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Consumer marketplace · 2025

Two-sided rental marketplace, from pitch deck to App Store

Took a founding team from validated idea to a live iOS and Android marketplace with payments, identity checks and an internal moderation console.

Client
Seed-stage marketplace startup
Engagement
18 weeks · 3 engineers
Services
Mobile apps, Custom web applications

18 wks

Idea to both app stores

4,000+

Bookings in the first quarter

Series A

Raised on the launched product

The challenge

The founders had demand on both sides and investor money on a clock. They needed a real product in the stores for a launch window, without building features the first thousand users would never touch.

What we did

  • Scoped to a deliberately narrow first release: list, book, pay, review
  • Split payments and escrow through Stripe Connect, with automated payouts
  • Identity verification and fraud rules built in before launch, not bolted on after
  • An internal console so the team could moderate listings and resolve disputes without engineering help
  • Analytics wired from day one so product decisions came from behavior, not opinion

Tell us what you are trying to build

Bring the problem, not a specification. We will tell you honestly whether custom software is the answer, what it is likely to cost, and how long it will take.

No obligation, no sales script — a 30-minute call to work out whether we can help.