Work · Marketplace · Mobile app · Website · Backend
SZAKI
SZAKI connects customers with local professionals. Customers post jobs, receive offers, chat and rate. Professionals browse jobs, send offers and hold verified profiles. SLENAY designed and built the whole product: website, mobile app, backend and admin.
- 112service categories
- 3languages: Hungarian, English, German
- 2ways to hire: job offers or direct booking
- E2Eend-to-end encrypted chat and media
The challenge
Finding a reliable local professional usually means calling around, comparing unclear quotes and hoping for the best. Professionals, in turn, spend time chasing leads instead of doing the work.
“Plumber at night? Hairdresser tomorrow? A lawyer for the contract?”
The idea
One marketplace, two ways to hire. Customers post a job and receive offers — or book a professional directly. Everyone communicates in the app, and customers rate the professionals they hire.
- Post a job, compare offers, accept
- Or book a time slot directly
- Chat inside the app
- Ratings after completed work
Product thinking
Three layers on one foundation: customers, professionals, and businesses with teams and locations. Each layer extends the product without breaking the one beneath it.
- 112 trades in one marketplace
- One account, two roles: customer and professional
- Szaki Business: companies with locations, teams and service catalogues
- A leaderboard ranking professionals by completed work and genuine reviews
Three layers, one foundation
- 01CustomersPost a job, compare offers, accept — or book a time slot directly.
- 02ProfessionalsOne account, two roles: customer and professional.
- 03BusinessesSzaki Business: companies with locations, teams and service catalogues.
UX
Every flow is designed to be finished on a phone, in minutes, by someone who is not technical.
- A guided ten-step flow to post a job
- Offers and counter-offers in both directions
- Direct booking from a professional's real weekly availability
- Identity verification before a customer can post a job
Posting a job, step by step
- 01Category
- 02Subcategory
- 03Description
- 04Photos
- 05Video
- 06Location
- 07Date
- 08Urgency
- 09Price range
- 10Review
Design
A distinct identity, one set of design tokens shared by every screen, and full light and dark modes — in three languages, chosen at registration.
- Brand identity and logo
- Design tokens across every screen
- Light and dark mode
- Hungarian, English and German
The SZAKI palette, from the app
- Candy Blue#B2D5E5
- Primary#31799B
- Blue 900#163746
- Navy 800#0F1B2E
- Gray 50#F7F9FC
Website
A marketing website with a live professional search, store links, legal pages, and the account-deletion and email-action pages the app links to.
- Hungarian, English and German
- Live professional search
- How it works, features and help sections
- Store links, legal and account-deletion pages
Mobile application
iOS and Android from one codebase, with push notifications, a map view and media that uploads straight to storage.
- iOS and Android from one codebase
- Push notifications
- Photo, video, voice, location and document sharing
- Map view
Systems
Behind the app: authentication, a real-time database, file storage, server-side functions and security rules — plus an admin panel for verification, reports, suspensions and promotions, protected by two-factor authentication. Chat and media are end-to-end encrypted.
- Authentication and security rules
- Admin panel with two-factor authentication
- Verification, reports, suspensions and promotions
- End-to-end encrypted chat and media
Launch
SZAKI is in pre-launch: iOS builds are in testing, the website is live, and development continues toward store release.
- iOS builds in TestFlight
- Marketing website live
- Next: store release
- iOS builds in TestFlight
- Marketing website live
- Next: store release
We only show what is real. SZAKI is in pre-launch, so we publish no user numbers or revenue — there is nothing to inflate.
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