<h2>Project at a glance</h2>
<p>Bookyco is the proofreading committee in the digital era, connecting authors and readers before the book enters the publishing state.</p>
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<h2>Context</h2>
<p>The book market faces many barriers to entry, notably by publishing houses that are inundated with manuscripts they cannot read, and prefer to rely on their network of authors or commission books on particular subjects because they identify a market demand.</p>
<p>The only two real innovations lie in the e-book market or in the use of influencers to sell a book that may be a clich&eacute; but is guaranteed to sell because of the author's fame. With COVID-19, many people have taken up writing and would like a chance to be published.</p>
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<h2>Process</h2>
<p>This project started as a project for my diploma as a Product Manager at OpenClassrooms, I got the chance to interview users to test hypotheses and learn from their feedback to build a product authors would use.</p>
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<h2>Tech Stack</h2>
<p>* Webflow then Next.js</p>
<p>* Airtable, Typeform</p>

The proofreading committee in the digital era

Bookyco

<h2>Project at a glance</h2>
<p>Hugger prevents harassment in school by providing a mobile app to talk and understand what's going on.</p>
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<h2>Context</h2>
<p>Back in December 2019 at&nbsp;<a href="https://hetic.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HETIC</a>, we had two weeks dedicated to work on a project in team related to the topic "tech and human". We were a team of five friends (<a href="https://dribbble.com/Orelia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Orelia</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://constancehochberg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Constance</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nourmct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nour</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elouanbegue/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elouan</a>&nbsp;and me) and wanted a project that would be really meaningful and impactful. Two weekds to find an idea, do market research and make a working prototype.</p>
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<h2>Process</h2>
<p>If you want to discover the process, you can <a title="Read the case study" href="https://joshuatabakhoff.com/blog/case-study-building-hugger-a-tech-for-good-app-here-to-listen-and-prevent-harassment-in-school">read the case study on my website by clicking here</a> or on the button below.</p>
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<h2>Tech Stack</h2>
<p>* React Native</p>
<p>* Firebase</p>
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Prevent harassment in school.

Hugger

<h2>Project at a glance</h2>
<p>Internland aim is to help student find an internship easier than it is currently by providing a place that gathers most of the offers available out there.</p>
<p>It acts like a job board at first, but plans to be a reference in the internship world by making it more enjoyable to apply.</p>
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<h2>Context</h2>
<p>Back in Spring 2020, everybody around me was looking for an internship. Most people were facing issues such as: "where should I go?", "what platform do you use?", "it's just another boring thing, all white non-creative websites to browser". Well, I understood that there were a space for a new tool that is not "just another job board business" but rather an aggregator, like a search engine for internships. This is how Internland was born.</p>
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<h2>Process</h2>
<p>I started working on this project back in Autumn 2020, when my internship ended and I was getting more time to focus on Internland.<br />The first thing was to look after generic job boards, list them and look for their API or a different way to list their job offers on my platform. I've listed around 10 competitors that could be indexed on Internland.</p>
<p>Before writing any code, it was important to create the data structure that would be universal so all code parts could interact with each other. Basically, it was just listing what I would need, with keeping the main problem Internland was trying to address. Then, I had to write scrappers (also called <em>seekers </em>on this project<em>).</em> This is what took me the most time, few months.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The last thing was to make the website in itself. It was really fast to make, I needed help to design the whole thing and I got the perfect person in mind. I called my friend <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/constance-hochberg/">Constance Hochberg</a> to design something, she made a quick moodboard and a color palette. At this time, what we wanted was just to release the product and get feedback.</p>
<p>Two weeks after, the website was up and running.</p>
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<h2>Tech Stack</h2>
<p>* Next.js for coding the website</p>
<p>* Node.js / Puppeteer / Cheer.io for seekers</p>
<p>* Algolia for the search engine</p>
<p>* Vercel for hosting</p>

Land your perfect internship.

Internland

<h2>Project at a glance</h2>
<p>Meja was a platform to share ideas and receive feedback. It then pivoted into a Twitter bot before being totally stopped.</p>
<p>It was my first attempt at building something, MVP is opensource.</p>
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<h2>Context</h2>
<p>I always wanted to make a space for ideas, a place where everybody could just share their ideas, get fedback and maybe find someone to co-build their idea.<br />I was 17, and I started learning programming at age of 8. Back at this time, we were afraid about sharing product ideas: <em>"Somebody is going to steal our idea and build it faster with more money"</em> but after reading on Medium, we finally discovered that everybody is in the same situation and one idea leads to different products. Also, pitching to our family wasn&rsquo;t a good reaction, they were always saying <em>"Love the idea you should build this"</em> or <em>"Awesome!".</em></p>
<p>We had the idea few years later, back to the end of 2015, but didn't do nothing. Then we discovered a great product, doing quite the same thing. Sadly, it closed earlier this year and I got nothing to share my ideas and get constructive feedback so we decided to build a new product! We started a month ago with an MVP and in two weeks we built a new version of the platform.</p>
<p>Being able to find new team members or simply getting in touch with people like us, sharing their ideas, is one of the most important thing.</p>
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<h2>Process</h2>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/backoffice/storage/uploads/2021/02/09/6022b42b41b6dmeja-mvp.png" alt="" width="1541" height="866" /></p>
<p><em>Meja MVP</em></p>
<p><em><img src="/backoffice/storage/uploads/2021/02/09/6022b4433e9d1c8b659cd-0542-41a6-b76e-d4a35ae6cf34.webp" alt="" width="662" height="380" /></em></p>
<p><em>First real version of the platform</em></p>
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<h2>Tech Stack</h2>
<p>* Node.js for the API</p>
<p>* AngularJS for the website</p>
<p>* PHP for the MVP</p>

Pitch your idea, get feedback. Know what to build.

Meja

<h2>Project at a glance</h2>
<p>Footr's technology for roadtrippers &mdash; available on the web.</p>
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<h2>Context</h2>
<p>Placeez was a by-product of <a href="https://joshuatabakhoff.com/works/walk">Footr</a>. Where Footr was designed for walking, Placeez was designed to augment your roadtrip with monuments nearby your path.</p>
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<h2>Tech Stack</h2>
<p>* Node.js for the API</p>
<p>* Native JavaScript for the website</p>
<p>* PHP for the MVP</p>

Your normal route augmented with monuments.

Placeez

<h2>Project at a glance</h2>
<p>Walk is the perfect way for you to generate a walk according to your free time. Enter your time, we do the rest. Discover monuments and other venues near you, share your walk with your friend and get back to where you started without delay.</p>
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<h2>Context</h2>
<p>In 2017, I moved to another city and had two hours free. As I didn&rsquo;t know this new city, I wanted to discover what was around but found no app really interesting. Walk is for all digital nomads and walkers around the world who wants to discover monuments around their current location</p>
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<h2>Process</h2>
<p>At first, the app started during the <a class="fl jg" href="https://www.producthunt.com/hackathon" rel="noopener nofollow">Product Hunt Global Hackathon</a> so timeline is large.<br /><strong class="hv ip">Early 2017</strong>, I shared the idea on Pitchard/Meja (not the same site/team, <a class="fl jg" href="https://medium.com/@satwaya/dont-reinvent-the-wheel-oil-it-a97aac901588" rel="noopener">learn more here</a>). <br />Nothing until <strong class="hv ip">last week of October 2017</strong>, we decided to write specifications, design a logo and a prototype <em class="iq">(thanks Marvel App!)</em> just before hackathon starts. <br />The major part comes here: <strong class="hv ip">01.11</strong>, Time to hack! We started working on our algorithm (let&rsquo;s call it Pathfinder) and discovered the <a class="fl jg" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem" rel="noopener nofollow">Traveling Salesman Problem</a>. Next, we had to learn how works the <a class="fl jg" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees" rel="noopener nofollow">accuracy of lat/long</a> to save in database not too much and not too less accuracy. <br /><strong class="hv ip">A week later</strong>, we&rsquo;ve setup the <a class="fl jg" href="https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/walk/" rel="noopener nofollow">Upcoming Page</a> and decided we would <a class="fl jg" href="https://twitter.com/getwalkapp" rel="noopener nofollow">live-tweet</a> the progress.<br /><strong class="hv ip">Nearly half of the hackathon</strong>, we decided we had to pivot (that&rsquo;s when we moved from Ionic app to web-app). At this point, we discovered a part of algorithm wasn&rsquo;t working perfectly so <a class="fl jg" href="https://www.samuelprak.fr/" rel="noopener nofollow">Samuel</a> rewrote it <em class="iq">(at its current version).<br /></em><strong class="hv ip">Three days before the end of the hackathon</strong>, we registered the <a class="fl jg" href="https://walk.cafe/" rel="noopener nofollow">domain name</a> and prepared for early access. <br /><strong class="hv ip">On 29 November </strong>we thought we were ready but accuracy of POI had nothing to do with monuments but rather shops.<br />Finally, on <strong class="hv ip">16 February 2018</strong>, we&rsquo;re finally ready <em class="iq">(quite, we missed 3rd March </em>😁<em class="iq">)</em>&hellip; Walk is launching, on <strong class="hv ip">8th March 2018 </strong>Walk is finally in half-private beta! 🎉<br /><strong>After few months</strong>, we decided that mobile apps would be easier to use than a webapp and <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/walk">launched on Product Hunt</a> on <strong>May 3rd, 2019</strong>. We got great feedback (and few launch issues that were quickly addressed).<br />Finally, mid-2020, I decided to stop working on this project because I hadn't enough motivation for it. You can learn more about this on the blog.</p>
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<h2>Tech Stack</h2>
<p>* MVP (webapp): HTML, CSS, JavaScript</p>
<p>* Node.js and APIs (Foursquare, Mapbox, Wikipedia Heritage API)</p>
<p>* Mobile apps: Swift, React Native</p>

Joshua Tabakhoff

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