Fluxx
Uber-like two-sided peer-to-peer freight platform
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Summary
Fluxx is a freight platform with applications for iOS and Android. Apps were created using the Flutter framework, Dart, and JS languages. Redux has been chosen for state management. Google Maps was integrated into the apps via a special Flutter plugin.
Firebase was used for all the backend capacities. It provides client for Flutter that gives ability to connect the client apps with the services that are needed for successful platform creation: Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging, and Firebase Cloud Functions.
Flutter and Firebase were integrated with Stripe to provide a smooth payment process.
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Request
Nick Dyer, an entrepreneur from Australia, came to us with a request to implement his Uber-like app. His idea was that users should have the ability to reduce their cost of travel and earn money by delivering freight to others on their route.
All this had to be made with native UI, friendly UX, and a smooth & reliable payment process. And most importantly - it had to be done as soon as possible since Nick wanted to understand whether his idea worked or not.
Scope of the project
Our main technical decisions: Flutter, Firebase and Stripe.
- The single code base for all platforms
Gives an opportunity to build, test and deploy mobile applications for different platforms from a single codebase.
- Application performance
Great performance because it compiles native code. While other cross-platform frameworks do not compile and/or have other restrictions that directly affect application performance.
- Ample UI features
Everything is a widget and it comes up with a wide variety of high-quality pre-existing widgets that can easily be added to your app and create visually appealing apps that that most of the users like.
- Google Maps integration
Google Maps has 99% coverage of the world and 1 billion monthly active users. That’s why we chose this map provider. With the Flutter plugin that provides a Google Maps widget, it was allowed to integrate it in no time.
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- Backend-as-a-service
Firebase is the BaaS that provided us the possibility to not implement essential features like Authentication, Data storage, database, and push notifications and don’t spend time on various environments, their management, and scaling. So we didn’t need a separate backend team and fully concentrated on the Frontend part.
- Integrations
Firebase provides a feature-rich client for Flutter that is easy to use and integrate. It gives a possibility to connect Flutter with all the services we needed: Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Cloud Firestore
We used Cloud Firestore because it’s a scalable database that allows real-time data exchange and data subscriptions for reactive UI updates.
- Authentication
Firebase offers a simple and quick authentication process that allowed us to integrate authentication in our apps via Facebook, Google, and email sign-in.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
This feature helps to configure push notifications on both platforms (Android and iOS) and implement important and necessary notifications such as informing about the acceptance of the request, successful completion of the order, and payment for it.
- Quality and Reliable Reputation
Stripe is one of the leading solutions for internet payments worldwide. During the last few years over 100k businesses in Australia started using Stripe to proceed with their payment process. It’s one of the very few platforms that provides the possibility to create a two-sided peer-to-peer platform.
- Payment methods integration
Allowed to accept cards (and potentially Apple Pay/Google Pay), and securely store payment data to make payments easily.
- Two-sided payments
Stripe provides conditions under which the application collects payment and pays out only after a successfully completed order.
Deliveries
We built mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms using the Flutter framework with perfect quality and performance. In this project, our state management was Redux, as it was used by the founding team engineers, and they had experience with it.
Scope of the project
Our main technical decisions:
Flutter is one of the few technologies that allow to create and test an MVP as quickly as possible. It was very important for gaining initial traction and showing it to potential investors, in the context of the client’s request.
- Single code base for all platforms
Gives an opportunity to build, test and deploy mobile applications for different platforms from a single codebase.
- Application performance
Native code compilation means great performance. This is a major advantage of Flutter over the majority of other cross-platform frameworks, which do not provide compilation, or have other technical limitations that impair performance.
- Ample UI features
Flutter comes with a wide variety of high-quality UI components - widgets. They can be easily added to your app to create a visually appealing UI that most users like.
- Google Maps integration
Google Maps has 99% coverage of the world and 1 billion monthly active users. That’s why we chose this map provider. With the Flutter plugin that provides a Google Maps widget, it was integrated in no time.
- Backend-as-a-service
Firebase is the BaaS that has allowed us to streamline the implementation of essential features like authentication, data storage, and push notifications. It has alleviated the need to spend precious time developing, maintaining, and scaling a backend. So we didn’t need a separate backend team and were able to focus entirely on the Frontend part.
- Integrations
Firebase provides a feature-rich client for Flutter that is easy to use and integrate. It provides the ability to connect Flutter with all the services we need: Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, and Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Cloud Firestore
We used Cloud Firestore because it’s a scalable database that allows real-time data exchange and data subscriptions for reactive UI updates.
- Authentication
Firebase offers a framework for authentication which makes third-party auth provider integration a breeze. This has allowed us to integrate Facebook, Google, and email sign-in quickly and securely.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
This feature helps to configure push notifications on both platforms: Android and iOS. Moreover, it’s useful for implementing essential and urgent notifications such as informing about the acceptance of the request, successful completion of the order, and payment for it.
- Firebase Cloud Functions
Cloud Functions is a serverless framework that lets you automatically run custom backend code. It integrates with the whole Firebase platform. The huge benefit is that Cloud Functions need zero maintenance and keep logic and user data private and secure.
- Quality and Reliable Reputation
Stripe is one of the leading solutions for internet payments worldwide. During the last few years over 100k businesses in Australia started using Stripe to proceed with their payment process. It’s one of the very few platforms that provides the ability to create a two-sided peer-to-peer platform. In its turn, peer-to-peer is an encrypted connection and has fraud-monitoring capabilities. Along with anonymity, which helps minimize the risk of data breaches, and ease of use - P2P is very useful in terms of dealing with users’ money.
- Payment methods integration
Allowed to accept bank cards, Google Pay and Apple Pay, and securely store data for future payments.
- Buyer protection
Stripe provides conditions under which the application collects payment and pays out only after a successfully completed order. Also, it provides automatic refunds which are useful for the users.
Deliverables
We built mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms using the Flutter framework with perfect quality and performance. In this project, we chose Redux for state management, because it has a unidirectional data flow, an immutable state, and guarantees predictability in the synchronous situation.Redux stores can keep the previous versions of the store, so debugging can be done quickly if something gets wrong.
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We configured and tested a couple of Firebase environments for development, testing and production. Created a set of security rules for Firebase to protect the data along with a set of security rules tests to ensure that they cover every possible scenario of how users can interact with the platform.
Our team configured a two-sided platform inside Stripe. We made custom integration using Firebase Cloud Functions between Firebase and Stripe (now Stripe has a special extension for Firebase that can speed up development even more).
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Prototypes, not presentations
Advertise a freight request and have your goods delivered quicker and cheaper using the Fluxx geolocational algorithm to match your delivery with a peer travelling to your location.
Subsidise your cost of travel and earn money by delivering freight to others on your route. Freight sizes are categorised, so no matter what you drive, there's something that you can carry.
Scope of the project
The task was to create a two-sided peer-to-peer general freight platform that will match the user’s freight delivery requirements with someone heading to the user’s location. To test the client’s idea, we needed to create two apps: iOS and Android.
Our main technical decisions: Flutter, Firebase and Stripe.
Why Flutter?
- The single code base for all platforms
Gives an opportunity to build, test and deploy mobile applications for different platforms from a single codebase.
- Application performance
Great performance because it compiles native code. While other cross-platform frameworks do not compile and/or have other restrictions that directly affect application performance.
- Ample UI features
Everything is a widget and it comes up with a wide variety of high-quality pre-existing widgets that can easily be added to your app and create visually appealing apps that that most of the users like.
- Google Maps integration
Google Maps has 99% coverage of the world and 1 billion monthly active users. That’s why we chose this map provider. With the Flutter plugin that provides a Google Maps widget, it was allowed to integrate it in no time.
- Backend-as-a-service
Firebase is the BaaS that provided us the possibility to not implement essential features like Authentication, Data storage, database, and push notifications and don’t spend time on various environments, their management, and scaling. So we didn’t need a separate backend team and fully concentrated on the Frontend part.
- Integrations
Firebase provides a feature-rich client for Flutter that is easy to use and integrate. It gives a possibility to connect Flutter with all the services we needed: Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Cloud Firestore
We used Cloud Firestore because it’s a scalable database that allows real-time data exchange and data subscriptions for reactive UI updates.
- Authentication
Firebase offers a simple and quick authentication process that allowed us to integrate authentication in our apps via Facebook, Google, and email sign-in.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
This feature helps to configure push notifications on both platforms (Android and iOS) and implement important and necessary notifications such as informing about the acceptance of the request, successful completion of the order, and payment for it.
- Quality and Reliable Reputation
Stripe is one of the leading solutions for internet payments worldwide. During the last few years over 100k businesses in Australia started using Stripe to proceed with their payment process. It’s one of the very few platforms that provides the possibility to create a two-sided peer-to-peer platform.
- Payment methods integration
Allowed to accept cards (and potentially Apple Pay/Google Pay), and securely store payment data to make payments easily.
- Two-sided payments
Stripe provides conditions under which the application collects payment and pays out only after a successfully completed order.
Deliveries
We built mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms using the Flutter framework with perfect quality and performance. In this project, our state management was Redux, as it was used by the founding team engineers, and they had experience with it.
We configured and tested a couple of Firebase environments for development, testing and production. Created a set of security rules for Firebase to protect the data along with a set of security rules tests to ensure that they cover every possible scenario of how users can interact with the platform.
Our team configured a two-sided platform inside Stripe. We made custom integration using Firebase Cloud Functions between Firebase and Stripe (now Stripe has a special extension for Firebase that can speed up development even more).
Scope of the project
Our main technical decisions: Flutter, Firebase and Stripe.
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Prototypes, not presentations
Advertise a freight request and have your goods delivered quicker and cheaper using the Fluxx geolocational algorithm to match your delivery with a peer travelling to your location.
Subsidise your cost of travel and earn money by delivering freight to others on your route. Freight sizes are categorised, so no matter what you drive, there's something that you can carry.
Scope of the project
The task was to create a two-sided peer-to-peer general freight platform that will match the user’s freight delivery requirements with someone heading to the user’s location. To test the client’s idea, we needed to create two apps: iOS and Android.
Our main technical decisions: Flutter, Firebase and Stripe.
Why Flutter?
- The single code base for all platforms
Gives an opportunity to build, test and deploy mobile applications for different platforms from a single codebase.
- Application performance
Great performance because it compiles native code. While other cross-platform frameworks do not compile and/or have other restrictions that directly affect application performance.
- Ample UI features
Everything is a widget and it comes up with a wide variety of high-quality pre-existing widgets that can easily be added to your app and create visually appealing apps that that most of the users like.
- Google Maps integration
Google Maps has 99% coverage of the world and 1 billion monthly active users. That’s why we chose this map provider. With the Flutter plugin that provides a Google Maps widget, it was allowed to integrate it in no time.
- Backend-as-a-service
Firebase is the BaaS that provided us the possibility to not implement essential features like Authentication, Data storage, database, and push notifications and don’t spend time on various environments, their management, and scaling. So we didn’t need a separate backend team and fully concentrated on the Frontend part.
- Integrations
Firebase provides a feature-rich client for Flutter that is easy to use and integrate. It gives a possibility to connect Flutter with all the services we needed: Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Cloud Firestore
We used Cloud Firestore because it’s a scalable database that allows real-time data exchange and data subscriptions for reactive UI updates.
- Authentication
Firebase offers a simple and quick authentication process that allowed us to integrate authentication in our apps via Facebook, Google, and email sign-in.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
This feature helps to configure push notifications on both platforms (Android and iOS) and implement important and necessary notifications such as informing about the acceptance of the request, successful completion of the order, and payment for it.
- Quality and Reliable Reputation
Stripe is one of the leading solutions for internet payments worldwide. During the last few years over 100k businesses in Australia started using Stripe to proceed with their payment process. It’s one of the very few platforms that provides the possibility to create a two-sided peer-to-peer platform.
- Payment methods integration
Allowed to accept cards (and potentially Apple Pay/Google Pay), and securely store payment data to make payments easily.
- Two-sided payments
Stripe provides conditions under which the application collects payment and pays out only after a successfully completed order.
Deliveries
We built mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms using the Flutter framework with perfect quality and performance. In this project, our state management was Redux, as it was used by the founding team engineers, and they had experience with it.
We configured and tested a couple of Firebase environments for development, testing and production. Created a set of security rules for Firebase to protect the data along with a set of security rules tests to ensure that they cover every possible scenario of how users can interact with the platform.
Our team configured a two-sided platform inside Stripe. We made custom integration using Firebase Cloud Functions between Firebase and Stripe (now Stripe has a special extension for Firebase that can speed up development even more).
Prototypes, not presentations
Advertise a freight request and have your goods delivered quicker and cheaper using the Fluxx geolocational algorithm to match your delivery with a peer travelling to your location.
Subsidise your cost of travel and earn money by delivering freight to others on your route. Freight sizes are categorised, so no matter what you drive, there's something that you can carry.
Scope of the project
The task was to create a two-sided peer-to-peer general freight platform that will match the user’s freight delivery requirements with someone heading to the user’s location. To test the client’s idea, we needed to create two apps: iOS and Android.
Our main technical decisions: Flutter, Firebase and Stripe.
Why Flutter?
- The single code base for all platforms
Gives an opportunity to build, test and deploy mobile applications for different platforms from a single codebase.
- Application performance
Great performance because it compiles native code. While other cross-platform frameworks do not compile and/or have other restrictions that directly affect application performance.
- Ample UI features
Everything is a widget and it comes up with a wide variety of high-quality pre-existing widgets that can easily be added to your app and create visually appealing apps that that most of the users like.
- Google Maps integration
Google Maps has 99% coverage of the world and 1 billion monthly active users. That’s why we chose this map provider. With the Flutter plugin that provides a Google Maps widget, it was allowed to integrate it in no time.
- Backend-as-a-service
Firebase is the BaaS that provided us the possibility to not implement essential features like Authentication, Data storage, database, and push notifications and don’t spend time on various environments, their management, and scaling. So we didn’t need a separate backend team and fully concentrated on the Frontend part.
- Integrations
Firebase provides a feature-rich client for Flutter that is easy to use and integrate. It gives a possibility to connect Flutter with all the services we needed: Cloud Firestore, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Cloud Firestore
We used Cloud Firestore because it’s a scalable database that allows real-time data exchange and data subscriptions for reactive UI updates.
- Authentication
Firebase offers a simple and quick authentication process that allowed us to integrate authentication in our apps via Facebook, Google, and email sign-in.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging
This feature helps to configure push notifications on both platforms (Android and iOS) and implement important and necessary notifications such as informing about the acceptance of the request, successful completion of the order, and payment for it.
- Quality and Reliable Reputation
Stripe is one of the leading solutions for internet payments worldwide. During the last few years over 100k businesses in Australia started using Stripe to proceed with their payment process. It’s one of the very few platforms that provides the possibility to create a two-sided peer-to-peer platform.
- Payment methods integration
Allowed to accept cards (and potentially Apple Pay/Google Pay), and securely store payment data to make payments easily.
- Two-sided payments
Stripe provides conditions under which the application collects payment and pays out only after a successfully completed order.
Deliveries
We built mobile apps for iOS and Android platforms using the Flutter framework with perfect quality and performance. In this project, our state management was Redux, as it was used by the founding team engineers, and they had experience with it.
We configured and tested a couple of Firebase environments for development, testing and production. Created a set of security rules for Firebase to protect the data along with a set of security rules tests to ensure that they cover every possible scenario of how users can interact with the platform.
Our team configured a two-sided platform inside Stripe. We made custom integration using Firebase Cloud Functions between Firebase and Stripe (now Stripe has a special extension for Firebase that can speed up development even more).
Launch Success
Fluxx became a notable phenomenon in regional Australia: the mass media wrote several articles about it and, without any marketing efforts, the project's page on social networks received about 2 thousand fans in a short time. The demand was so great that in geo expansion we added 80 new towns.
With Fluxx, we had an opportunity to help to test the idea of people getting their freight faster, cheaper, and earning while they travel.
We took full advantage of Flutter, Firebase, and Stripe for the creation of a new way of dealing with freight. They showed that they work well together and we did not have any special problems with technology in the implementation of this task.
Such use of novel technical frameworks proved startups can build MVP quickly and effectively without any major issues.
As a result of our work, the Fluxx platform presented a new way how people can deal with the freight delivery industry in Australian regions.
Metrics
Metrics is a set of software components to collect and review software project metrics like performance, build stability, and codebase quality.
Success!
Or Just Say Hello
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Capella, Queensland
"Thanks Fluxx!! I was able to keep working while waiting for the parts to turn up. Making my customer happy. I didn’t have to wait until the public holiday was over either. Quick and easy!! Less downtime!!"
Cassilis, New South Wales
"What a great service. Thank you, Fluxx. Deliver a parcel for someone from one location to another. A great way to help pay for a trip."