When I graduated from coding school, my brother, who owns an air conditioning business, came up to me with a business proposal.
The proposal was to create an app that would make running the business easy for employees and customers.
He left me to be as creative as possible and gave me a timeline of five months. The proposal included a very handsome pay depending on whether his board of directors would like the unit. I first had to consider what the customer would gain from the app. We wanted the customer to be able to schedule any air conditioning service through the app and effectively receive feedback from the cooling workman from the company. I also wanted the air conditioning experts to receive any air conditioning tune-up request as soon as the customer clicked send. The point of the app was to make operations straightforward and as efficient as possible. The cooling product requests from the customers would be arranged in order of priority on the side of the cooling techs so that it is easier to assign the different jobs to the available technicians. For instance, the high-priority requests would be air conditioning repairs, and air conditioning installs. The app would also provide an information portal where customers would find information to help them better maintain and operate quality air conditioners. Some of the information on the site would be how to change the air filters found on indoor air cleaning systems and central air conditioning units. My team and I worked on the app for the HVAC unit business, and within three months, it was ready. The board of directors loved it and paid us handsomely for it.