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Spoiler Alert

A real-time B2B marketplace that moves surplus food to businesses and nonprofits before it goes to waste.

Role
MVP engineer
Company
Spoiler Alert
Type
SaaS & platforms
The Spoiler Alert marketplace on a desktop and a phone, with listings and a map
The Spoiler Alert marketplace on a desktop and a phone, with listings and a map

01

The problem

Organizations with surplus food and organic waste needed a fast way to find buyers and nonprofits who could use it, before the window closed.

02

Decisions & trade-offs

Build the marketplace around communication and payment first, since those are what make a match turn into a pickup.

  • In-app messaging and email between buyers and sellers
  • Stripe payments
  • Deployment infrastructure, set up to scale
  • Developer guides, so the internal team could take it over

// stack

  • Node.js
  • Stripe
  • Messaging

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