Senior engineers who have designed and shipped real-time platforms — now building yours. Delivery apps, two-sided marketplaces, gig economy platforms, and home services products. Driver apps, customer apps, and operations dashboards — all as one coordinated engagement.
Discuss Your Project →An on-demand platform is not one product — it is three. We build the customer app, the provider app, and the operations dashboard as a single coordinated engagement.
Order management, dispatch engine, driver assignment, real-time tracking, proof of delivery, and route optimisation — the full delivery platform stack.
Supply and demand matching, provider onboarding, trust and safety tooling, review systems, and the commission engine that makes the business model work.
Live driver/provider location on the customer map, ETA calculation, geofencing triggers, route replay for support, and time-series location analytics.
iOS and Android apps for the supply side — job acceptance, navigation, availability toggle, earnings dashboard, document uploads, and offline-resilient job management.
Appointment-based booking for cleaning, trades, beauty, and personal services — availability calendars, recurring bookings, provider profiles, and review management.
Flexible worker management, shift marketplace, qualification verification, payment processing, and the compliance tooling needed for independent contractor models.
Stripe Connect integration: platform fee collection, provider onboarding, split payouts, dispute resolution, refund flows, and 1099 tax form generation.
Live order map, dispatcher tools, provider management, revenue reporting, SLA monitoring, customer support tools, and fraud detection dashboards.
Template-based marketplace builders (Sharetribe, Marketplacer) work for simple peer-to-peer listings. Real-time tracking, custom dispatch logic, driver app offline handling, split-second matching algorithms, and complex payout rules are not template territory. These are architecture problems that require experienced engineers who have built similar systems in production.
On-demand platforms require tight coordination between the customer app, driver app, backend, and real-time infrastructure. Large agencies often split this across teams — and the seams show. Inconsistent state management, tracking lag, payout bugs. We design all three products together from one architecture, which eliminates an entire class of integration problems.
You need mobile engineers, a backend engineer, and a real-time systems specialist — at minimum. A solo freelancer cannot cover this. Multiple freelancers without coordination create systems that work in isolation but fail under real usage patterns. Our studio brings all three skill sets under one roof, working from a single coherent design.
Marketplace platforms almost always start as an two-sided MVP and evolve through ongoing product scaling engagements as supply and demand grow. See our full set of capabilities, read about how we work, or learn more about the team behind The Yellow Labs.
We bill hourly from $40/hr. A two-sided marketplace with customer app, provider app, and admin dashboard typically runs 400–900 hours. A delivery or logistics platform with real-time tracking, dispatch engine, and driver app generally falls between 500–1,100 hours. We scope carefully upfront, provide weekly hour reports, and never pad estimates.
Real-time tracking is an architecture decision, not just a feature. We use WebSockets or Socket.IO for live location streaming between driver and customer apps, with geohashing for efficient proximity queries. On mobile, we handle background location updates properly — including the iOS and Android lifecycle quirks that cause most amateur implementations to fail. Driver location is stored as time-series data for route replay and analytics.
Stripe Connect is the industry standard for two-sided marketplace payments. We set up the platform fee model, handle provider onboarding (identity verification, bank account collection), manage split payouts, and handle refund flows. For gig economy platforms we also handle 1099/tax form generation requirements. We design the payment flow to handle the edge cases — partial refunds, dispute resolution, payout holds — from the start.
Yes. A complete on-demand platform requires at minimum three products: a customer-facing app, a driver/provider app, and an operations dashboard. We build all three as a single coordinated engagement. Using React Native we deliver iOS and Android from one codebase per app — keeping the project lean without compromising on native performance.
Matching logic depends on the platform type. For delivery: nearest available driver with capacity, routing via Google Maps Routes API or OSRM. For home services: skill matching, calendar availability, and location radius. For gig platforms: real-time bidding or direct assignment. We design the matching engine as a separate service so it can be tuned independently of the rest of the platform.
Yes. Home services marketplaces (cleaning, plumbing, beauty, tutoring) share the two-sided marketplace architecture but have different scheduling logic — pre-booked appointments rather than instant dispatch, availability calendars, recurring bookings, and review systems that weight recency. We have built platforms in this category and understand the nuances.
Whichever capability you came here to read about, the way we engage usually depends on which stage your product is in. Pick the path that matches yours.
Have an idea that needs validating? Prove technical feasibility first.
Ready to put a real product in front of users? Build the smallest version that proves the market.
MVP is live and learning? Evolve it with continuous development.
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