The project
Project overview
The Automation Brokers is a marketplace connecting automation solution providers with manufacturers. I was the developer who built and launched it for the client, taking it from a hosted platform base through to a live, public product.
I customised and deployed a self-hosted Sharetribe frontend (on DigitalOcean) and shaped it around how the two sides of the marketplace actually needed to work. Two decisions did most of the heavy lifting: role-based listing visibility, so providers and manufacturers each saw only the other side rather than their own listings, and removing the default Stripe Connect transaction flow to reposition The Automation Brokers as a paid-listing discovery platform rather than a payments-through marketplace.
The outcome was a launched, working product that matched the client’s commercial model, delivered end to end by one person.
