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A marketplace rescoped before it was overbuilt
A property-services marketplace outgrew its platform mid-build. We flagged it early, laid out two paths and helped the founder rescope before overspending.
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What the founder wanted
A platform connecting rental hosts, service providers and a field team: job requests, task assignment and notifications, built on Wix.
What changed
As the scope grew, three features arrived that the platform could not handle properly: messaging between every type of user, invoices that providers send and hosts pay inside the chat, and shareable provider profiles that take payments from people outside the platform.
What we recommended
Two paths, with the cost of each. Scale back on Wix and use outside tools for chat and invoicing, or move to a phased custom build on Next.js, Supabase and Stripe Connect, released one phase at a time.
“…he worked diligently to bring solutions and ideas to support our app development, and helped us to recognize that Wix wasn’t the best platform for our project long term. With his guidance, we are now rescoping the project to ensure that we build to spec.”
