Our tech workflow at eola

Howdy,

I'm Dan, CTO of eola and I'm in charge of building our beautiful platform. I thought it was about time that we talked about what we're up to behind closed doors.

What we're doing

We've paused development on the marketplace side for now, and instead focussing on building the best booking management system out there. A way for providers to take bookings & manage them. A way to manage instructors, and a way to deal with customers. Also, a place to manage accounting, legal, administrative, and health & safety details.

We've call this project Compass. You can go check it out, and keep an eye on it as it develops over the coming months. At the time of writing it's still relatively early in the building process, but it should be eola's pièce de résistance soon enough.

How we're doing it

This is the cool bit.

Our goal is to work as closely as possible with the people who are going to use this. Every step of the crafting process intimately involves activity centres, instructors, and admin staff; to make sure that what we build solves the problems they face.

Above all, we want to craft a beautiful but simple user experience that works out the box. The way we achieve that is through carefully considered processes.

We start with an enormous amount of research, studies, and meetings.

After a bunch of talks, some hand-drawn wireframes and a shitload of coffee we end up with something like this.

After the above is created by our super-talented frontend wizard @jaicab, we sit down, discuss, iterate and improve.

Eventually, we'll decide on something, and then work on turning the concept in to an actual design that we can implement and looks pretty.

Coding time

I then whip out the laptop and get to coding the code and doing the things.

Everything is covered by a shitload of automated tests, to verify things work the way we expect them to.

Next, when something's ready to go live, we review every little line to make sure it's at a top standard.

We then launch the feature 🎉

How can I get involved?

Sign up and try it out. We don't have any monthly fees, so you can just create an account and take a look, here.