X-Forces

The project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to nurture entrepreneurial ambition in the UK military community including service leavers, veterans, military spouses and partners, reservists, cadets and children of forces by acting as a handrail to establish start-ups.

X-Forces Enterprise has supported over 1,500 entrepreneurs
to start their own businesses and helped thousands more through training, events, and mentoring provisions.

Web

Client’s location

London and Birmingham, UK

Tallium team

Project manager
Back-end developer
4 Front-end developers
Designer

Timeline

July 2019 — February 2020

The Challenges

As a social enterprise that supports budding entrepreneurs through mentoring, training, business planning advice at some time, X-Forces came up with an idea to release a specialized advanced tool for communication between mentors and members, that would become a good alternative to e-mails and messengers.
Based on X-Forces’ needs, we highlighted the key idea to create a platform that would combine social networking with user matching algorithm features and task management tools and establish an effective flow of entrepreneurial projects management.

Execution

The platform is a social network inside the X-Forces community.

Starting with quick registration and authorization through Linkedin or Facebook, the user fills out an application about his or her business ideas and interests, based on which the algorithm selects a perfect mentor for the project.

Cooperation between users is supported by various task management features. The tool helps mentors to establish milestones and tasks for a specific date and assign them to members or projects.

Communication between mentors and members goes through the online chat that includes an automated chatbot with all required system notifications. Every edit displays in the feed of the project.

Also, Knowledge Hub gives users the ability to create
private and public events within the X-Forces community
to support the business development of the military people.

The platform is a social network inside the X-Forces community.

Cooperation between users is supported by various task management features. The tool helps mentors to establish milestones and tasks for a specific date and assign them to members or projects.

Communication between mentors and members goes through the online chat that includes an automated chatbot with all required system notifications. Every edit displays in the feed of the project.

Also, Knowledge Hub gives users the ability to create
private and public events within the X-Forces community
to support the business development of the military people.

Features overview

Facebook and LinkedIn authorization

Users matching algorithm

Task management
and milestones management

Online chat between users

Chatbot, system
notifications and project feed

Creation of public
and private events

Knowledge base

Facebook and LinkedIn authorization

Users matching algorithm

Task management and milestones management

Online chat between users

Chatbot, system notifications and project feed

Creation of public and private events

Knowledge base

Technology stack

We implemented a complicated business logic on the server side and enabled continuous delivery. Our CI server builds the system and runs a full suite of unit and integration tests against every commit. We integrated the app with PaymentIQ, a specific payment platform for the iGaming industry, and designed complex game mechanics to make betting more fun and exciting.

Technologies

PHP

JavaScript

Redux

Socket.IO

Laravel

React

Bitbucket

PostgreSQL

Docker

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Tallium Inc. has demonstrated strong project management skills and a communicative mindset. They've established development benchmarks throughout the project and has met each one so far. Early users have started using the platform, and initial results show promise.

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