The problem
Booking a tradesperson in the Netherlands remains a phone-tag exercise. Homeowners want a clear scope, prompt quotes, and someone dependable; tradespeople want work that respects their time and language.
Handigwerk
A booking platform for the Dutch home-repair market. Homeowners describe the job, vetted tradespeople respond, and quotes come back the same day.
The approach
I built a Dutch-first intake that captures the full scope of a job in one pass, photos included, so a tradesperson can quote without a phone call. Quotes and messages live in a single thread, and profiles put verified past work front and center. The client wanted to own and extend the platform themselves after launch, so I built it on Bubble. That was the right call for their team, even though it is not my default stack.
The result
The platform launched on schedule and the client now runs and extends it without me. It is designed so a homeowner posts once and collects same-day quotes in one thread, and so the tradespeople they trust are easy to re-book. The shortlist, rather than the search, is the thing they come back for.
10 weeks
From brief to launch
Same day
Quote target
Dutch-first
Language