Volition was founded by serial manufacturing entrepreneurs Nick Pinkston and Jeremy Herrman. They both grew up in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt in manufacturing families and met in Pittsburgh through their shared interest in tinkering with hardware. The vertical marketplace has been optimized to rapidly search & filter across many millions of products with highly detailed product data. Our ability to create a quality experience over such a large amount of data from so many vendors is the secret sauce that makes Volition’s platform possible.
We worked with Volition from inception and the first lines of code to the production launch of the marketplace. For the front-end user experience we used Vue.js, and Node.js with Fastify and ElasticSearch for the backend. Industrial products are unique in that they have a ton of attributes & related documentation, ElasticSearch helped to build a performant search and filter experience around these attributes.
