KickConnect is finally official! I purchased the domain name kickConnect.NET! The .com was not available unfortunately, but I will be keeping an eye out for it.

Getting it to resolve with ElasticBeanstalk was more difficult than I would have liked it to be, but that is the story of my life with anything AWS. When is a cloud provider going to make an easy button for this stuff? But alas, I figured it out and the site is up.

Now if you go there, all you will see is the login screen. Big whoop, right? I have to figure out how I want the public facing application to function. As eventually it will be where I host demos and allow gym/martial art studios to visit. My plan is to make it by invitation only! I was thinking of doing either screenshots or make a YouTube video showcasing the new features and functionality of it. I’d be interested to hear other suggestions. I just don’t want a bunch of people adding stuff that I will eventually have to clean up.

I was looking at the road map from Nov 11th and I wanted to see the progress that I’ve made (hopefully):

What’s the Road map (11/11/2024)…

  • Profiles DONE!
  • Class Assignments DONE!
  • HTML-Template Customization -> WORK IN PROGRESS
  • Component Management
    • Ability to turn on and off components for users
  • Member Portal
  • Member Tables and Date Input
  • Importing existing data
  • Phone Apps
  • Communication ability

  • Shopify

  • AWS Architecture
    • Lambdas
    • API Gateway
    • Containers
    • Deployments

I’m pleased that the Profiles and the ability to Assign classes/events to Coaches is complete! In some ways it was easier than I thought, because I was able to share code and use the framework already built for the Scheduling of classes/events.

The HTML Template Customization tool is a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. Not only is there a lot of functionality that I’m building into it, but making it UI friendly is very important to me. What’s the point of having a wiz-bang utility if it is super complicated to use resulting in less use? That is taking some time to figure out… But I am making some good progress. This weekend I spent a bit of time making the code base a little easier to read and I was able to add some functionality as well. More to come on that!

As I wrap up the next feature on the list I’m trying to figure out the next feature to work on. I really want to start the Member portal, but I want to make sure that I have everything I need for the Admin side 1st. Is it the Admin Component Management or is it the Shopify integration? The fact of the matter is, once this goes live and I have customers it will get difficult to add new features as I will be fixing bugs and getting a list of enhancements as well.

I don’t really have too much more to add in the roadmap for right now. My progress has slowed as I have a full time job, that I’m really enjoying. But I am continuing to enjoy working on the application. I’m really looking forward to starting what ever is next.

More to come!