Construction.co.ke
A marketplace for equipment rental and labour contracts, quoted and escrowed, with a materials store. A PHP scaffold built from a written PRD, user flows, database schema and API spec.
Why you would want this
Rent equipment and hire crews with quotes and payment held in escrow, so both sides can start work without trust issues.
Hiring an excavator or a crew depends on who you know. Prices are unclear, payment disputes are common, and idle equipment earns nothing.
What it does for the business
Put idle equipment to work
Owners list machines and crews, and buyers find them by category, which turns unused capacity into income for the platform and its members.
Remove the trust barrier
Quoted prices and escrowed payment protect both sides, which is what makes a stranger's job feel safe to accept.
Sell materials on the same platform
A store for cement, ballast, blocks and tools adds steady, repeat transactions next to the larger contracts.
Why people want it
- Post a project once and receive quotes, instead of phoning around.
- Equipment, crews and materials in one place, which builders will otherwise chase across three.
- Escrow gives serious buyers and serious suppliers a reason to prefer it over a handshake.
Built for
Founders and construction suppliers who want a marketplace for equipment hire, labour and materials.
What’s inside
- Equipment directory
- Crew directory
- Materials and tools store
- Post-a-project flow for quotes
- Sign-up and log-in
Want one like this?
Every business is different, so treat this as a starting point. The estimate shows what it would take to build something of similar scope, line by line, in USD and Kenyan shillings.
- 2026
- Live · private repo
- PHP, Hack, JavaScript, CSS
- Sep 2026