The Skills is an educational platform that produces and distributes online lessons from the world’s top athletes like Michael Phelps, Maria Sharapova, and Shaun White collecting payments with end-users for a subscription.
The company was founded in California in 2019 and currently provides over 200 online lessons for nine sports courses.
Product: online sports education platform
The scope of our work: full-cycle development
Website: https://theskills.com
Our client aimed to expand their product with a number of features including:
When we first started working with the client, they already had an integrated payment system, Stripe. The Sloboda Studio team extended the Stripe payment feature on the Skills website to make it possible to do payment transactions from different countries.
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We also implemented various payment mechanisms that enable the Skills to:
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There was a difficulty with the query-display effect because some vital information (discounts, promo codes, etc) was stored in Stripe. If the discount needed to be deleted, there was no instant integration with the system, but a request for a Stripe came. We optimized this system to get an instant response.
Our devs created an admin dashboard for managing the internal company’s process. We used Active Admin, a Ruby on Rails plugin, that generates administration-style interfaces.
We made it possible for admins to:
Our experts built a dashboard with analytical functionality that automatically provides statistics in the dashboard showing:
The Active Admin panel actively interacts with the site and the database, giving access for administrators to all the necessary information.
Our team helped with the design and layout of the main page, existing and new course pages.
We also assisted with page markup using Slider for courses that depend on the screen size on various devices. Our team made theme customization that was already purchased.
Our client used the Brightcove service to run the video, but we enriched it with a custom feature to start playback from the last viewing moment.
Our mobile development team implemented a mobile application starting from the full-cycle development to publication in stores. The first challenge was to update Brightcove SDK. It was crucial to renovate the native part and the bridge for iOS and Android using Swift and Java.
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The features we implemented within a mobile app were the following:
Courses Section
User Profile
Settings
Notifications
Our team of web, mobile, and QA experts helped the Skills to:
At the end of October 2020, our client raised $4,9 million and continues to grow.
February 2020 - July, 2022
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