Lance Craft

A two-sided marketplace for the event industry: freelancers find gigs, businesses hire planners, florists, and creatives. Built full-stack at Pixel Genesys — React Native clients and the APIs behind discovery, hiring, chat, and bookings.

Play Store

App Store

Challenge

Event work still lives in DMs and last-minute group texts. Freelancers can’t see real local gigs; businesses can’t hire a florist or planner without a private network. The industry needed a marketplace, not another job board.

Solution

Shipped both sides of the market: a freelancer app to discover opportunities and a business app to hire, message, and book. Shared backend for profiles, jobs, communication, and reputation — so hiring isn’t a screenshot of a group chat.

Architecture

01Two React Native clients — freelancer and business
02Shared API for jobs, profiles, hiring, and bookings
03Realtime chat for collaboration
04Local discovery of event opportunities
05Reputation and professional network as platform features

Engineering challenges

Owned full-stack delivery: dual mobile surfaces on one job/hiring domain.
Marketplace matching as product — find work and hire help — not two directories that never meet.
Store-ready on the App Store and Google Play under Pixel Genesys.

Technologies

React NativeNode.jsTypeScriptRealtime chat

Outcome

Live as Lance Craft on the App Store and Google Play — the event-industry marketplace for freelancers and the businesses that hire them.