Weekly update 31/08/2018

Anupam Varshney
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

In the past two weeks, our development team made some API analysis of our service providers. This analysis was done to see if their APIs fit our needs and in case there are things that we need to adapt in the core API before it’s too late to get added. Just making double sure we go about this without any mistakes :)

We also finalized building and testing our Stripe integration. In addition to this, we’ve built a provider sheet to list potential partners, their API keys (if possible) and commenting about its development progress.

We’re getting soft confirmations from various travel companies to integrate their APIs with our platform. We’ll closely work with them and start the API integration process soon.

Integration with Auth0 for simple and secure authentication for the users has been finished. Check out our dev wiki: https://github.com/PleaseDotCom/frontend/wiki

List of features that were added:

1. Changed the user from backend: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2104508/stories/159463539

2. Implement PATCH /trips/{tripdId}: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2104508/stories/159686810

3. Re-built the checkout page using Stripe: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2104508/stories/159463339

List of bugs that were fixed:

1. Messenger bot was not returning results: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2104508/stories/159878866

2. Service Create and Update form page were showing a blank page: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2104508/stories/159733712

3. Voice search is working perfectly fine: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159890462

4. Create trip is working on staging: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159917005

List of major chores:

1. Service categorization: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159382068

2. Built service page mockup: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159824241

3. Built Trip detail page mockup: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159824074

4. Unit tests written for Trips endpoints: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159785820

5. Ran unit /services & /trips tests on CI Server: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159916749

6. Integration Analysis of Tripadvisor Instant Booking API: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159760857

7. Added loaders in Stripe payment flow: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159654915

8. Got access to a “Static” API: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159700429

9. Got access to a “Dynamic” API: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159700443

10. Connected Auth0 to Mongo Atlas and created related Database Action Scripts: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159899859

11. Integration analysis of Auth0: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159564970

12. Implemented auth0 custom authorizer: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159761857

13. Investigated ACL solutions: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159889448

14. Built a provider documentation: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159931157

15. Added a reservation table in the new backend: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159931890

16. API for wishlist: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/160097650

17. Created script for npm releases: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/160195897

Marketing

Our marketing team has been focusing on building partnerships and the community. We’ll soon be launching our bounty program for all the crypto users.

This week we also began our private round of funding. So investors reachout is going strong.

Event

This week our team is attending two major events; TechCrunch Disrupt and Coinsbank’s Blockchain Cruise. Here’s Kristi and Romain at our booth:

Florent, on the other hand, is enjoying in the middle of the ocean whilst making sure we secure some good partnerships.

We’re hiring

If you think you have what it takes to make Please.com a successful product, we’d love to speak with you. Please write to us at hello@please.com if you’re interested.

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