Some ideas are truly one of a kind or at least, one in a million. Fetching, to us, is one of those bold ideas that comes from pure necessity that was observed in the day to day life.
The free app to manage the school run amongst your friends and family.
Fetching is a UK-based app, the “Uber” for busy parents that need to manage their children's school runs among friends and family.
For example, say your child is at school and you should pick them up soon, but something at work is keeping you overtime and it’s pretty urgent. Of course, without this app, you’d just excuse yourself, pack your things, and go, because nothing is more important that picking up your child from school and being there for them. But, what if we were to tell you that there’s an app that allows you to ask another parent, someone that you trust, to pick your child too and take them home?
This is exactly what Fetching does. You can request a friend, another parent, someone you know and trust to either drop your child off to school, or pick your child up from school or practice.
Another important feature that you have access to is requesting dog dates. Say you’re off for a few days or for the weekend and you need someone to take care of your furry friend. Someone that you trust that’s also on the app can help you with that and have your dog over to their place until you come back.
When the conversations started between us and Fetching, there were some ideas and some drawings of what could become wireframes. The platform and everything that came afterwards was created through a team effort.
We always love a good challenge and given the sensitive subjects that Fetching deals with, we had to make sure that app is as safe as possible for the kids and pets, not only from a technical standpoint but also from a process perspective.
The first challenge that we had was the most obvious one, creating an app that’s viable for pick-up and drop-off, but also, involving school and creating partnerships with them. Needless to say, it would be quite difficult to create such a system without the school’s awareness. The schools need to see a full, real-time report of everything that’s going on. Who dropped whom, and who picked up whom.
A huge challenge was the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve started the project in 2019 and nothing of the magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic has crossed our minds. That meant, schools shutting down and children learning from home–meaning, the ‘need’ for our app suddenly disappeared.
But we adapted, as we always do. We offered our input from a business perspective, to keep Fetching relevant during the pandemic and we quickly adapted the features based on the restrictions that were imposed by the government. This way, kids could still ride safely, with all the safety measures taken.
Fetching includes all types of development–we have a mobile app, with backend and frontend servers for schools, a single language with different framework and an end to end solution that works.
We’ve implemented the live sockets updates which means that both the school and the parents receive updates from the user or one another in order to keep everyone aware about the child’s whereabouts.
We’ve also integrated a UK database from a tool that shows all the schools in the UK and integrated their API’s and school’s data into the app. But if a parent enters the app and wants to sign up, they can also propose a new school and add it manually.
When you add it manually, you actually create a request that goes to the school’s email. After they are requested to register, the school’s administrator analyzes the request and chooses whether or not to integrate it with their system. We created this system in which the school is involved in the process in order to avoid duplicates or hacks. So, even though it is not completely digital and rapid, it is the most bullet proof solution in order to comply with the number one priority, the safety of the children.
When the conversations started between us and Fetching, there were some ideas and some drawings of what could become wireframes. The platform and everything that came afterwards was created through a team effort.
We always love a good challenge and given the sensitive subjects that Fetching deals with, we had to make sure that app is as safe as possible for the kids and pets, not only from a technical standpoint but also from a process perspective.
The first challenge that we had was the most obvious one, creating an app that’s viable for pick-up and drop-off, but also, involving school and creating partnerships with them. Needless to say, it would be quite difficult to create such a system without the school’s awareness. The schools need to see a full, real-time report of everything that’s going on. Who dropped whom, and who picked up whom.
A huge challenge was the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve started the project in 2019 and nothing of the magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic has crossed our minds. That meant, schools shutting down and children learning from home–meaning, the ‘need’ for our app suddenly disappeared.
But we adapted, as we always do. We offered our input from a business perspective, to keep Fetching relevant during the pandemic and we quickly adapted the features based on the restrictions that were imposed by the government. This way, kids could still ride safely, with all the safety measures taken.
Fetching includes all types of development–we have a mobile app, with backend and frontend servers for schools, a single language with different framework and an end to end solution that works.
We’ve implemented the live sockets updates which means that both the school and the parents receive updates from the user or one another in order to keep everyone aware about the child’s whereabouts.
We’ve also integrated a UK database from a tool that shows all the schools in the UK and integrated their API’s and school’s data into the app. But if a parent enters the app and wants to sign up, they can also propose a new school and add it manually.
When you add it manually, you actually create a request that goes to the school’s email. After they are requested to register, the school’s administrator analyzes the request and chooses whether or not to integrate it with their system. We created this system in which the school is involved in the process in order to avoid duplicates or hacks. So, even though it is not completely digital and rapid, it is the most bullet proof solution in order to comply with the number one priority, the safety of the children.
When the conversations started between us and Fetching, there were some ideas and some drawings of what could become wireframes. The platform and everything that came afterwards was created through a team effort.
We always love a good challenge and given the sensitive subjects that Fetching deals with, we had to make sure that app is as safe as possible for the kids and pets, not only from a technical standpoint but also from a process perspective.
The first challenge that we had was the most obvious one, creating an app that’s viable for pick-up and drop-off, but also, involving school and creating partnerships with them. Needless to say, it would be quite difficult to create such a system without the school’s awareness. The schools need to see a full, real-time report of everything that’s going on. Who dropped whom, and who picked up whom.
A huge challenge was the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve started the project in 2019 and nothing of the magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic has crossed our minds. That meant, schools shutting down and children learning from home–meaning, the ‘need’ for our app suddenly disappeared.
But we adapted, as we always do. We offered our input from a business perspective, to keep Fetching relevant during the pandemic and we quickly adapted the features based on the restrictions that were imposed by the government. This way, kids could still ride safely, with all the safety measures taken.
Fetching includes all types of development–we have a mobile app, with backend and frontend servers for schools, a single language with different framework and an end to end solution that works.
We’ve implemented the live sockets updates which means that both the school and the parents receive updates from the user or one another in order to keep everyone aware about the child’s whereabouts.
We’ve also integrated a UK database from a tool that shows all the schools in the UK and integrated their API’s and school’s data into the app. But if a parent enters the app and wants to sign up, they can also propose a new school and add it manually.
When you add it manually, you actually create a request that goes to the school’s email. After they are requested to register, the school’s administrator analyzes the request and chooses whether or not to integrate it with their system. We created this system in which the school is involved in the process in order to avoid duplicates or hacks. So, even though it is not completely digital and rapid, it is the most bullet proof solution in order to comply with the number one priority, the safety of the children.
When the conversations started between us and Fetching, there were some ideas and some drawings of what could become wireframes. The platform and everything that came afterwards was created through a team effort.
We always love a good challenge and given the sensitive subjects that Fetching deals with, we had to make sure that app is as safe as possible for the kids and pets, not only from a technical standpoint but also from a process perspective.
The first challenge that we had was the most obvious one, creating an app that’s viable for pick-up and drop-off, but also, involving school and creating partnerships with them. Needless to say, it would be quite difficult to create such a system without the school’s awareness. The schools need to see a full, real-time report of everything that’s going on. Who dropped whom, and who picked up whom.
A huge challenge was the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve started the project in 2019 and nothing of the magnitude of the coronavirus pandemic has crossed our minds. That meant, schools shutting down and children learning from home–meaning, the ‘need’ for our app suddenly disappeared.
But we adapted, as we always do. We offered our input from a business perspective, to keep Fetching relevant during the pandemic and we quickly adapted the features based on the restrictions that were imposed by the government. This way, kids could still ride safely, with all the safety measures taken.
Fetching includes all types of development–we have a mobile app, with backend and frontend servers for schools, a single language with different framework and an end to end solution that works.
We’ve implemented the live sockets updates which means that both the school and the parents receive updates from the user or one another in order to keep everyone aware about the child’s whereabouts.
We’ve also integrated a UK database from a tool that shows all the schools in the UK and integrated their API’s and school’s data into the app. But if a parent enters the app and wants to sign up, they can also propose a new school and add it manually.
When you add it manually, you actually create a request that goes to the school’s email. After they are requested to register, the school’s administrator analyzes the request and chooses whether or not to integrate it with their system. We created this system in which the school is involved in the process in order to avoid duplicates or hacks. So, even though it is not completely digital and rapid, it is the most bullet proof solution in order to comply with the number one priority, the safety of the children.
An important part of Fetching was the integration of a third party, the persona-validation system.
Given that the subject of this application is sensitive and many questions of safety arise, everyone that enters the app and registers to provide services needs to provide identification and is later verified and vetted.
An important part of Fetching was the integration of a third party, the persona-validation system.
Given that the subject of this application is sensitive and many questions of safety arise, everyone that enters the app and registers to provide services needs to provide identification and is later verified and vetted.
An important part of Fetching was the integration of a third party, the persona-validation system.
Given that the subject of this application is sensitive and many questions of safety arise, everyone that enters the app and registers to provide services needs to provide identification and is later verified and vetted.
They approach every brief with both efficiency and creativity to ensure they deliver the best experience for the user, whilst bearing in mind the time implications of each suggestion.
The team at Quickleaf have given me complete confidence that my project was in safe hands throughout. Expectations have been managed well and nothing has been too much trouble for them.
