Marketplace Platform
TradeLynq
A marketplace for finding verified professionals in Trinidad and Tobago.
How it was built
- Problem
- Trinidad's professional services market runs on word-of-mouth and WhatsApp groups. No structured way to find, compare, or trust local professionals across beauty, trades, creative, health, or tech.
- Constraints
- Caribbean payment infrastructure is fragmented — Stripe covers some, but WiPay and FAC are needed for local adoption. Professionals resist onboarding unless the free tier is genuinely useful. Trust signals matter more than features in a market where everyone knows everyone.
- Approach
- Two-sided marketplace: professionals pay for visibility and tools, customers browse free. Supabase RLS for multi-tenant data isolation. Verification flow with document upload and manual review. Stripe for international payments, local gateways on the roadmap.
- Outcome
- Live marketplace with verified professional profiles, category search across 20+ service types, and a payment-gated premium tier.
Stack
Next.js 16React 18TypeScriptSupabaseStripeTailwind 3Vercel
Status
Live in production.
Running at tradelynq.tech ↗