The One Privacy Rule That Shaped the Whole Platform
Every platform has one rule that, if you trace it, explains half the codebase. For MaidsMe it is this, no worker’s phone…
Blog
Every post, newest first. Each one is a step in a project I am building.
The Moment I Decided to Tear Down My Own Design
Tearing down your own working code is a specific kind of pain. Version one of MaidsMe worked, two login systems, two dashboards,…
My First Marketplace Design: Two Logins and a Chat in the Middle
My first design for MaidsMe was symmetrical, and the symmetry felt like quality. Two kinds of users, so two of everything, a…
Building a Marketplace for Domestic Workers, and the Weight of It
After the limo plugin, my next build carried a different kind of weight. MaidsMe Pro is a job marketplace for domestic workers…
What Building My Most Ambitious Project Really Taught Me
The limo booking plugin was the most ambitious thing I had built, and the most humbling. A complete ride platform as a…
The Human Touches That Make a Service Real
By this point the limo plugin had its booking flow, its payments, its driver side, and an app like feel. But a…
Achievable Wins: A Booking History and an App-Like Feel
After live tracking humbled me, I wanted wins that would fully land. Two were sitting right there, a booking history so returning…
Live Tracking: The Feature That Looked Easy and Humbled Me
Every ride app has the map, the little car crawling toward the pickup pin, and I wanted it badly for the limo…
Building the Driver Side: Dashboards and Drag-to-Assign
A booking that no driver knows about is just a database row. The other half of a ride platform is dispatch, the…
Adding Card Payments With Stripe, and the Weight of Handling Money
Adding card payments changed how the whole project felt. Every feature before this, a bug meant inconvenience. A payments bug means someone’s…