StartupFairy

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1. Startup Fairy Addy Kim, Cameron Reynoldson, Ajmal Khan, Stas Ilinskiy, Madeline Stager, Marcus Cruz, Eugene Ng
2. Models
3. API • Crunchbase • AngelList no longer gives out API keys • External API to grab individual or all information about ◦Cities, Companies, Financial investors ◦People relevant to any of above • Internal API for search
4. Tools • Digital Ocean Droplet • Flask Backend • React Frontend ◦ Griddle - Tabling + pagination ◦ Wrote own search pagination • Bower/NPM • Docker ◦ Local PostgresDB ◦ Running the flask app
5. Search • Back-end • Inverted Index • Script to populate table • Search function that parses query • Returns a mapping of model to display to the tokens that matched to that model
6. Search • Front-End • Search Bar • Parse JSON returned from route • Interactivity with React
7. Challenges • Work and time management • Work distribution • Unequal levels of knowledge about tools used • Platform/OS specific problems • Getting DB data on Docker container (alternative: SSH onto droplet to do DB work) • Estimating workload
8. Things that Puzzle Us • Refactoring React • React documentation is a mess • Not beginner friendly • Debugging was difficult and required installing a chrome extension
9. Successes • Completed it ;) • Distributed workload better for last phase • Documentation
10. Improvements • Embed Google Maps to City pages • Members take more initiative • Polish design sitewide • Implement more features • Improvements to search (filters, etc) • Comparison between companies
11. Demo
12. SWEdish Fish intersweller.me
13. Critique • What did they do well? • Site looks very sleek • Lots of attention to detail (star chart!) • Results load pretty quickly (without caching) • What did we learn? • Over 200 stars (at least) hotter than our sun! • What can they do better? • Background image • Huge lists in some models • No quick way to get to a far page • What puzzles us about their website? • Page crashes on arbitrary page numbers when clicking through results
14. Questions