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Automart

A vehicle and marine marketplace for the Maldives, with a directory of garages and parts dealers.

Automart lets people buy, sell and rent cars, motorcycles, pickups, vans and boats across the Maldives. Sellers post a listing, pay for it by card, and manage it from their own dashboard. Buyers browse and filter by category, island, condition and price, then contact sellers directly by phone or WhatsApp. Alongside the marketplace sits a business directory where garages and parts dealers keep a public profile with photos, opening hours, services and customer reviews. We took it from a design mockup to a full production application — accounts, payments, photo handling and a staff back office — spanning 60 routes, 144 React components, 24 database migrations and around 40,000 lines of application code.

Technologies Used

Next.js 16React 19TypeScriptTailwind CSS v4Radix UISupabaseBML ConnectVercel
Automart

Key Features

01

Browse & Filter

Category and island filters, search, infinite scroll, featured listings, photo galleries and full vehicle specifications.

02

Guided Listing Flow

Sellers can start listing without an account, then complete a step-by-step flow through photos, details, duration and payment.

03

Maldives Vehicle Catalogue

A Maldives-specific catalogue of around 1,270 models and variants that auto-fills engine size, fuel, transmission and drive type.

04

Card Payments

Listings and directory subscriptions are paid for by card through Bank of Maldives Connect.

05

SMS Verification

Sellers verify their mobile number by SMS before a listing goes live, keeping the marketplace accountable.

06

Seller Dashboard

Edit listings, mark items as sold, republish when a listing expires, and track view and contact counts.

07

Business Directory

Garages and parts dealers apply, get approved, pay an annual subscription, then manage their own page — description, photos, opening hours, services and replies to reviews.

08

Listing Moderation

Staff review submissions with per-photo approval, alongside a reports queue and review moderation.

09

Admin Back Office

User management, directory management, editable site content, banner advertising, pricing control, catalogue management, discount coupons and email broadcasts — with every staff action recorded in an audit log.

10

Direct Contact & Sharing

Buyers reach sellers by phone or WhatsApp, and listings share cleanly to WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook and Telegram.

11

Mobile-First with Dark Mode

Built mobile-first throughout, with light and dark themes and SMS-based sign-in.

12

SEO & Social Previews

Listing pages are SEO-friendly and generate social preview cards so shared links look right everywhere.

We came to SerialTech Lab with a design and not much else. They turned it into a working marketplace — listings, card payments, SMS verification, and a back office my staff actually use every day. It launched working.

Abdulla Hussain

Owner, Automart