A React admin panel connected to the same event stream as the user app. Use Apache Kafka to replay events (e.g., "Show me why driver #442 declined the order at 2:03 PM").
Don't build a monolith. Grab started with taxis (one service), then added food, then payments, then couriers. If you build one massive codebase for "Ride + Food + Grocery," a bug in the promotion engine will crash your entire fleet of drivers.
A multi-service app requires a robust, scalable architecture. You are not just building an app; you are building a high-concurrency system. how to build a multi-service app like grab
The customer app is 10% of the work. The Operator Dashboard is 90%. Your staff needs to:
Do not build your own payment processing from scratch. Use Stripe Connect (for split payouts) or Adyen (for platform payments). Only build the wallet ledger yourself. A React admin panel connected to the same
We all know the pitch: "We want to build the Grab/Uber for [Your Region]."
Building a Grab clone costs for a v1 that actually works in production. The cheap offshore clones you see for $15k? They crash the moment 100 users open the app simultaneously. Grab started with taxis (one service), then added
To compete with Grab, your app needs three distinct interfaces (panels) that work in perfect harmony.
