Erik Minkel

alohalawns

Aloha Lawns: Developing with SEO in mind

Disclaimer: I'm not an SEO expert, I just develop things. I'm speaking with past experience growing and ranking local service businesses. I've never understood the idea of businesses touting they pay "$$$" per month for SEO. From my experience your ranking moves up organically as your site becomes more set in

Aloha Lawns: Designing Contractor Onboarding

This is going to be a short and sweet update. I had some time to configure a multi-step form for contractor onboading today. It was designed with getting pertinent information from those looking to add additional work to their already existing businesses. It needs a bit more polishing, but, you

Building Aloha Lawns

Building Aloha Lawns

The concept of building a multi-faceted marketplace isn't new. However, I'd like chronicle my journey from building this from absolutely nothing. Yep, I just recently ran rails new alohalawns. The idea is simple, these marketplaces exist already. This isn't complete rocket science. There are just alot of use-cases and components.