhil Bhatia
Co-Founder
Date: 10/31/2022