Scholarship Club

Global scholarships and opportunities—discover, filter, and act with confidence.

Overview

Scholarship Club is a web-first discovery platform that aggregates scholarships, fellowships, grants, internships, and early‑career roles from around the world. Built on a robust Laravel backend and SEO‑optimized architecture, it helps students and professionals find the right opportunities through powerful search, filtering, and alerting. The platform emphasizes credibility (verified listings), timeliness (deadline‑aware surfacing), and personalization (saved searches and alerts). A Flutter companion app can be provided for mobile‑native experiences.

Key Features

  • Unified search across scholarships, grants, internships, and jobs.
  • Advanced filters: country/region, study level, discipline, funding type, deadline, eligibility.
  • Deadline‑aware ranking and reminders; calendar export of saved opportunities.
  • Saved searches, watchlists, and email/push alerts for new matches.
  • Rich listing pages with eligibility, benefits, documents, official links, and FAQs.
  • Publisher/partner portal for institutions to submit and manage listings.
  • Moderation queue with verification workflows and change history.
  • SEO‑friendly URLs, schema markup, sitemaps, and fast page performance.
  • Analytics on clicks, saves, conversions, and partner performance.

Modules

  • Explorer/Search
  • Filters & Alerts
  • Saved Lists
  • Publisher Portal
  • Moderation & QA
  • Analytics & Reports
  • Integrations (email/push/calendars)
  • Public API (optional)

Technology Stack

laravel
mysql-icon
agora
aws
cloudwatch
html
css
docker
dropbox
firebase
Flutter
google-map
SMPTP
twilio
S3

Payment Gateway

Strip
paypal
credit-debit-card
Backend (Laravel, PHP 8.x)
  • Laravel 10/11
  • Eloquent ORM
  • Queues & Workers (Redis/Horizon)
  • Events/Jobs
  • Policies & Gates (RBAC)
  • API Resources / Transformers
  • Auth via Sanctum / Passport
  • Caching (Redis) 
  • Storage (S3/MinIO) 
  • Scheduler/Crons 
  • Mail & Notifications
  • Rate limiting & throttling
Databases & Data Layer
  • MySQL 8 / PostgreSQL 14+
  • Redis for cache/queues
  • Optional: MongoDB for logs/feeds
  • Search with
    Elastic/OpenSearch (where required
  • Database migrations & seeders
  • Read replicas and connection
    pooling on scale
Mobile (Flutter, Dart 3.x)
  • Single codebase for iOS/Android
  • Material 3 & responsive layouts
  • Offline‑first flows with local persistence
  • Push notifications (FCM/APNs)
  • Deep linking & universal links
  • Flutter Web/Desktop targets when needed
Web Front Ends
  • Blade + Tailwind
  • Inertia/Vue/React when SPA is warranted
  • Vite‑powered builds
  • SSR & SEO‑ready routing
  • Form requests & validation guards
DevOps & Infrastructure
  • Dockerized services
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab)
  • Environments: Dev/Stage/Prod
  • IaC (Terraform/
    Ansible where applicable)
  • Nginx/Load balancers
  • Auto‑scaling on AWS/Linode/DigitalOcean
  • CDN &
    object storage
  • Automated backups & restores
  • Blue/green & canary releases
Observability
  • Centralized logs (ELK/CloudWatch)
  • Error tracking (Sentry/Bugsnag)
  • Metrics (Prometheus/Grafana)
  • Uptime & synthetic monitoring 
  • Runbooks & alerting on SLOs
Security & Compliance
  • OWASP ASVS aligned
  • CSRF/XSS/SQLi defenses
  • Encryption in transit/at rest
  • Secrets management &
    rotation
  • Principle of least privilege (IAM)
  • Audit trails & immutable logs
  • GDPR‑aware data handling &
    DPA support
  • IP allowlists and device trust for admin
Payments & Commerce
  • Gateway‑agnostic layer with adapters for Stripe/Checkout / Paymob/Paystack / Bank Alfalah (and others)
  • 3‑D Secure & SCA support where available
  • Refunds, disputes, settlements, payouts
  • Tax/VAT engines and
    invoicing
Communications & Maps
  • SMS/Voice (Twilio/others)
  • Email (SES/SendGrid)
  • Push (Firebase/OneSignal)
  • Maps & routing (Google
    Maps Platform/Mapbox)
  • Distance matrix, geofencing, and place search
Testing & Quality
  • PHPUnit/Pest feature & API tests
  • Static analysis & code style gates
  • lutter widget/golden/integration
    tests
  • Staging/UAT checklists
  • Load testing for critical paths
Localization & Accessibility
  • i18n (Laravel Lang/Flutter intl)
  • RTL support
  • WCAG‑aware components
  • Date/number/currency
    localization

Delivery & Engagement

Discovery → Design → Delivery → Growth
– Discovery workshops, domain mapping, and risk profiling.
– UX flows, prototypes, and design systems before code.
– Agile sprints with transparent burndown and demos.
– Weekly/bi‑weekly releases with feature flags and kill‑switches.
– Data migration playbooks and cutover plans for go‑live.
– Post‑launch growth loops: analytics, A/B tests, and roadmap grooming.

Security & Data Governance

Threat modeling and secure‑by‑default coding practices.
PII scoping, data minimization, and retention policies.
Backups, RTO/RPO targets, and disaster recovery tests.
Access reviews, audit exports, and anomaly alerts.

Support & SLAs

Tiered support (L1/L2/L3) with defined response/resolution targets.
Incident management (on‑call rotations, status pages, PIRs).
Managed hosting & monitoring options.
Training sessions and admin handbooks.

Extensibility & Integrations

API‑first (REST/JSON) with versioning and webhooks.
Partner portals and SDKs where applicable.
Integrations for payments, KYC/IDV, telco, maps, CRM/ERP, accounting, and messaging.
Plugin/module architecture to add features without core rewrites.