Brian Omariba
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Dossier /06 Cyber café administration Live

HawkNine

The cyber café taught me systems. Years later I wrote one for it.

An administration dashboard for cyber café operations — the business where this whole path started, finally running on software instead of a notebook.

Category
Operations dashboard
Role
Design & engineering
Stack
To confirm
Status
Live
01 — Problem

A cash box, a notebook, and no idea which machine earns.

A cyber café is a small business with a surprising number of moving parts: machines and their hours, walk-in services, printing and stationery, staff shifts, and a cash drawer that has to reconcile at the end of the day.

Almost all of it is traditionally tracked on paper. The owner knows roughly what came in, and nothing about which service or which machine actually produced it.

This one is personal. The cyber café is where I started — paying by the minute on a machine that was not mine. Writing the software that runs one closes a loop.

Machine hours
Walk-in services
Printing & stationery
Staff shifts
Daily cash
Per-service margin
02 — System

An administration console for the day.

A dashboard over day-to-day café operations, so the owner can see the business rather than reconstruct it from a notebook each evening.

The live system describes itself as a cyber café admin dashboard built to manage your cybercafe with ease. Its interior screens are behind authentication.

HawkNine interface

admin.hawkninegroup.com — the live administration console.

03 — Documentation

This dossier is deliberately short.

The system is live and in use, but I have not yet written up its architecture, data model or rollout the way the other dossiers on this site are written up.

Rather than pad it with plausible-sounding detail, the sections below stay empty until they can be filled from the project record.

Architecture — to document   Stack — to confirm   Outcome — to be measured