Daytrip
Daytrip is a global private-transfer platform — everything from a get-me-from-the-airport ride to multi-day itineraries with local drivers. Focused worked on the product for four years across all four surfaces that matter: the traveller website and mobile app, the management portal, and the driver mobile app.
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The traveller website
daytrip.com itself — from marketing landing pages and SEO content through to the booking funnel: route search, vehicle selection, online payment. The work covered both halves: the pages where a traveller decides, and the booking flow they move through to complete the purchase — desktop and mobile, across 120+ markets.
The traveller mobile app
The app travellers use to book city-to-city transfers, day trips with curated stops, an hourly driver and airport pickups. The work covered onboarding, the search interface, vehicle selection (sedan / MPV / van) with real-time pricing, the payment flow, and a Trips section for managing upcoming and completed journeys. The priorities were booking speed, a clean interface, and dependable behaviour on a weak signal — which is the normal case when you are travelling abroad.
The driver management portal
The web environment where drivers manage their profile, vehicles, availability, billing and their conversations with the operations team. Trip details, documents, payouts and itinerary changes all land here. The work involved forms-heavy UI, role-based access, and the same data layer the mobile app reads from, so information stays consistent across surfaces.
The driver mobile app
The driver app is the operational spine of the business — nothing moves without it. QA covered the public-offer feed, personalised offers, combo rides (two consecutive trips paid as one), real-time tracking during a journey with customer-on-board and drop-off confirmation, and a Future rides module for planning ahead. GPS, push notifications and reliability that has to hold: when a driver is waiting outside a hotel at six in the morning, the app works first time or not at all.
AI document-validation automation
An AI layer in the management portal that automates validation of driver documents — a process that used to be done entirely by hand. It replaced slow manual review, cut driver onboarding time significantly, and removed a large share of the operations cost that would otherwise have grown with every new market.
Scaling and quality
Over four years the platform went from one country to more than 120. Much of the work was not features: it was performance, crash rate, monitoring, and refactoring toward an architecture that could carry the growth across both web and mobile. Sentry, custom telemetry, A/B tests on the booking flow, and bundle-size work for the slow networks common in emerging markets.
Over four years, hundreds of releases went through QA across the web, the traveller app and the driver app. Building the product itself was the work of Daytrip's internal teams — our part was verifying what shipped.
- Traveller web and mobile app — transfer booking, day trips, hourly driver, airport transfers
- Management portal and driver mobile app — public offers, combo rides, real-time tracking
- AI document-validation automation — substantially lower ops cost and faster driver onboarding
- iOS, Android and web · hundreds of thousands of users across 120+ countries
- Joined at ~20 people in the company, left at ~150
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