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Case Study

HELM  Hospitality Booking Platform

Marketplace for booking chefs, valets, and more. Migrated from a fragile Replit MVP to a production-grade platform on GCP in just 10 weeks.

Service IconThe Challenge

From MVP Walls to Scalable Foundations

HELM needed to evolve from a brittle MVP into a secure, reliable, and scalable platform without breaking existing user flows. Our challenge was to keep UI parity while rebuilding the entire backend, introducing CI/CD, and ensuring a zero-downtime cutover.

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Built In Replit

Migrate fragile MVP foundations built in Replit into a maintainable codebase, while keeping familiar UI and flows users already trusted.

booking flows

Enable full booking flows — search, select, schedule — with robust roles, permissions, and scalable data handling.

CI/CD pipelines

Establish DevOps maturity through CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards, and structured incident response.

groundwork

Lay the groundwork for expansion into payments, reviews, availability calendars, and advanced marketplace features.

Service IconThe Product

A Hospitality Marketplace Built for Real Users

Each project follows a structured, outcome-driven process. Whether migrating brittle MVPs or scaling live ops, our methods ensure reliability, speed, and measurable impact.

Hospitality Services Catalog Interface

Hospitality Services Catalog

Browse private chefs, valets, and lifestyle providers with clear categories, details, and pricing.

Smart Booking Flow Interface

Smart Booking Flow

End-to-end scheduling, from service search to calendar-based booking and secure confirmations.

User Dashboard Interface

User Dashboard

Personalized hub for managing active bookings, past history, payments, and account preferences.

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Reliable Outcomes,Measureable Impact

Across industries, our work reduces error rates, accelerates releases, and creates platforms ready for growth.

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Delivery

We take MVPs from fragile prototypes to production-ready platforms in under 12 weeks. Speed never comes at the expense of quality or long-term scalability.

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Reliability

Error rates typically drop 60–80% after launch with proper monitoring in place. That means fewer incidents, smoother releases, and happier users.

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Cost sanity

We optimize infrastructure with observability and right-sizing from day one. That keeps cloud costs predictable while scaling sustainably.

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Service IconThe Solution

Fast, Disciplined Migration in 10 Weeks

We rebuilt HELM’s frontend and backend with scalable architecture, introduced observability, and deployed to GCP with confidence. A mix of speed and engineering discipline ensured stability without slowing delivery.

Step 1

Audit & Parity Map

Catalogued every feature, edge case, and data dependency to ensure nothing was lost in transition.

Step 2

UI Port

Completed a 1-week migration to Next.js with cleaner state management, improved error handling, and performance optimizations.

Step 3

Backend Rebuild

Designed modular Express APIs, integrated background jobs, and implemented event-driven workflows using Inngest.

Step 4

Infra & Ops

Set up Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Redis, and CI/CD pipelines with full observability via Sentry and Cloud Logging.

Step 5

Cutover & Stabilize

Executed a blue-green release, closely monitored metrics, and rapidly resolved any post-launch regressions.

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