Migrating a cutting-edge film marketplace to up-to-date technologies

Industry

Company Profile

Slated is an online film packaging and financing marketplace, matching projects with talent, financing, and distribution. Since launching in 2012, Slated’s community has grown to 50,000 producers, writers, directors, actors, investors, sales agents, and distributors. In 2020, 66% of Academy Award nominated films and 80% of Sundance films were made by Slated members.
Project Goals

- Provide frontend migration from Django Templates to Angular 10

- Perform API integrations and e-commerce functionalities

- Create an internal messaging system
Business Need

Apply a whole new approach in order to simplify the application development process and get current functionality more interactive.

Develop an integrated messaging system for users and projects in order to provide quick communication within the website. The client asked to perform it with no cost of resources and as soon as possible

Initially, the messaging system was presented by Django and worked as a mail. In other words, users had to refresh a page so that they could see the inbox updates. After investigating 3 possible solutions, we chose Firebase. This way Solvd developer integrated the new solution into the existing website and the messaging system became a live chat
Eliminate time expenditures and difficulties in operating with pages caused by outdated technologies and legacy code diversity (70% Django, 30% AngularJS)

The whole logic of operating with Django and Angular pages was reworked. We resolved conflicts in these parts before the project completely migrates to AngularJS. After the migration is done, we plan to remove the full refreshing while jumping between pages

Since the cooperation is ongoing we can figure out the intermediate results:

Improved emailing procedures for every platform and device
Enabled the website to interact with external APIs and render data to be compatible with them

Improved emailing procedures for every platform and device
Enabled the website to interact with external APIs and render data to be compatible with them

Ann Nguyen

CTO at Slated

The Solvd team effectively blended with the internal team, aligning with its goals and priorities. They’ve consistently shown expressed their investment in the engagement through their hard work and ability to coordinate with the client’s staff. They communicate regularly to ensure satisfaction.

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