Blog Posts
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Deploying Middleman with GitHub Actions
This is the final step to get the app live using Github Pages! Thanks for sticking with me until the end of this series :) . Read about how to set up Middleman, either locally or inside a Docker container, in the previous blog posts: Add Webpack to y... -
Dockerize Middleman
Welcome to part 2 of the “Add Webpack to dockerized Middleman and deploy it with GitHub Actions in simple steps” series! In the last blogpost we built an empty Middleman application locally and added Webpack as the external pipeline. Now it’s time to... -
Add Webpack to a Middleman app
We’ve been making some improvements to Manas’ website lately focusing on tackling the technical-debt tagged issues. On top of our list was adding Webpack as a JavaScript external processor to the Middleman framework. Adding the cherry on top, we also...
Projects
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Connecting trucks with cargo
1 /5 Client Avancargo is an Argentinean company who seeks to optimize land transport in Latin America, by facilitating the process of finding and booking cargo vehicles through a platform that puts together supply and demand in one place, thus simpli... -
Multi-modal survey tool
1 /6 Client Surveda was developed in collaboration with InSTEDD as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative NCD Mobile Phone Survey. In the context of this project, the tool collects critical information about noncommunicable d... -
Service location optimization
1 /5 Client PlanWise is a tool developed by Concern’s Innovations initiative, in partnership with InSTEDD. It helps planners and responders in low-resources settings see how they can serve as many people as possible, as cost-effectively as they can,... -
Amplifying knowledge sharing
1 /5 Client Amplio is a Seattle based company with a mission to empower the world’s most vulnerable communities through knowledge sharing. They have developed a robust offering that combines innovative technology, services, and a network of in-countr... -
Chatbot builder
1 /5 Client AIDA was developed by Manas.Tech and InSTEDD, in collaboration with mVAM, an innovative team at the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, and thanks to a grant from the Cisco Foundation and additional support... -
Perfect gifts, every time
1 /5 Client The idea for Dearduck came to founder Katy Aucoin as a realization: gift giving was supposed to be a beautiful, fun and thoughtful thing, and instead most people experienced it as an awkward and uncomfortable process, filled with anxiety... -
Head-up display for spacesuit
1 /5 Client The Austrian Space Forum, in Innsbruck, defines itself as a network of space professionals and people with a passion for space. One of its members, Dr. Gernot Groomer, has had a lifelong dream: finding life in outer space. Not too ambitio... -
Time tracking
1 /4 Concept Brium tracks the time each member of your team spends on different activities, by asking them through chat what they are doing. A couple of words a day is all it needs to provide your company with accurate timesheets. 2 /4 Requirements &... -
Docker Cloud on iOS
1 /4 Concept Tugboat offers the first mobile experience to manage Docker Cloud accounts for iPhone and iPod users. 2 /4 Requirements & Context Tugboat was developed purely because Manas’ own engineers wanted a way to manage Docker deployments from a... -
Diagnostics Visualization
1 /4 Client Cepheid is a worldwide molecular diagnostics company which manufactures, among others, the GeneXpert family of systems: accurate yet easy-to-use machines which automate testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases. Thanks to the agile... -
SMS Polls
1 /3 Client Developed as part of InSTEDD’s platform tools, Pollit allows the user to easily define a questionnaire composed of free text, numeric or multiple choice questions, by importing an online Google Form. By supplying a list of mobile phones t... -
SMS Reminders
1 /3 Client Remindem was developed together with InSTEDD with the aim to provide support and information in the form reminders to different groups. Use cases include health tips for expecting mothers based on which week of pregnancy they are, study a... -
SMS App Builder
1 /3 Client mBuilder, which we developed for InSTEDD, is a free and open source tool that you can use to build scalable SMS applications without any programming knowledge. 2 /3 Approach mBuilder works in a very intuitive way. To create an application...