It all started in 2017! Rewards Show started with a single website developer with a Dell laptop. In the first a few years, it took long time to even find meaningful information manually from local magazines and shopping catelog. Then we have a few more talented coder joined the team, we started to use machine learning and AI to help us go through large volume of data automatically. Still, took lots of efforts to train the data model and made sure the information collected and saved to our directory was accurate.
In 2019, we started to develop our mobile apps so that people can search the directory on the mobile anywhere. It was hard work to build a fundation to support different mobile devices. But, we made it in 2020 and finally launched our apps on various app stores. The apps definitely bought us more end users and grew our community a bit.
In the very beginning, the only country supported is Australia where we located. It was easy to start with the merchats we were familiar with. It was fortunate that we met a few more people from other countries and regions that suggested us to expand our focus to other areas. It sounded easy but was pretty impossible in the early days as we did not have any knowledge about the shops and merchants. After lots of experiements and fails, we optimised our engine to support multile countries and languages.
The essential part of Rewards Show is our members and community. The information in our directory is static but merchants change their program details and policies all the time. How can we keep track of all these changes is a big question to be answered. We are hoping to launch more member reward feature to encourage everyone to contribute and improve the quality of the data set.
Are you interested in join us? Please feel free to send us an email any time! We especially want to have more multi-language skilled moderators!