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App that Facilitates the Return of Merchandise

Case Study: Returns on Demand

Returns On Demand and Melt Studio turned the founders’ app idea for online returns into a functional product to validate and refine for Product-Market Fit.

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THE CHALLENGE

We Needed to Create a Mobile iOS Application First

in 3 months, to be delivered to real customers and receive feedback to be able to iterate the product and find an MMP Minimum Marketable Product.

INITIAL STATE

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OUR SOLUTION

The first step in this project was to develop a prototype of the consumer application.

Requirements

Simplification

This technology stack avoids the risk of high-cost development teams and high-speed development, by keeping the requirements in skills simple.

Application

Building

For this, we built an application using React Native/Expo and a simple Firebase backend to create an initial iOS app allowing users to initiate the returns.

Prototype

Release

After the initial prototype release, we created a simple admin system using React, keeping the whole platform in Javascript/Typescript. Over time we have also released the application to Android users.

DELIVER STATE

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CUSTOMER FEEDBACK

There have been multiple improvements

The first one is a Gmail integration allowing users to import purchases directly from their email. This required an audit from Google to ensure security practices in handling people's data. The audit was performed by a partner of Google in close collaboration with the melt development team and successfully passed.

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Brandon Gonzalez

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SemGraph

Exceptionally high skill and little oversight required, which at the moment allows me to work on other parts of the project. The engineers are self-starters and take initiative on their own. I really look forward to working long-term with you all

March 18, 2021

Sang Seo

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Truvle

hi juan, wanted to drop a note, i think luis has really stepped up, he's meeting my expectations especially over the last week. will keep monitoring but this is really promising. in other news, wanted to leave feedback for the dev team, hans, oscar, and sebastian have been absolute superstars. i've never worked with a group of guys who are so good about executing good quality code aligned to business expectations. when i don't have to touch the SDLC constantly and almost have too little to do for a project i know the team is proactive. please let them know they're doing great. off the back of this, i work for another company that is seeking an initial exploration into moving away from eastern europe in their current engagement, would love to have a discussion with you about that company's needs as well. 4 person team + pm. we are only just barely getting started with exploring the idea of changing the team but i thought i'd throw it your way as a heads up for possibility.

July 12, 2024

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