Pickuplz

Peer-to-peer courier delivery services marketplace aimed at hard-to-ship or cherished items. Everyone can join and start earning after being approved by a moderation team.

Bringing all the core MVP marketplace technologies in one place to ensure best user experience around one delivery feature: instant chats, double-blind rating system, activity grades, automated payments, easy moderation flow.

Initially built for iOS platform with Laravel-based admin panel with dashboard and users management features. Design was inspired by black-n-white pallet, had even a map tiles customized to match.

One the biggest challenges was to organize logistics of the delivery so driver could plan pickups while on a regular daily routing route. The main use-case was around people with large cards going to/from their main job and pickup deliveries along the route. The second tricky part was to count delivery price based on dimensions and distance.

Two types of users: regular users and drivers. Drivers pass moderation by uploading their docs and having interview (managed via admin panel) before they can start working. Regular users can post a delivery within seconds after registering, their use-cases are inspired by leading apps best practices for "Easy-to-use" smooth experience.

For this project we've build our own chat framework from the group up including web sockets setup and UI itself, which gave us a great experience with such a complex feature commonly used for alike projects.