Our Success Story

“The most impressive thing was Savvycom satisfied requirements we expected our outsource company to be in terms of culture communication, skillsets and a desired partnership. I really don’t look at as I’m dealing with a vendor but a partner. ”

Mr. David Cheng, the founder of iHeartLocal

Linkage between businesses and consumers

http://iheartlocal.com

Customers are the most important people to any business. Especially in startup stage, entrepreneurs should bear in mind that building relationship with customer is the key to a success and growth. Research has shown that 50% small businesses could not survive the first year due to their lack of customer insights.

New Way To Approach Customers

To resolve the abovementioned problem, in 2013, a group of passionate people from Zaka, an earliest company software came up with a mobile app that helps small businesses connect their customers was. At the moment, one of the key challenges was to find a right outsourcing partner. It took some time, but finally, Savvycom was chosen with a strategy that fits Zaka’s requirements regarding culture, communication and skillset.

“iHeartLocal” was born.

Experienced a harmonious collaboration, the team has been working together since then, and after 2 years…

Client Requirements

Create a locations hub to provide trusted reference and ratings through a mobile application.

Allow users to connect with the businesses and service providers.

Build a business ecosystem for merchants that helps them approach potential consumers while tailoring a strong bond on customer relationship.

Challenges and Solutions

CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS

Real time system

Data and information are needed to be instantly showed up and broadcasted on the network.

Large user base

iHeartLocal is predicted to serve at least 1 million users within the first year; the challenge was to develop a solution to handle enormous and expanding number of requests in the shortest time.

Rick user experience

All audience’s expectations are always listened to and followed responsively with new capabilities featured and upgraded, which leads to rapid improvements.

The app was designed and implemented with scalability from the very start. It made the system able to scale up and deal with massive growing user traffic while main-tain continuous and stable performance.

Agile Model was applied to adapt to changing circumstanceshelps the team receive the latest valuable feedbacks from users to improve the quality of application.

Apply real-time data streaming that can effectively optimize the speed of transfer-ring data between client and server.

Multi-platform compatibility

iHeartLocal was expected to be compatible with a variety of platform and operating systems.

A stack of SQLite, Java, Objective C, C++, HTML, HTML5, AngularJS and Gulp was used to build a robust application with high compatibility.

App Showcase

Signing up for iHeartLocal is quick and easy - sign up with Facebook or E-mail

to start sharing today!

SIMPLE SETUPThe function of multiple merchants function was added to help businesses manage their places.

FOLLOW FRIENDS

Create your profile and share with others your favorite local places.

CUSTOM PROFILE

Unlike massive group coupon services, iHeartLocal only delivers deals and spe-cials from places you've chosen to add.

GOODIES

Others ask you to accept anonymous reviews with questionable

motivation-iHeartLocal is different.

TRUSTED RATINGS

The iHeartLocal activity feed updates you about places, deals, friends and

referrals.

GET IN THE KNOW

Project Milestones

2014

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2015

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AUGUST

The first version of the app was released under the name “Zaka”.

The app was official launched at Orange International Street Fair with the “iHeartLocal” name.

The project was kicked off with a high level meeting between the US and Vietnamese team.

The function of multiple merchants function was added to help businesses manage their places.

Level 12, Viet A tower, Duy Tan,Hanoi, Vietnam(+84) 4 3202 9222contact@savvycomsoftware.com

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83 Devonshire Ave#1 Mountain View,CA 94043, US(+1) 408 466 7268

The Result

http://savvycomsoftware.com

This is a great social network platform that allows users to share their favorite places to their friends and acquaintances while acts as a marketing channel for businesses. iHeartLocal is predicted to serve at least 1 million users within the first year with 30% annual increase.

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