Cart-Aid Nutrition and Diet-Focused Shopping App

Type

Mobile Application Development

Industry

Health and Nutrition Technology (Grocery Shopping)

Business Challenge

Consumers face difficulties with confusing nutrition labels, fragmented solutions across meal planning, grocery shopping, and nutrition tracking apps, and a lack of integration with grocery retailers, making it hard to translate nutrition insights into purchasing decisions.

Kromeon Solution

  • Planning & Infrastructure Setup: Establish technical architecture, APIs, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, database structure, and authentication.
  • Core Platform Development: Develop React Native frontend with initial UI components and implement backend services with GraphQL API.
  • User Profiles & Shopping List Features: Implement user profile creation, dietary preference tracking, “Curation” algorithm, and caching mechanisms with Redis to optimize API response times.
  • Security & Performance Enhancements: Conduct penetration testing, ensure data compliance, optimize application load balancing, and implement end-to-end testing with Cypress.
  • Beta Testing & Deployment: Conduct closed beta testing with early adopters, gather feedback, implement final refinements, launch the MVP, and deploy into the app store.

Key Features

  • Core Platform: React Native frontend with intuitive UI/UX, serverless backend using Node.js with Firebase/AWS Lambda, secure authentication, and encrypted user data storage.

  • “Curation” Algorithm: Ranks grocery products by healthiness for all users, utilizing Nutritionix and MealMe data with UPC codes or product names.

  • Personalized Experience: Recommends alternative products based on user profiles.

  • Grocery API Integration: Seamless connection to MealMe API for real-time product data with optimized, low-latency calls.

  • User Profiles: Create and manage personalized nutrition profiles, including dietary preferences, allergies, and shopping history tracking.

  • Expanded Retailer & Delivery Integrations: API support for Shipt (MealMe dependent) and direct checkout integration with delivery partners.

  • Core Security & Performance: Encrypted data storage, cloud-based scalability with load balancing.

  • Initial Subscription Model: Monthly and annual subscription plans with a basic analytics dashboard.

  • Multi-User Shopping List: Allow multiple users under one household account, enable shared shopping lists, manage members, and create temporary lists

Technologies

  • Frontend: React Native

  • Backend: Node.js with Express, Firebase/AWS Lambda

  • API: GraphQL, MealMe API, Shipt API (MealMe dependent)

  • Database: Redis for caching

  • Testing: Cypress for end-to-end testing

  • Cloud: AWS for hosting and scalability

  • Security: Encrypted storage, OAuth 2.0

Project Scope

  • Full-cycle development of a mobile app including planning, development, testing, and deployment

Contract Type

Hybrid Fixed-Cost Model, ensuring core scope delivery within 6 months, with flexible expansion based on user demand.

Duration

6 months.