Chicago · from an entrepreneur’s vision to a product
A local jobs platform where young people take the initiative.
A small job nearby, someone willing to do it and an agreement about the work. That was the idea behind KidsJobs: a platform connecting young people with local tasks. A client in Chicago brought the vision. IndustrylinQ developed the product and its processes, then built the app and backend.
KidsJobs · product design and development
Take the initiative. Make the agreement clear.
Post a job
The customer describes the work, location and timing.
Respond independently
The young person reviews the job and expresses interest.
Assign the job
The response, assigned person and terms come together.
The question: how do young people take initiative while parents stay involved?
The engagement required more than matching supply and demand. Young people needed to respond to jobs themselves. Parents needed a distinct role without taking over that initiative.
The customer describes the work. A young person looks for a suitable job and responds. A parent can manage their child’s account. Those responsibilities helped shape the product.
From a response to an actual agreement
Viewing a job is not the same as responding to it. A response is not yet an assignment. Managing a child’s account is different again from posting work.
We designed the information and steps for these roles together. Job details, responses, assignments and parent-child relationships became part of the product and data model. Rates, timing, locations and the assigned person belong with the job, not just in separate messages.
Designing and building the whole product
The client brought the ambition; we took responsibility for product development, process design and implementation. Rapid development translated the vision into applications and business logic.
The app and backend formed the product together. Ionic and Angular supported the interface, with cloud functions and data storage handling the underlying processing. Account relationships and the stages of a job were part of that technical foundation.
Independence needs an intentionally designed environment
KidsJobs gave young people a role of their own, with parents involved through a separate responsibility. The design question was practical: what can someone do independently, what information do they need and where does support belong?
Employee, customer and partner platforms raise similar questions. Not because the relationships are identical, but because one generic user role rarely reflects how people actually work together.
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