02Marketplace

Local Wheels — Vehicle Rentals Marketplace

Local Wheels is a two-sided marketplace for everyday vehicle rentals. Renters browse verified hosts on a map-first interface, see live availability, and message the host directly inside the platform. Hosts manage listings, calendars, pricing rules, and earnings from a single dashboard built around the realities of running a small fleet.

Web
Year
2025
Client
Local Wheels
Role
Design + full-stack
Industry
Marketplace
Local Wheels — Vehicle Rentals Marketplace

What we built

A marketplace that turns informal car-share into a trusted, searchable product.

For renters

  • Map-first browsing with viewport search and clusters.
  • Real availability with per-day pricing rules.
  • In-platform messaging and a transparent inquiry-to-handover flow.

For hosts

  • Single dashboard for listings, calendars, pricing, and earnings.
  • Verification flow with required photos, IDs, and lease terms.
  • Featured placement managed by the platform's admin queue.
02Capabilities

The full
build stack.

We move across the stack so you don’t have to coordinate four agencies. Discovery, design, engineering, data, and operations under one roof — with seniors on the keyboard, not just the kickoff deck.
  • Discovery workshops → clickable prototype → production scope
  • Design systems, motion, and accessibility baked in from day one
  • Post-launch care: monitoring, on-call, and incremental releases
  • Senior engineers on the keyboard from day one — no offshored juniors
  • Weekly demos, written changelogs, and one Slack channel per project

14 practice areas — we mix only the lanes your roadmap actually needs.

First reply
< 24h
Median delivery
10 weeks
Production uptime
99.95%

Web platforms

Marketing sites, portals, and dashboards built on a modern stack — strong typography, snappy interactions, and SEO that actually ranks.

Next.jsTailwindRSC

Marketplaces

Two-sided products with real moderation, payments, and search — not a Facebook group with a logo.

StripePostgresMapLibre

Mobile apps

Cross-platform apps shipped to App Store and Play with shared design tokens and push notifications.

ExpoReact Native

AI & automation

LLM-backed assistants, intake copilots, and document understanding — typed JSON in, useful actions out.

OpenAIVercel AIpgvector

Integrations

Connecting CRMs, calendars, billing, mail, and government systems so the team stops copying values between tabs.

WebhooksOAuthCron

Data & search

Pragmatic data models, fast indexes, full-text and vector search, daily syncs — the boring parts done right.

PrismaElasticpgvector

Security & access control

Role-based permissions, audit trails, session hardening, and secrets management so regulated teams can sleep at night.

RBACNextAuthAudit logs

Design systems & brand

Coherent typography, spacing, motion, and dark-mode-ready palettes — plus reusable components so every screen feels like one product.

FigmaTokensMotion

Messaging & notifications

Transactional email, in-app threads, digest jobs, and optional SMS or push — wired to real templates and delivery monitoring.

NodemailerQueuesWebhooks

Privacy & compliance

Data minimisation, retention policies, export/delete flows, and consent-aware tracking so you stay aligned with GDPR-style expectations.

GDPREncryptionExports

Analytics & observability

Event pipelines, funnels, error tracking, and uptime dashboards — know what broke, who felt it, and whether the last deploy helped.

EventsSentryLogs

Cloud & DevOps

Preview environments, database migrations, blue-green deploys, and infra-as-code so releases are boring in the best way.

VercelCI/CDPostgres

Platform engineering

Internal tools, admin consoles, feature flags, and shared libraries that let your product team ship without waiting on a platform team.

Admin UIFlagsSDKs

Performance & Core Web Vitals

Image optimisation, streaming, edge caching, and bundle discipline — fast on 3G, smooth with reduced motion, and measurable in Lighthouse.

RSCCDNLighthouse
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