Bidjobber
Our most recent large work is Bidjobber — a marketplace / bidding project for U.S. market
(in home building / construction / renovation niche).
This online business service network is designed to simplify the bid management process between consumers and residential and commercial contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturers, renovation companies and Realtors.
This application is released as a public Beta. You can have a look at it’s description, screenshots, features list and video presentations at it’s promo website: http://bidjobber.com/
Feel free to give it a try by signing up at: http://app.bidjobber.com/
Project Story
The founder of Bidjobber.com is a construction veteran with approximately 30 years of Construction Development & Architectural Design experience. His mission while developing Bidjobber.com was to create a simple yet powerful web based application to assist the building community with the vertical construction process. Realizing that not all companies work alike, he has developed this site with the components of a true application that can be customized to match your office standards.
Bidjobber.com represents a breakthrough for General Contractors, Sub-Contractors, Suppliers, Service Providers and Homeowners; giving them a powerful set of tools to facilitate the bid-management process, find new work, acquire material quotes and ensure the best possible service for the best possible price.
Bidjobber.com works as a streamlined system with four major steps:
- General Contractors or Building Owners post their project and/or material quote requests.
- Subcontractors, Suppliers and Service Providers are notified of a project and/or material quote request when it falls within their trade preferences.
- Subcontractors, Suppliers and Service Providers view project information, plans, specs, etc. online and submit a bid or estimate.
- General Contractors or Building Owners are notified of a new bid/estimate and select the winning bid or network with providers to discuss project details.
In addition, members can search through jobs, post to the Bidjobber.com classifieds, network with other contractors and sub-contractors. All of this can be accomplished with the convenience of their computer or handheld device.
Bidjobber.com essentially combines the elements of several bid sites, networking sites, and construction classifieds into one easy-to-use online program – thus streamlining the bid process, saving time and money, and reducing the need for printed materials.
Project Technology
- The technology is based on CodeIgniter php framework and MySQL database engine. Jquery is used for JS effects and Ajax.
- The choice of CodeIgniter as our main technological platform has given us the flexibility we needed while keeping the high load speed and minimum use of server resources;
- Additionally, we have developed two custom libraries to extend it with highly important features:
“Layout” library to allow making use of powers of modular features within MVC architecture,
And “Former” library to handle the process of Forms submission and Validation.
- Additionally, we have developed two custom libraries to extend it with highly important features:
- Construction projects submission, searching, viewing, bookmarking;
- Zip-code distance calculation technology allows subscribing to projects within N miles radius from user’s zip code;
- Complex projects bidding/auction system implemented;
- Member and company profiles with social media integration, portfolio and testimonials;
- Social features: networking, activity tracking within network;
- Live Chat system (a-la Facebook chat);
- Calendar system build-in, to allow managing / keeping track of construction projects workflow, arranging meetings and assigning tasks (a-la Google Calendar), iCal and Excel export features;
- Versatile classifieds system with different sets of fields for different classifieds categories;
- Photo blogging and Q&A systems;
- Customized RSS feeds and e-mail subscriptions to anything you can imagine;
- Private Messaging with attachments feature;
- Paid memberships and features;
- Advertising management technology with user balance system built-in to allow automatic management and launch of contextual and highly targeted advertising campaigns;
- Integrated with Paypal for payment processing;
- Admin backend allows to do all the needed things;
- Inappropriate content flagging and moderation;
- WordPress is used to power Bidjobber promo website.
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