Pre-launch platform

RideMe

A ride-hailing system for customers, drivers and operations teams, with booking, dispatch, trip safety and settlement workflows.

Role: Full-stack platform engineering
Product surfaces: Customer and driver mobile apps · Customer, driver and admin web · API and workers
Public product: Visit website ↗

RideMe public website on a mobile viewport

RideMe phone and email authentication interface

Product and context.

RideMe is being prepared for a market-by-market launch. Its product surface covers the customer and driver journey, operational oversight, safety, support and the backend processes that move a trip from request to settlement.

Ride-hailing is a stateful, location-aware workflow. Availability, matching, navigation and payments have to agree across customer and driver devices while operations teams retain a clear source of truth.

How the system fits together.

The backend is a NestJS modular monolith backed by PostgreSQL, PostGIS and Prisma. Redis and BullMQ support background work, while Socket.IO handles live trip updates. Next.js and React Native provide the web and mobile product surfaces.

Key workflows

Market-gated customer onboarding and driver approval
Booking, matching and state-driven trip progression
Background driver location and navigation
Safety, support, receipts and settlement

Important integrations

Google Maps
Firebase Cloud Messaging
LiveKit voice
Stripe and Authorize.net adapters
Sentry

Real product surfaces.

Challenges and decisions.

Engineering challenges

Coordinating location and trip state across intermittently connected devices
Separating pre-launch capability from features enabled in a specific market
Making bookings and payment transitions safe to retry

Decisions and trade-offs

Trips follow an explicit state model rather than relying on client-side assumptions.
Bookings and provider callbacks use idempotent server paths.
Market, pricing and payment capabilities are enabled deliberately instead of being implied globally.

Technology

React Native · Next.js · NestJS · PostgreSQL · PostGIS · Prisma · Redis · BullMQ · Socket.IO