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Separate.Us

A supportive DIY divorce solution

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Time:

9 months

Type:

Solution for divorce process

Industry:

Web development

Platform:

Web

Saving time & money

Simple a complicated process

Easier, Cheaper

About

Project Idea

Separate.us is an online divorce assistant developed to help people complete all of the boring and dull paperwork by asking simple and understandable questions.

Wireframes

Separate.us is meant to be convenient and easy to use so we implemented it on the wireframes.

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Technology Stack

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Sandro Tuzzo

Divorce lawyer

The story behind

The divorce process in the USA is a true pain in the neck even if a marriage didn’t last long – and for long-term relationships, it can turn into a total disaster. You must uphold all federal and state laws and take into account literally everything you’ve been through during your family life.

The average cost of hiring an attorney is around $15,000, which is unaffordable for many people, so Sandro Tuzzo, a divorce lawyer, decided to simplify the process and make it much cheaper.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2015

This startup project participated in The Startup Battlefield of the TechCrunch Disrupt 2015 in San Francisco and was one of the finalists of the competition.

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Challenges and Solutions

There was quite a list of challenges for us to consider while developing Separate.us. We found solutions to all of them and here is what we did for it.

Complex decision tree

Problem:

To provide a full description of cosmetics that were used in makeup, we need to collect all possible information about it. We can use data from Instagram posts, YouTube video caption tracks, and comments to gather names of products.

Solution:

We used graph databases to represent and store data.

Complex decision tree

Different PDF files to autofill

Problem:

American courts have standard questions to be answered for the divorce forms. But the PDF files for the same forms are different in different courts (and sometimes they are also poorly printed) what made their autofill quite a complicated task.

Solution:

We used CMS, where all the possible dialogs were built into a decision tree. After that, the dialogs were rendered and put into a database to save time and speed up the answer.

Different PDF files to autofill

Results

Our team developed a smart online platform for people to deal with exhausting divorce paperwork. Separate.us made a complicated and expensive divorce process in California very simple and affordable.

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