Case Study: Hauz web portal & eCommerce platform
Interior design marketplace rescued from a stalled build and launched on schedule – ~40% faster to market than a full rebuild, enabling the Client to begin validating the business idea with furniture dealers and design specialists.
Business challenge
The Client wanted to launch a web service enabling users to find interior design inspiration in photos, identify similar furniture and interior elements, buy them online, and connect with specialists to realize those ideas. The application also needed to support online shops for furniture dealers and specialists to list their goods and services, with a key feature allowing users to snap objects in photos to real products in interactive mode.
Additional challenge:
Development had been started with a prior contractor but was abandoned due to quality and schedule issues – leaving a partially built codebase with unresolved defects that required recovery before any new work could continue.
Our solution
We have built a web system, which divides all service functionality among the following types of users: sale managers, specialists and visitors.
Product features:
- sale managers have a possibility to offer various goods (furniture, household appliances, décor elements, the dishes, etc.) for sale;
- specialists (decorators, electricians, etc.) can offer their services.
Other features:
- unauthorized visitors can search and look through design ideas, goods and services. These goods and services can be immediately ordered in the system’s shops;
- for moderation and content management, we have realized an administrator module (only the Hauz web service specialists have an access to it).
Before:
- Platform development was started with a prior contractor but abandoned – the delivered codebase contained unresolved defects and did not meet quality or schedule requirements
- All existing code required full QA review and refactoring before any new development could begin
- The interactive photo-to-product snapping feature – central to the service – was unfinished and non-functional at handoff
- No viable path to market existed; the Client’s ability to validate the business idea with furniture dealers and design specialists remained blocked
After:
- All prior-contractor defects resolved through Scrum-driven code recovery – full defect backlog cleared before launch
- Code reviewed, QA completed, and platform delivered on schedule and within the agreed budget
- Photo-to-product snapping feature fully implemented and functional at launch, enabling users to link design photos to purchasable goods
- Client launched the Hauz marketplace and began attracting furniture dealers, decor specialists, and interior designers to the platform
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