Lighthouse App
A comprehensive mobile app designed to build a supportive community for cancer patients, enabling them to share experiences, document their journey, and reduce stress, anxiety, and isolation. The platform fosters peer support, guidance, and tips during and after treatment, helping users connect with like-minded individuals and form a compassionate, interactive community.
Country
United States of America
Service
Mobile App
Industry
Healthcare
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Lighthouse App is a mobile community-building platform designed to support cancer patients by connecting them with survivors and peers, helping reduce stress, anxiety, and isolation. The app allows users to share personal stories, send messages, and participate in private, semi-private, or public forums while providing secure, immersive spaces for engagement. QSS Technosoft conducted user research, a product discovery workshop, and competitor analysis to design a feature-rich app with multi-language support, real-time communication, social integration, and online mentoring, empowering patients to connect, share guidance, and find emotional support throughout their journey.
Process We Followed
After lining up salient details related to the project, our team outlined a course of action that would be followed to develop a comprehensive solution. The process comprised of identification of problems, considering the relevant factors of the solution, taking note of common challenges faced, technology stack to be used and coming up with the outcome in the end.
1. Problem Identification
Cancer patients often need emotional support during treatment. Lighthouse App was created to connect patients, survivors, and caregivers in a secure community, share stories, and send messages for guidance, support, and inspiration.
3. Solution Implementation
We conducted user research and a five-day discovery workshop to understand patient needs, define features, and plan development. Competitive analysis helped identify gaps, refine strategy, and shape a patient-centric, interactive cancer support app.
2. Feasibility Study
We assessed Lighthouse App’s feasibility, focusing on key features like private/public forums, peer-to-peer engagement, in-app messaging, member directories, and seamless data import to build a secure, interactive cancer support community.
4. Challenges Faced by QSS
Developing Lighthouse app posed challenges like implementing real-time communication, multi-channel support, personalized UI, tracking & reporting, and managing large user data while ensuring patient stories and caregiver support were effectively leveraged.
5. Final Outcome Achieved
QSS Technosoft delivered Lighthouse app with seamless backend integration, multi-device compatibility, real-time tagging, multi-language support, social networking for survivors, and an online mentoring program, creating a robust cancer community platform.
Problem Identification
In this modern world where the evolution of diseases is a major threat to society, cancer has come into existence as the severe and most rapidly growing illness. Most of the patients suffering from cancer are in need of emotional and inspirational support. The client after addressing such issues in the society approached us with the idea of building an online community app connecting cancer patients to help each other.
- Allows users to register as a patient, survivor or others
- Secure and immersive virtual space
- Easily navigable cancer-related stories on the homepage
- Send or receive messages to or outside connections
Feasibility Study
When the client approached us with the idea of making a community-building platform which connects people with the person in a similar situation and helps them find guidance, they acquainted us with their basic requirements as per the business. There were many notable functionalities that were needed to implement such as users to contact each other in-app, easy importation of user-data etc.
- Encourages users to share, connect, communicate, and engage
- Users were allowed to create private, semi-private and public forums
- Facilitates peer to peer engagement
- Backed with member directory feature
- Easy enabling private IMs
Solution Implementation
Before diving into development, we structured a clear roadmap to align the app with user needs and business goals. This included analyzing technical requirements, envisioning core features, and identifying opportunities to create a seamless, user-centric cancer community platform.
User research
In order to understand the viewpoint of target groups about this digital mobile app idea, we conducted contextual inquiry research among cancer patients. This helped us understand the user types, their needs and the pain points and how to design a thriving digital community platform where they can address each other’s necessities.
Product discovery workshop
What is more important during the development of an app is to completely analyse and comprehend the objectives the client is targeting to achieve. In order to do so, the in-house team of QSS Technosoft conducted a product discovery workshop which was solely carried out to crystalize the business idea and discover the real potential of the product. Discovery workshop is a pre-development stage of product development usually arranged in the presence of the client and the members who are handling the project.
It is nearly impossible to get through the possibilities and create an app without understanding the underlying requirements. For that reason, the well-versed project development team discussed the functionalities to consider in this cancer community-based app such as tech stack, potential users, and what specific features needed to add for enhanced user experience flow. With the help of this five-day workshop, our team developed an eye and set a vision towards the app development planning.
Competitor Analysis
We inspected the market for similar applications and acknowledged the business strategy of our competitors. We executed a competitive analysis which contributed to understanding the areas we can make improvement and develop a customer ready app.
Challenges Faced by Team QSS
Since the new-age programming continues to improve, it makes app development an amazing field to be associated with, although at the same time, it appears quite challenging for app developers when it comes to employing specific features.
- Devising tracking capabilities and summary reports
- Multi-channel support
- Build real-time e-communication
- Incorporating a large amount of data in the UI
- Allow user to personalize app as per their comfort
- Leveraging patients with a wide range of stories and caregiver support
Final Outcome
After laying hold of every requirement and analysing the practicality of a proposed project, we presented the client with wireframes and defined the complete process flow. The QSS Technosoft team followed the agile methodology and determined the primacy of the features to get to MVP.
- Seamless integration of complex backend processing
- Compatible with different devices & screen sizes
- Allow tagging of real-time observation
- Multi-language support
- Social integration with cancer survivors and fighters
- Facilitates online mentoring program
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Sample Interview Questions
Most of the patients suffering from cancer are in need of emotional and inspirational support. The client wanted to build an online community app that connects like-minded cancer patients to help each other. Some functionalities the app should have are-
- Allows users to register as a patient, survivor or others
- Secure and immersive virtual space
- Easily navigable cancer-related stories on the homepage
- Send or receive messages to or outside connections
Some tech stacks used are PHP, AngularJS, MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, AWS and Bitbucket.
Lighthouse app facilitates users to form a community with like-minded people to actively share guidance and tips regarding the cancer treatment. It is a full-fledged community-building platform where cancer patients share their stories and document their journey to reduce stress, anxiety and isolation. It helps others to cope up during and after treatment by offering support and guidance during a difficult time.
Yes, integrating a chatbot AI would enhance user engagement and support. It can efficiently handle common queries, assist with real-time observations, provide guidance about the mentoring program, and connect users—especially cancer survivors and fighters—more effectively through instant responses across devices and languages.
The client wanted to build a community-building platform which connects people with the person in a similar situation and helps them find guidance, they acquainted us with their basic requirements as per the business. The objectives client wanted to achieve through this app are-
- Allowing users to register as a patient, survivor or others
- Facilitating a Secure and immersive virtual space
- Allowing easily navigable cancer-related stories on the homepage
- Send or receive messages to or outside connections
QSS team has implemented AWS cloud solution in the app.
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What Our client has to say!
" I am immensely happy by the efforts the QSS Technosoft team have put in my project. The top-notch team of highly versatile peers devised the app as exactly as I needed it. "
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