 Hi. Good evening. So I'll be talking about the Female Crowd Funding Website, which is the next chapter, and it was developed by Function8, which I am working. Okay. This is my first time to talk, so let me introduce myself to you. So my name is April Kuang, so I'm 20-something years old. So guess how old. So I'm currently working as a project manager in Function8 for eight months, so quite new. And I'm a web developer in PHP for six years and I do yoga as well. So about Function8, so a little brief about my company, so I guess I need to, what we do. So we outsource IT support, IT infrastructure, web, and mobile development and we also do some hosting. So our offices is in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and New Zealand. So if you want to know more about the company, you should visit the Function8.com. Okay. So some projects that I've done with Function8 is the British Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and some of those mini sites that we did, as in Singapore Indian Chamber, and bugs, and other companies here. So what is next chapter? So next chapter is the Funding Portal for Female Entrepreneurs and Women-Owned Business. So basically, so it's more for women. So I think we believe that women should support women. So it's more of like, we're comfortable about women supporting us. So that's what I said. So it's focused in businesses by women creating product services that women will love. Okay. So this is us. So the founder is Nicole Den Holder. So she's based in Hong Kong now, Function8, and Charlotte Hernandez, who did the user experience or interface for the website. Okay. So here, so far we have three campaigns running. It went live around, when was that? Around December, so first week of December, and we have, so far, we have two successfully funded campaigns. So the first one is the My Hong Kong Vehicle Book. So it's all about like vehicles found in Hong Kong. So he put it in a book that makes the children get excited. So it's a project by Elise Phillipson. So the target was 2,800. It was funded 2,516 US dollars. So there are 70 backers. And the second one is the Saris Living Leggings. So it's a project owned by Stephanie Poon. So she's quite a successful lady. And the target was supposed to be 15,000 US dollars. And it got funded for 16,333 US dollars. So 131 backers. So this is quite messy. So this campaign is quite stressful. Because after one week before the campaign will close, it's like Nicole was like, oh, we're not yet, we're not yet. Targeted the campaign, what we do. And then she's like looking all the hit mumps. Why is it no people scrolling? So I think we realized the very importance of the user experience. So next, what is this? So how next chapter works? So how's the website working? So basically, if I'm a woman or a co-founder for any business and I have this idea, product, or anything else, then I will sign up to next chapter and then upload my campaign and share it with other people. OK, so here is the process. So it's quite, yeah, it's moving. Cool. First is I register an account as a campaign owner and then activate an account. So admin or the admin of the website should check if the campaign doesn't involve any drugs or any porn or something like that. And then activate account is like checking if you're an authentic person. So next is create your account and then submit for review. So this is what is going on. So admin either approves or reject your campaign for editing means you add more information like slides, rewards, and YouTube videos and pictures. So next one is when approved, the campaign owner will update the campaign and add more details. And then after that, she or she can submit for final review and then admins approve or reject the campaign. And if approved, then campaign is now running. So once your campaign is running, then we have this launch date field. So when it launches, then it will automatically display the campaign on the data that launches. OK, so this is the example of the campaign page. So it will display how many, it's like Kickstarter and he called funding site that we have right now. So it will see the goal on the backwards and then just click Fund if you want to pledge. OK, so how to pledge? So if I am a man or woman, I can pledge it. And then so I register as a member, login as a member or login as Facebook for convenience and as a guest. So as a guest, we just don't like, OK, enter your name or email details and that's it. We also like save the member ID so that we can just identify that, OK, it's your second pledge. OK, it's your third pledge. So that's it. So the current payment process, so currently we're using the PayPal. It's the basic like receiving payment, like sending payments that's for now. So it's just so basic process currently. So the website will redirect to PayPal, then send money to the next chapter, and then when the payment completed, then it redirects back to the pledge page like this one, that page. So OK, so when the campaign ends, it will be all or nothing. So basically when the campaign ends, then if it's funded, then I'll get the money. So next chapter, get the 5% and then the PayPal, I think they have the 2.8% like that. And then if I didn't reach the target, then I got nothing. So next chapter, I got nothing and everyone got nothing. So it's the concept like that. Yeah, I know. So OK, so the development. So we are three developers. One is the front end and two is my senior, and then one me. Yeah, I'm also doing managing and the assistant coding for this website. So the technology we use. So page with my SQL. So we use Laravel 5 SAS for CSS framework. We use it back and for our repository. So it's so simple. So we also use deployment HQ just to push the changes to the demo, either to demo or live. Because our company is also doing hosting, so we don't do it like other cloud server. We use Splask for our hosting UI. So we use Semantic Geotrust for the SSL security. Somomi for the widgets, like the social media widgets and newsletters. Mailchimp for the newsletter and the Facebook API. OK, first is what we have done. So after we like, OK, this is the scope for the project. This is what we need. This is for the phase one, phase two. So for the phase one, we design the database. So this is how we design the database. So we just make it like to be flexible in the future. So whatever we add. So yeah, OK. And then design the UI experience. So basically, we have this inspiration websites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and those popular crowd funding sites. So we also need, because it's a female crowdfunding, so we make it more feminine, like pink hearts and all those icons that is for women love. And we use Trello for our project management. So of course, we only like five people working on it. So we just like divide it like this is the task that she wanted and it's done under QC or it's, yeah, this is for phase two. And yeah, basically what we're doing now. Yeah. And so we developed the back end using Laravel. OK, more of the Laravel. So why we select Laravel and why not code igniter? I mean, I don't know. Code igniter is like it's already dead. I don't know. I hope so. So it's dead, so it's not really advisable to use. It's in the future, like for further development, especially like PHP 7 is coming. It's already there. Cake PHP. I don't know. We just want something new. Symphony is quite very industrial. So I think it doesn't really fit for the website. Cojana doesn't, not a lot of people using it, so maybe it's not. Then Zen, Zen is a monster. Never mind Zen. And yeah, some other. Ye framework we use Rie, but we don't love it. I mean, the important thing is your team like it. So then we like Laravel. So why Laravel? Why not? I mean, fresh and young. Fresh because it's new. So and fit, fit, doesn't mean like the guy there. So fit means it's fit for us. It's fit for like us, like not so very into core of the PHP. So we just code, but we're not, it's really like the very programmer one. Excellent community. So this is very helpful because a lot of people will help us, like if we have problems and stuff like that. Good relationship. Good relationship means database mapping. So we tried it. We tried it one CMS site that we did and we kind of like it. We like it how our team learned and how we debug the bugs. So other technical side of Laravel, why we use Laravel is because of its flexibility. It's MVC. So one of the features is the eloquent ORM which has this good relationship mapping like this code that we have now. So instead of like declaring the query, select dash, select asterisk from whatever. So we can just call it has many or just like if it pledges is also equal. I mean, campaigners equals to members. So we just like belongs to member and then the ID is just passed. Just call this model and then yeah. I can't really describe how I code. Then next is the blade engine. So one thing that I like about blade engine other than the other templating options that we have is that you can put PHP inside your view without any other studies. You need to know this and yeah. And also you can put on the control structure just like how our code here. So if campaign is running, then we display this code and else if then we display the order now. So it's quite like any designer can really understand it. Yeah. So even though you don't have any core background of PHP, you can understand this one. So it's very easy for a developer to edit the view codes. Next is the controller. So I mean, I think the new part, the nicest feature about the controller for Laravel is the restful functionality. And other than that, it's just the basic controller like this. So other things is powerful tools. So it has a database migration and sitting. So why we really like the database migration is that because we know that this website, we will maintain the future. So because we will be maintaining the site. So the client will just, OK, I want this feature. I want this that. And then because we're three developers. So whenever someone will add tables in our database and then we will need to be notified that, hey, I added database there. And then what the nicest about database migration is just it will automatically, once we are decent migration, so it automatically integrates to our database. So that's the cool thing about it. And sitting is for testing. So it's very important like unit testing and putting data and seeding data in the database. And routing system. So it has not so comprehensive routing code like the other like the code igniter. I can't really understand a lot. So the routing system is quite very understandable and it's very cool. And it's very well documented. So it's not really for dummies, but their website is very like as easy to understand, especially those codes, those functionalities that you want. And the concept of the framework, it's really easy to understand. Like a designer can really dig into it. OK, so these are the Laravels. Who used Laravel, by the way? Yeah, cool. Really, not a lot. OK, I just thought there's a lot because it's quite popular, right? In 2015, it's like most of the number one PHP framework. And so here are some of the some Laravels vendors that we use. So MailChimp, folklore image is for the image manipulation, resizing, cropping, and the rotation. And PayPal, so REST, APS, DKPHP, so it is from paypal.github.com. Social Light is for the Facebook login. Yeah, so for the future updates. So actually what we did for PayPal is not really the correct one, because supposedly because it's a crowdfunding site, right? So we should get money until the campaign ends, or if it's successful. But what we're doing now is get the payment, get a payment. And if it's successful, then we get the money. Money will be there, stay there in the next chapter account. But if not, we will refund all these people, which is not very advisable. So we're still thinking of how we're going to do this. So I think what we're going to do is the authorization. So we will authorize PayPal. So OK, if I'm a pleasure. So I will authorize PayPal to send money to this next chapter account on the closing date. Yeah, so I think that's the correct one. So it's fine. Yeah, so that's how we're going to do so. Yeah, we're still doing implementing that. And I think we also need to ask permission or to submit application to people that will be doing that. I'm not sure, yeah, because this is a crowdfunding. It's not really like a common business in people. And then more payment option gateways. So we're thinking about Payment Express. So have you used Payment Express or Asia Pay? Yeah, just like to enter credit card automatically. I think the stressful part of using these kind of gateways is that applying to the bank, which nine months. There's one agency that I found here that handles a lot of that stuff for you. OK. Yeah, it's kind of a story process to get the Payment Gateway and also sit up with them. Yeah, yeah, so OK, cool. Do you want me to try to spread? Oh, sorry? Try to spread, right? Ah, it could be closing, right? One, one, one. That's not it. OK, OK, yeah, but Stripe is PayPal, no. It's not PayPal. It's Braintree. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Braintree. So in TechCrunch, they'll be shutting down. But if you have US dollar, you can use PayPal with US dollars. Yeah, OK, yeah. So that might be applicable for some markets. Yeah, maybe for China. Yeah, the main audience are each Asian country, so... Ah, OK, really? For a bit? For you? OK, currently the campaigners are Hong Kong. But we want to expand also our foundation of the world. But most of the pleasure are from Australia, US, and China, especially leggings, because they can afford it. So expensive. Was there something like the works with US, China, or you should find something using the works with human pay? Yeah, but they can't access PayPal there. Not yet. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. For PayPal, for certain countries, even though I said that you can register, you can pay without registering, it was still probably registered in certain countries. Oh, really? Yeah, it's important. I mean, certain countries are. Yeah, but the problem also we have encountered, because our target people also are experts in Hong Kong. So in Hong Kong, it's like, once you go to PayPal, it's Chinese. So we have spent a lot of days, because the API for PayPal doesn't really have that option. But the direct pay thing, you can set up, I think it's called direct pay, or something like that. And I mean, ours isn't English. Yeah, it's English here, but in Hong Kong, it's Chinese. What I'm saying is, it's the back end, whatever you can do all the processing yourself. They don't even have to look at the PayPal page. So you can do it through your own coding, you can send all the information. Yeah, I think we will consider that as well. So you can do it in whatever language you want to do it in. Yeah, okay. If I could do that, I would might as well use tribe or green tree. They're designed in Hong Kong rather than the PayPal. There's something they've added on the Snatch feature. It's kind of people don't know what they have to do. But that was kind of what tribe was designed to do was that you just cut the field. You can type whatever text around it. That's why it's pretty difficult. Yeah, okay. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for the suggestion. I love it. And user experience improvements. So most of our users, based on Google Analytics, are mobile phone. So we kind of need to improve it. Example in the hit maps, people don't scroll down. So we need people to scroll down. And we need in the mobile phone, everything is in there already in their first view. Because some people are too lazy to scroll down. And sometimes if it loads so slow, they don't like it. So we need to have all this consideration. Yeah. And functionality enhancements, especially at the back end. So there's a lot to improve on this website. And we're open for suggestions. So that's why I'm here. So we're open to just on how to improve the website. So just go to website nextchapter.com.hk. Yeah. So thank you. And get in touch. There's my email. So if you have suggestions and comments and like, hey, I don't like this. Hey, you can do this or other useful geeky stuff that you type in your keyboard. And this is my LinkedIn admin. So it's April Kwon. And my blog is ouralovelays.com. Thank you very much. Sorry, the what? The unit testing. Yeah. So I just say we didn't install yet the unit testing. Yeah. So because it's not really like a lot of functions as well, like small field fields. So we, it's a, it's a time, right? Sometimes it's, there's a right thing to when to use unit testing. I saw that on your Facebook. Yeah. So they knew. Yeah. So yeah. No more questions. Thank you. Okay. Thanks.