LConnect

Talent — actors, models, crew — needed somewhere to put their work where the people who hire actually look. Casting offices, production houses and agencies needed to post briefs, find people, and book the studios a shoot needs. Both halves existed; the connection between them was informal and lossy.

A cross-platform app shipped to iOS and Android from one codebase — Ionic and Angular on Capacitor. Talents build a profile and post work; casting offices and production houses post briefs, scout, and book studios or locations in-app.

Behind it, a C#/.NET API with SignalR for realtime and JWT for auth. Booking and scouting are conversations under time pressure, so a status change landing a page-refresh later isn't good enough.

I also built the marketing site and the moderation back-office. That last one matters more than it sounds: a marketplace where anyone can post needs someone able to take things down, and that surface has to exist from the start.

One team, two app stores, a product still finding its shape. Capacitor let the same TypeScript ship to both platforms and made feature parity free rather than something to maintain. The tradeoff is less platform-native feel — and the surface that would have suffered most from it, realtime messaging, is carried by SignalR rather than anything platform-specific.