Design Market
A marketplace for interior pieces that lives inside Telegram: posting a listing, moderation, holds and publishing to the channel — without a jump to a browser.
The problem
Luxury interiors are sold on the photograph and the seller’s reputation, not on a price filter. Pieces lived in personal accounts and spreadsheets: a buyer could not compare two offers, and a seller could not tell what had been viewed.
What was needed was a shopfront with a large frame, a calm grid, and a category page that opens instantly — even with thousands of listings.
Catalogue and search
Categories, periods, materials and designers. Search understands morphology: “brass sconces” finds “sconce made of brass”.
Seller account
Bulk listing upload, drafts, and view and enquiry statistics for each piece.
Moderation
A queue with rejection reasons and an edit history: in the luxury trade the platform answers for listing quality, not the seller.
Sourcing requests
A buyer describes what they want in words — the request goes to the right sellers and the replies gather in one place.
The concept mockup of the shopfront — how the project looked on paper before the first build.
And these are screenshots of the running mini app. The whole path — from posting a listing to publishing it to the channel — happens inside Telegram, without a single jump to a browser.
The catalogue as static pages
Category and listing pages are generated ahead of time and reindexed on a “listing passed moderation” event. A category opens in a fraction of a second and does not depend on database load.
Photographs in three sizes
A seller uploads a 20-megapixel original and gets back three crops in AVIF and WebP with the proportions preserved. Mobile traffic for the catalogue dropped several times over and the frame stayed large.
Search across Russian morphology
A PostgreSQL full-text index with a dictionary and domain synonyms: two spellings of “art deco” lead to the same results, and designers’ names do not fall apart across grammatical cases.
A catalogue that opens faster than the buyer can change their mind.