OBJ. 2026-005
Listing card, 2019 Axio
Every car on the island, in your pocket.
Buying a used car in Jamaica has always meant classifieds, phone calls, and a lot of driving to see cars that were gone before you arrived. CarShop puts the whole island's forecourt in your pocket, and browsing it is built to feel at home in your hand, not like a website squeezed onto a small screen.
Filters slide up from the bottom the way they do on a phone you already know; the search remembers where you left off. It shares its bones with a sister marketplace for houses, so both feel like the same well-made thing.
What it does
- 01The island's used-car market in a single pocket-sized place
- 02Browsing that feels like the phone in your hand — quick, smooth, made for one thumb.
- 03One well-made foundation shared with its property-listing sibling
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For the curious — the making of it
React Router 7 + Drizzle on Postgres, a shared design system across CarShop and Jamaica Real Estate, and an own-built OAuth identity service. A documented move off a Phoenix/Next foundation.
- Native-feeling PWA: bottom tab bar, bottom-sheet filters, safe-area insets, press states
- Twin marketplaces (cars and homes) from one shared codebase and design system
- Own OAuth identity service; the CarShop blue to Jamaica Real Estate's emerald