Apr 22, 2024
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Grappos
Ongoing

Grappos

$75,000+
more 1 year
United States, Spartanburg
2-5
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Service categories
Service Lines
Software Development
Design
Web Development
Domain focus
Business Services
Commerce
Consumer Products & Services
Programming language
CSS
HTML
TypeScript
Frameworks
Angular.js
Express
Node.js
CMS solutions
WebFlow
Subcategories
Software Development
Business Software
Design
Graphic Design
User Experience

Challenge

Like many great startups, Grappos was born out of a frustrating personal experience. Founder Eric Kunisawa set about picking up a bottle of his wife’s favorite wine, but wasn’t able to find it - and instead had to scour LA for what should have been a common, $12 bottle of wine. He figured there must be a better way to do this, and thought a software platform could help.

Solution

Launched in 2008, today Grappos is a powerhouse that serves some of the biggest and most popular wine industry labels. Grappos was built as a mobile-responsive web-app, using Angular and NodeJS - hosted on Amazon Web Services, with tight integration to MapBox for geocoding addresses into coordinates on the map. This project was tackled with an Agile, Sprint-based Methodology, and Designli continues to help Eric and the Grappos team with ongoing iteration and support.

Results

Hundreds of beer, wine, and spirits brands rely on Grappos product locators: widgets that show their website visitors where to find and purchase their products. Designli assisted with a ground-up overhaul of the Grappos software system after 12 years of successful SaaS business operation.