Lydar
In testingA Brazilian home-services marketplace with client and professional workflows, currently in testing.
This is a marketplace for home services, the trades you call when something in the house breaks. A client posts a job, a professional takes it, and the work happens through the app. Think of the marketplace shape of a freelancing platform, pointed at the people who fix walls and showers instead of the people who write code.
It is built for the Brazilian market first, local before national, the kind of thing where word of mouth and a physical presence do the early work.
Current scope
Lydar is still in testing. The workflows cover accounts, professional browsing, service requests and chat between the two sides.
Clients and professionals arrange payment directly.
Keeping addresses private
A marketplace for home services handles information about where people live. The workflow limits when the exact address becomes available, so people can discuss a request before sharing it. Access rules and the distinction between public and private information are part of the product design.
This page uses the current Lydar name. Its older URL remains in place so links to the original Marido de Aluguel project continue to work.
- Updated the name, app links and testing status. The current product leaves payment to the client and professional to arrange directly.
- Renamed the project Lydar. The original project URL is retained for older links.
- Shipped and verified the first auth slice on a real backend: sign-in, an account that bootstraps on first login, and routes that stay closed until you are in.
- Built the foundation. A location model, a typed data layer that keeps precise addresses locked down, and the app moved onto its design system. Code-verified end to end.
- Published the waitlist. Seven people beyond my testers signed up. I treated that as an early signal to investigate.
- Working session with a local partner. Narrowed the first slice to a small, shippable start.
- Sketched a first architecture and built a click-through demo.
- Locked the product brief and the core idea.