Eshka helps people sell and buy household items, cars & electronics, find professionals for current projects, and find tenants or housing for rent - all locally.
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We were approached by a customer in the Russian Far East who decided to create a local service exchange for the residents of his town and surrounding areas.

He planned to use it in his town and then scale to other regions.

Unlike other similar apps, Eshka allows users not only to search for the products on sale they need, but to place requests in "Buy" as well.

The Сustomer already had a design and prototypes.

We needed to write up a detailed project package and develop apps for iOS and Android.

Eshka consists of two large modules:
ads module (search, view, create, edit, elevate, pay, publish) and messenger module (chats, correspondence, media messages, blocking).
We chose our back-end solution for the ads module, while the messenger was designed based on Firebase services.
We have experience in using our own back-end solutions for a messenger, but it certainly requires organizing a sophisticated infrastructure for load balancing, backup management and cyber protection, as well as coordination of a whole software engineering team.
This would be more expensive for the Customer, so we chose ready-made Firebase.
Alexander Khrushchev, WINFOX Technical Director
The Firebase technology allows guaranteed messaging and does not require any significant costs at the initial stage of app launch.
The ads module does not depend on the messenger module and turned out compact, light and convenient for support and development purposes.