iHeartLocal is built to provide a reliable & trustworthy marketplace. The app includes favorite places that are recommended by your friends or acquaintances, allowing people to get access to the best deals that are recommended based on real experience.

1. Our Success Story
“The most impressive thing was Savvycom satisfied requirements we expected
our outsource company to be in terms of culture communication, skillsets and a
desired partnership. I really don’t look at as I’m dealing with a vendor but a
partner. ”
Mr. David Cheng, the founder of iHeartLocal
Linkage between businesses and consumers
http://iheartlocal.com

2. Customers are the most important people to any business. Especially in startup
stage, entrepreneurs should bear in mind that building relationship with
customer is the key to a success and growth. Research has shown that 50%
small businesses could not survive the first year due to their lack of customer
insights.
New Way To Approach Customers
To resolve the abovementioned problem, in 2013, a group of passionate people
from Zaka, an earliest company software came up with a mobile app that helps
small businesses connect their customers was. At the moment, one of the key
challenges was to find a right outsourcing partner. It took some time, but finally,
Savvycom was chosen with a strategy that fits Zaka’s requirements regarding
culture, communication and skillset.
“iHeartLocal” was born.
Experienced a harmonious collaboration,
the team has been working together since then, and after 2 years…

3. Client Requirements
Create a locations hub to provide trusted reference
and ratings through a mobile application.
Allow users to connect with the businesses and service
providers.
Build a business ecosystem for merchants that helps
them approach potential consumers while tailoring a
strong bond on customer relationship.

4. Challenges and Solutions
CHALLENGES SOLUTIONS
Real time system
Data and information are needed to be
instantly showed up and broadcasted on
the network.
Large user base
iHeartLocal is predicted to serve at least 1
million users within the first year; the
challenge was to develop a solution to
handle enormous and expanding number
of requests in the shortest time.
Rick user experience
All audience’s expectations are always
listened to and followed responsively with
new capabilities featured and upgraded,
which leads to rapid improvements.
The app was designed and implemented
with scalability from the very start. It made
the system able to scale up and deal with
massive growing user traffic while main-
tain continuous and stable performance.
Agile Model was applied to adapt to
changing circumstanceshelps the team
receive the latest valuable feedbacks from
users to improve the quality of application.
Apply real-time data streaming that can
effectively optimize the speed of transfer-
ring data between client and server.
Multi-platform compatibility
iHeartLocal was expected to be compatible
with a variety of platform and operating
systems.
A stack of SQLite, Java, Objective C, C++,
HTML, HTML5, AngularJS and Gulp was
used to build a robust application with
high compatibility.

5. App Showcase
Signing up for iHeartLocal is quick and
easy - sign up with Facebook or E-mail
to start sharing today!
SIMPLE SETUP
The function of multiple merchants
function was added to help businesses
manage their places.
FOLLOW FRIENDS
Create your profile and share with
others your favorite local places.
CUSTOM PROFILE
Unlike massive group coupon services,
iHeartLocal only delivers deals and spe-
cials from places you've chosen to add.
GOODIES
Others ask you to accept anonymous
reviews with questionable
motivation-iHeartLocal is different.
TRUSTED RATINGS
The iHeartLocal activity feed updates
you about places, deals, friends and
referrals.
GET IN THE KNOW

6. Project Milestones
2014
2014
2015
2015
APRIL
JUNE
SEPTEMBER
AUGUST
The first version of the app was
released under the name “Zaka”.
The app was official launched at
Orange International Street Fair
with the “iHeartLocal” name.
The project was kicked off with a
high level meeting between the US
and Vietnamese team.
The function of multiple merchants
function was added to help
businesses manage their places.

7. Level 12, Viet A tower, Duy Tan,
Hanoi, Vietnam
(+84) 4 3202 9222
contact@savvycomsoftware.com
30 Perry Street, Matraville
NSW 2036, Australia
(+61) 403 248 269
83 Devonshire Ave#1 Mountain View,
CA 94043, US
(+1) 408 466 7268
The Result
http://savvycomsoftware.com
This is a great social network platform that allows users to share
their favorite places to their friends and acquaintances while acts
as a marketing channel for businesses. iHeartLocal is predicted
to serve at least 1 million users within the first year with 30%
annual increase.
Looking for talented team delicated
to your success?