Wave
Client
MOBILE
Wave
A cross-platform mobile marketplace connecting maritime crew with yacht and ship recruiters, with messaging, video calls, and subscriptions.
Technology
Industry
Mobile App Development
Services
Romania
Region
2025-present
Year
A hiring marketplace for the water.
Wave connects maritime crew members with yacht and ship recruiters, which meant building a complete cross-platform app: role-based onboarding, a job marketplace, real-time messaging, video calling, and subscription billing, all from a single codebase on iOS and Android.
Two sides
Serve crew and recruiters
Real-time
Messaging and video in real time
Billing
Multiple subscription tiers
Cross-platform
One codebase, two app stores
A cross-platform hiring app, built end to end.
We built role-based onboarding for crew (experience, skills, documents, availability) and recruiters (company, vessels, preferences), a job feed with server-side filtering, saved searches, a recruiter dashboard, and a full application flow. Crew profiles include a document vault that tracks certification expiry; recruiter profiles cover vessel management and seat-limited team invitations. The app adds a dual review system, real-time messaging over Laravel Echo and Pusher, native video calling with Stream Video and VoIP push, multi-tier subscriptions through RevenueCat, push notifications through Firebase and Notifee, and localisation in English, German, Spanish, and French. It runs on React Native and Expo with a Laravel and MySQL backend.
From architecture to a production release: architect, build, ship.
01.
Architecture
Set up the app, the REST API, and the native modules for calling, notifications, and in-app purchases.
02.
Build
Built around 86 screens and a full design system on the frontend, and a REST API with auth, business logic, and third-party webhooks on the backend.
03.
Real-time and billing
Stream Video calling with VoIP push, and RevenueCat subscriptions with an idempotent webhook pipeline gating features by entitlement.
04.
Launch
Shipped to production on both iOS and Android.
The numbers speak.
86
App screens
4
Languages supported
iOS + Android
From one codebase
Live
Video calls and messaging
From onboarding flows to a production release on both stores, on a single React Native codebase with a Laravel backend.
A marketplace in your customers' pockets
We built Wave a cross-platform app connecting maritime crew with recruiters, with messaging, video calls, and subscriptions. If your business connects two sides, an app can do it better.
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