V2

Goal: Update and Fix issues with V1

Status: In Progress v2: See live link

Backend

• Database Update

  • Update schema to HSDS 3, the update will provide more data points that would help our solution make better decisions and provide better results.

  • Upgrade Neo4j to the latest version - 5.11.0

  • Update heroku stack

  • Update backend stack to latest version

• DevOps for Logging

  • Add logs for queries,

  • services,

  • errors.

  • Improve SLA: target is 99.9%

    • Getting close to this; with our monitoring, we haven't had a downtime.

• Scraping

  • Prepare an ETL structure for future scrapes.

    • link to repo: https://github.com/PhilanthroLab/ssn-etl

  • Geocode and clean up addresses: To standardize all locations in our DB, to aid our location based search algorithm. - On hold as it would be expensive to do this on GCP

• Graphql routes for interacting with DB

  • Calculate the distance of an organization from a user and return on search.

  • Search services and organizations give results in order of proximity

  • Search Categories give results in order of proximity

  • Add auto screen for eligibility.

  • Improve eligibility check to use user biodata

  • Track views, saves, refers and suggest edits to be used on SSN Orgs

  • Send emails to Organizations when referrals are made.

  • Update Search endpoints to include a field for keyword relevance or proximity. (This was no longer needed)

  • Create AI embeddings to utilize semantic search - WIP

• Authentication

  • Create a unified auth for all products.

• Search

  • update our location search on SSN take a look at https://neo4j.com/blog/developer/graph-metadata-filtering-vector-search-rag/

  • Organization search using Organization name

Frontend

• The user gets prompted to update their profile

• Get the user's location using IP

• Show organization distance from the user

• Update search queries to use user location

• Store pagination in URL instead of state to allow users to share search

• Pre-fill zipcode using result from IP parse.

• Show direction to services on map for user

• Enable voice search for accesibility - Will need to rework this as there have been improvements in the tech that should allow for a better UX where the user doesn't need to type but can use voice to trigger searches instead of going through the same page as the map and text.

• Add posthog for tracking information and user actions on frontend.

• Update tech stack to latest version

• Move to Digital Ocean - WIP