We are NOT looking for additional coding help (at least at this point).  Our team is so busy building a research and collaboration platform for PhD-level academics that we want to help them out by getting your initial design recommendations that meet our needs.

We ARE looking for initial consulting help in implementing five functionalities to work with our proprietary content aggregation algorithm.  What are the “optimal" plug-ins or integrations of third-party apps or UI library components or whatever we should use?  Note:  we are not looking for custom solutions to be coded from scratch.

Criteria we mean by saying “optimal” include functionality, ease of integration, ease of maintenance, overall cost (both acquisition and operating costs), ease of use, UI customization (fonts, colors) and libraries, etc.

Our architecture employs NextJS (v14), Flask, and MongoDB.  Your recommendations must integrate seamlessly with this architecture and, above all, be simple, scalable, intuitive to the user and “optimal.”  You need to be technically expert and truly understand the need for our selections to work seamlessly with the underlying software architecture.  

We need to display (our site will provide the content, but we need apps, plug-ins, UI components, whatever with simple, intuitive and scalable format and features):

1. Discussions (like Reddit)
2. Private chats (like Slack)
3. Events (like EventBrite)
4. Jobs (like so many job sites)
5. Learning management system (or a learning module—that is, a way to display an organized collection of content)

The deliverable we will ask of you is a short recommendation memo with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis for each of the five functionalities.  It will be important that you include information on all relevant criteria (including, but you should add more): (1) why you make your recommendations, (2) cost information and issues, (3) potential coding/integration issues of which we should be aware, (4) potential deployment issues, etc.  Again, please note that we are not looking for custom solutions.

Posted On: March 23, 2024 12:21 UTC
Category: Full Stack Development
Skills:Python, Web Design Plugin, Integration Framework

Country: United States

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