Business Requirements
No longer do you have to subscribe to multiple newspapers, search the web for death notices in multiple cities or search out funeral home websites to find the obits that are important to you.
Funeral Obituary App notifies you of the posting of any obituaries from your selected list of cities or contacts. You can receive alerts for obituaries in the city where you grew up, went to school, worked or currently reside - as many cities as you wish to follow.
Technologies Used
Ionic 2
Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co. in 2013.
Node.js
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser
MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system. Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter, and "SQL".
Mongo DB
MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schema
Python
Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace.
Overview
Funeral Obituary App is an application that shows obituaries on your home feed based on your preferences which include your followed cities and contacts. The obituaries are ingested into the system by scraping them from funeral home websites. The app lets you mark an obituary as favorite and add it to your Memory Wall or share it on Facebook.
Key Challenges
- Collect recent and decade-old obituaries from thousands of funeral homes websites.
- Extraction of meaningful information from the obituaries and populate the fields
- User’s ability to follow their contacts on Facebook and phone .
Solution
- Scrape Obituaries from funeral homes websites and ingest those into the system.
- Natural language processing to extract the data from the obituaries ingested and populated the blob.
- Allow the users to sync their Facebook and phone contacts to get notified if any of those names appear in any obituary.
Development Process
Envision
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Explore
Create a release plan and review the alternatives to the execution. It is the transitional phase.
Retire
Write up the project's key lessons and closeout the previous versions of the software or other project components.
Construction
Outlines the project requirements and identifies the major milestones of the project.
Production
Review the results of the transitional phase. Assess the current situation and performance of the project results.
Mobile App Screens
Mobile app screens have been designed keeping in mind the latest design trends and aesthetics giving the user a pleasant experience.
Web App Screens
Mobile responsive web app screens with customized themes matching the app design
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