Scholarship discovery experience for Mais Solidário.
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200+courses available
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350+scholarship offers
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80%maximum discount advertised
CONTEXT
Why this product exists.
Mais Solidário already existed as an education platform. The challenge was to rebuild an application whose accumulated technical and maintenance issues made evolution difficult.
PROBLEM / CHALLENGE
What needed solving.
The work required understanding the existing product, preserving business rules, rebuilding functionality, reorganizing code and deploying a replacement without losing continuity for users.
SOLUTION
What I built.
A simpler PHP-based architecture around scholarship discovery, course and city search, vocational testing and the platform's education offer catalogue.
ENGINEERING DECISIONS
Intentional choices over complexity.
01
Rebuild around clarity
The replacement prioritizes understandable PHP code and explicit application flows so future changes do not depend on opaque layers.
02
Preserve the business model
Reconstruction starts from the existing product behavior and data needs, separating technical improvement from changing the public promise.
03
Make maintenance routine
A clear server-rendered structure reduces the amount of infrastructure and client-side machinery required to publish improvements.
LESSONS FROM PRODUCTION
What real usage teaches.
Rebuilding an existing platform is as much about reading and preserving behavior as it is about writing new code. The important result is a system that can keep evolving without repeating the same maintenance cost.
Next project
The next technical priorities are continued refinement of application boundaries, automated coverage and deployment automation.
