Dibs

An online aggregate marketplace for cars. We take your search query, match it against multiple different buy/sell websites, and then notify you whenever there are new listings.

What i did

There are 3 of us building the product - one designer, one backend, and myself who built the web application.

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We started back in August 2020 and managed to release that December. The backend was built sometime before this, with the generalised idea of being a marketplace aggregation tool . With dibs, we wanted to make a POC for this sort of product, as we see there being much broader applications - expectedly in niche markets with fast transactional turnarounds.

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I built the frontend using a pretty familiar stack so that we could execute quickly.

  • The foundation was built React & Typescript, styled-components with a custom Material UI theme, especially for our more complex UI components.

  • For state, we used react-sweet-state (shameless Atlassian plug)

  • Amplitude for analytic user behaviour tracking.

  • In the process with integrating with Optimizely for feature rollouts & experimentation

  • Git (hub) for code storing, Jira & Confluence for documentation.

While working on this project, I was able to collaborate with the designer quite closely (I was lucky enough to have worked with both previously at Roam creative) and I picked up a bunch of design techniques along the way. They've been invaluable as I've been able to not only bring the skills into my contracting work, but also build my products with a design first mindset.