Kabooodle
A direct sales SaaS I created for my wife in 2016, to help her manage her direct sales inventory, client purchases, and associated shipping labels. Launched closed private beta within 6 months.
Merchant Account Login details: thehoff/testing1234
Basic Account Login details: steveperry/testing1234
Reminder: The objective of this project was to rapidly prototype solutions to a problem. Direction and ideas changed and evolved quickly.
Note: This project is currently inactive and there are known bugs :)
Project Highlights:
- Custom claiming system
- Payment gateway for handling shipping charges and invoices
- Custom shipping and sales receipts
- USPS shipping integration with label creation, tracking
- SMS Notifications
- Custom listings to Facebook and self-hosted Flashsales
- 'Like' and 'Watch' items
- Referral and rewards system
- Custom sales analytics
- Facebook integration
- Direct messaging system
- Inventory grouping (build outfits with your existing inventory)
Technologies:
- LEMP (Ubuntu, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 7.0)
- Laravel 5.x MVC Framework
- Pusherapp - websocket, realtime push notifications
- Postmarkapp - SMTP transactional emails
- Facebook API integration
- Shippo - validating mailing addresses, shipping creation/tracking
- Vue/x - Frontend javascript components
- Async queues with over 25 pipelines
- Keen.io: Track user and sale analytics
- AWS EC2 - Custom AMI instances, multizone
- AWS EC2 bastion - tunneling into system remote
- AWS S3 - File storage with IA for thumbnails
- AWS ELB - Public facing Load Balancer
- AWS LAMBDA - Image thumbnail creation, file manipulation
- AWS SQS - Cron task runner
- AWS Cloudfront - CDN for all assets
- AWS RDS - MariaDB, multizones
- AWS ElastiCache - Redis cluster, multizone
- AWS VPC - All services behind VPC private subnets