Tooling & Productivity
Recipes
1 February 2024
Templated automations to solve common problems
Problem
Recipes aims to help public officers who believe in the idea of digitizing processes but don't have the awareness, skills, or time to digitize common workflows that require multiple OGP products to solve.
Our events, documentation, and demos may inspire them, but the effort required to get started can be perceived to be more than alternative solutions. Some may turn to their IT department for help or go through procurement processes to engage professional services and continue to focus on what's important in their role.
Recipes aims to lower the comparable effort with quick-start templates and empower public officers to digitize their workflow across multiple OGP products.
Solution
The power of Recipes is in the quantity of templates available to solve common problems. We gathered common use cases from problem statements, existing automations in use by other agencies, feature requests, and private sector inspiration.
For the Hackathon, we started with a handful of examples:
A customizable attendance tracker for your events
A way to track assets or book rooms
Collecting and forwarding feedback from users to a platform
Enforcement of fines with mailing payment links
How It Works
Public officers can browse Recipes for one of our templates that solve a problem they have, test it out with a demo, and continue to customize it for their own use.
At this point, the ideal solution would automate the duplication of the templates into the user's respective application accounts, but in the interest of developing an MVP for the Hackathon, we added additional steps to duplicate a template manually and share the API key.
Even with this friction, a user unfamiliar with how to use both our products could develop a prototype to solve their problem in a matter of minutes after completing a few steps.
After that point, users can test or customize further using OGP's products.
Potential Impact
The purpose of Recipes is to lower the bar to solving common problems that require the use of multiple OGP products. Benefits from adopting OGP products to solve your workflow issues include:
Unlock Significant Cost Savings: Recipes empowers government agencies to significantly reduce costs by minimizing reliance on expensive professional services, potentially saving thousands of dollars per solution.
Boost Productivity with Time Savings: Save up to 2-3 hours per solution by utilizing Recipes, enabling public officers to focus on essential tasks and enhancing overall productivity.
Drive Operational Efficiency: Facilitates the digitization of workflows to streamline processes, resulting in improved citizen services.
Team
Recipes was developed by a multidisciplinary team including from left to right below, Zul Icksan (Design), Wee Loong Kuan (Engineering), and Adan Vielma (Product)
Demo Day
