The Most Complex Subsystem of LetMeGo Is Getting Its Final Touches Today

Screenshot of the Picture Gallery where lodging staff members will be able to add, crop, sort, and delete pictures.

14 months ago, Lucho joined the LetMeGo team. Almost right away, he started to work in the Sinatrra scope of the Merrcury Engine (the software behind LetMeGo) in charge of allowing users to add lodging listings and update them. You can think of it as a content management system (CMS) for lodging listings. This scope was nicknamed Sinatrra. Although we didn’t know it back then, Sinatrra ended up being the most complex and feature-rich subsystem of all. The Sinatrra scope has eleven detailed use cases and over 130 user interfaces.

Well, after 14 months of hard work by Lucho, and with the help of Maestro, Nickman, and Andres, the Sinatrra scope is getting finished.

The Sinatrra scope has many ‘industry-first’s’. Among them:

• First to fully support the addition of ANY lodging type; from hotels, to hostels, to vacation rentals, to pods, to family homes
• First lodging listing management system featuring WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
• First to use AJAX as its primary UI technique (thank you jQuery!)
• First to allow free and unlimited upload of HD-resolution pictures
• First to fully integrate Google Street View with angle customization
• First to allow lodging staff members to include their face pictures, and profiles, as part of the lodging listing
• First to support non-Latin-based addresses alongside Latin-based addresses

Most of the features of Sinatrra will be experienced by lodging staff members. As a traveler, though, you will experience Sinatrra whenever you see the details of a lodging listing.

We have worked very hard on Sinatrra expecting it to become the default listing provider for the lodging industry. We may never get there, but shooting that high will help us get somewhere.

Thank you Maestro, Nickman, Andres, and, specially, Lucho.

Beta… here we come!

Alexander Torrenegra

P.S. Here is the current status of all the subsystems and scopes required for our full beta release:

Progress of the Merrcury Engine
Scope	Status
Web Subsystem	Ready for Beta!
Morrison Subsystem	Ready for Beta!
Cockerr Subsystem	Ready for Beta!
Hendrrix Scope	Ready for Beta!
Sinatrra Scope	98% of QA for Beta
Arrmstrong Scope	98% of QA for Beta
Rrose Scope	Ready for Beta!
Charrly Scope	Ready for Beta!
Mozarrt Scope	Alpha Ready
Mastrropiero Scope	40% of Coding for Beta
Kubrrick Scope	60% of Coding for Beta
Brrown Scope	35% of Coding for Beta
Marrley Scope	10% of Coding for Beta
Waterrs Scope	25% of Coding for Beta