Devdash

Devdash- All-in-one marketplace only for website services.

A Bolt-built marketplace matching clients and web pros with fine details.

Inspiration

I began my career as a graphic designer on online marketplaces. But in the last 4 months I've pivoted only to make websites as it is a huge industry with 200,000 domains being sold every DAY. And I was hungry for leads. I tried every place and suddenly got struck with idea that there is no go-to place for Websites services. Upwork, Fiverr, 99designs all offer website services among their array of other categories. That's why a reliable place only for website service isn't standing out , So instead of looking for something in this category, I've built the category itself.

What it does

Devdash lets clients drop a plain-English brief into an AI input box and instantly see a curated list of professionals filtered by stack, budget, and timeline. One click to hire, Stripe escrow locks the cash, and an all-in-one project hub (milestones, versions, chat, files, billing) keeps both sides on rails until hand-off.

How we built it

• Bolt.new for ~100 % of the codebase—React front-end + serverless functions
  
• Supabase for real-time auth, database, file storage, and message threads
• Github for version control and committing to Netlify
• Netlify for CI/CD + global edge deploys
  
• Stripe for dual-sided 5 % escrow and automated milestone releases
  
• GPT-4 Generates info and drives spec-to-talent matching logic

Challenges we ran into

• Time crunch – planned a 3-month Bubble build; shipped in 10 days for Bolt
  
• Days lost – Spent 4 days on Client profile fetching from Supabase to work smoothly
• Unintended spending – We needed much more tokens to built the final product so far.
• Polishing UX/UI – Constantly looking for inspiration and still trying to make the UX/UI perfect.

Accomplishments we’re proud of

• Built a two sided user handling marketplace in 10 days
• Live MVP handling across 30 providers
  
• End-to-end flow demo in < 3 min
  
• Proved a Bangladeshi solo founder can out-ship her own roadmap when the right tools line up

What we learned

• Niche > generalist – focusing on websites turns fuzzy “gig marketplace” noise into clear value
  
• Stack matters – Supabase + Netlify + Bolt punches far above its weight for rapid, secure builds
  
• Community feedback loops – early users shaped milestones, contracts, and version control faster than any spec doc

What’s next for Devdash

1. Public launch to all social media
   
2. Launch on Product hunt
3. Provide value for service providers an client through content
4. Build community to attract providers (supply)
5. Market our product on social media to attract clients (demand)
6. Hit 1 % of the 45000 active sites launched daily, on track for $1 M+ ARR

Prize categories & why we qualify

• Deploy Challenge (Netlify) We pushed Devdash to production through Github to Netlify. Netlify’s continuous deployment watches every commit, rebuilds the Bolt front-end and serverless functions, and propagates them to its global edge—so judges (and future users) hit sub-100 ms load times no matter where they click. The platform’s built-in "why did it fail" feature saved us lots of tokens on Bolt

• Startup Challenge (Supabase) To prep for millions of users we wired Devdash to Supabase’s Postgres DB + row-level-security auth keeps client and freelancer data isolated; its Storage buckets host project files, and real-time listeners power our live chat and activity log all without custom back-end code. New users land, sign in with a single OAuth click, and see their dashboard populate instantly, reinforcing trust from second one. When usage spikes, we can scale reads with Supabase’s read replicas and keep writing code in Bolt.

(Challenge prizes are explicitly named here and in the demo video, per submission rules.)

Built With

• bolt
• github
• netlify
• supabase