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Pick your Playground

Pick your Playground helps travelers and local businesses connect through web and mobile experiences built around discovery, listings, and smooth user journeys.

Key outcome

Created a multi-platform product experience that supports both customer discovery and business-facing workflows.

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Project overview

A travel and local discovery platform with a MERN web experience and React Native mobile app.

This project demonstrates Codeers experience connecting public marketing, product web apps, mobile apps, and backend services into one coherent launch path.

Challenges

  • Support both customer-facing discovery and business-facing web workflows.
  • Keep the mobile experience fast and usable across Android and iOS.
  • Coordinate a landing site, web application, backend APIs, and mobile app as one product.

Solution approach

  • Separated public marketing, web application, API, and mobile responsibilities into clear product surfaces.
  • Used a JavaScript-first stack to keep delivery consistent across web and backend work.
  • Focused mobile flows around simple browsing, discovery, and conversion paths.

Features delivered

  • Public website and landing experience
  • Customer and business web application
  • Cross-platform mobile app
  • Backend API layer
  • Listing and discovery-oriented user flows

Architecture overview

  • MERN web application with Node.js services for shared business logic.
  • React Native mobile app consuming backend APIs for consistent product data.
  • Separate marketing layer so public content can evolve independently from app workflows.

Security and reliability

  • API-centered data access keeps business rules centralized.
  • Mobile and web flows can share validation and user-state handling through backend services.
  • Cloud deployment supports controlled releases and maintenance.

Performance and scalability

  • Reusable frontend patterns reduce duplicate work across listing and discovery flows.
  • Backend separation allows the web and mobile apps to scale without duplicating data logic.
  • Marketing and application surfaces can be optimized independently.

Results and impact

  • Expanded the product across public website, web app, and mobile channels.
  • Improved reach for customers using app-store distribution.
  • Created a foundation for growing marketplace and local-discovery workflows.