HomePort is a comprehensive EdTech application designed for mariners, including navigators and engineers. It serves as an essential information source based on good seamanship practices of working seafarers, aimed at enhancing knowledge and providing necessary tools for seafarers' life.

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Goals and Solutions 🌟

The primary objective was to create an app that aids sailors in improving their professional knowledge and skills. HomePort includes features like article flow, job interview simulations, contract and port visit tracking, and various calculation tools necessary for routine maritime work.
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Results for the Customer 🎯

The HomePort app has become a valuable resource for seafarers, providing them with an efficient way to access information, improve skills, and manage their professional lives more effectively.

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Business Challenges 📊

The project faced challenges in optimizing Firestore requests for better data manipulation and improving map performance, including smoother zooming and rendering.

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Results Obtained 📈

HomePort successfully addressed the unique educational and operational needs of sailors, offering a comprehensive suite of tools and resources to support their careers.

👉 Interview imitation: users can listen to audio questions, from a real interview and answer them. Also, text-based answers and questions are available.

👉 Offline mode: Users can continue using all app features offline. If users input data in the offline mode and after becomes online, all data will be synced with DataBase.

👉 Tools to improve routine: Users can use 10+ tools for sailors to improve their work routine. Such as: ETA, Squat, Drafts - calculations, Interpolation, Tick visited Ports and Countries, and Calculate days to end a contract.

👉 Subscription: to offer a revenue stream for the app by allowing users to subscribe to premium content. This can help generate a consistent income and support the maintenance and further development of the app.

👉 Article search: empowers users to quickly and efficiently search for specific articles or content within the application. Users can retrieve targeted results by entering relevant keywords, making finding the information they need easier. This feature enhances the overall user experience by saving time and providing a convenient way to navigate and explore a vast library of articles content.

👉 Dark/Light reading mode: allows users to customize the appearance of the application or platform based on their preferred reading environment. Users can optimize their visual comfort and readability by toggling between dark and light themes, especially during extended reading sessions.

👉 Tick on the map: enables users to select countries on a map interface to designate visited ports.

👉 Calculation actions: provides users with built-in interactive tools to perform various calculations or computations within the application. This feature empowers users to perform complex calculations accurately and efficiently.

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👉 Optimizing the firestore requests: focuses on enhancing the performance of data manipulation from Firestore, a NoSQL document database provided by Firebase.

👉 Map performance: focuses on improving the speed, smoothness, and overall performance of map interactions, including zooming and rendering of map layers.

Front-end: React Native, Redux, Redux Saga, Firebase Auth, Mapbox GL, NetInfo, Adapty, React Native Reanimated.