Makeomatic Blog: Website, mobile application and design development

Only one week left before we step into 2016. It’s been a productive year for Makeomatic. Not breaking the established tradition, we visited NodeConf in Waterford. Throughout the year our team leaders coached two interns, one of them eventually joined and empowered the team. On a more serious side, we polished and shipped older products as well as plunged into several new challenges. We’ll tell you briefly about one of those and the technical decisions we made on the way.

A key activity of Makeomatic in the past year has been our involvement in people search engine. Today, we would like to show you briefly what this product is, and how Makeomatic have contributed to it. This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing our involvement with peoplefinders and showcasing our solutions to their questions and problems.

Addressing issues and solving problems, people and businesses are facing in their everyday routine, no matter how challenging they are, has always been usual practice for us at Makeomatic. But when a client with more than 15 years of experience in international shipping turned to us asking for help, at first we were frozen with shock — we had no idea of how intricate and sometimes misleading the process of worldwide logistics could be. It took us time and effort to investigate this question in great detail and get back to the client with the solution. We proposed a technical concept using new technologies, such as elasticseach, angular.js and node.js. In the end we managed to obtain a simple search engine of Harmonized System codes.

Overburdened with paperwork, many ambitious and hard-working entrepreneurs across the Globe willing to take their growing business beyond the boundaries of their countries, face spending time and money on filling out necessary documents, obtaining customs declarations in order to ship their products on the international markets. Anyone who had to go through this costly process at least once knows well what a waste of time and effort it is.