Tikr
An online store built on Spree with realtime price changes, a custom Rails backend, and a responsive storefront.
TiKR was a Draper, Utah e-commerce startup from former eBay engineers where listed prices moved with supply and demand every few seconds, with a price-history graph beside each product and the tagline "buy low, save high." The company filed a dynamic-pricing patent in 2012 while the storefront headed toward a public beta.
I worked across a Ruby on Rails and Spree stack on Heroku with PostgreSQL, mostly on the storefront and on customizing the backend that drove those realtime price updates and social-share incentives on listings.
Achievements
- Built a dynamic pricing engine on Spree and Ruby on Rails.
- Implemented realtime price changes across the storefront.
- Tuned backend performance on Heroku with PostgreSQL.
Link: http://tikr.com
Stack: Ruby on Rails, Heroku, PostgreSQL,
Experience: Frontend