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Carlink — used-car marketplace platform

The 2025 build: buyer-to-seller chat with voice messages, dealer accounts, and posting a listing to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok in one action. Succeeded by the rebuilt CarLink marketplace.

Client
Carlink
Industry
Automotive
Year
2025
Duration
26 weeks
Challenge

The problem we walked into.

Dealers were losing hours re-posting the same vehicle to four social networks by hand, and buyers' questions arrived across as many channels — so the answer came late, or never. The car sold elsewhere while the message sat unread.

Approach

How we framed it.

Put every conversation in one inbox, and make listing a vehicle everywhere a single action rather than four. Voice messages, because a dealer at a forecourt will record ten seconds of audio but will not type a paragraph.

Solution

What we shipped.

A marketplace where buyers and sellers talk in one thread — text or voice — and a dealer lists a vehicle once for it to appear across four social networks, with staff accounts and sales analytics behind it.

Features
  • One inbox for every buyer conversation, with voice messages as well as text
  • List a vehicle once; it posts to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok
  • Dealer accounts with staff invitations and per-role access
  • The same experience on the web, iPhone and Android
  • Sales and listing analytics for dealers
Results
3 platforms
Web, iPhone and Android
4 networks
One listing, posted everywhere
Shipped
Full production rollout
Tech stack
Laravel 12Nuxt 3Flutter 3PostgresRedisLaravel EchoPrometheus
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