Oaklo · Social Trust Search Platform
Local service search ranked by people you trust — not fake five-star listings
The problem
Oaklo set out to make word-of-mouth digital. Generic review sites bury you in inflated ratings. Oaklo needed a search product that ranks dentists, sitters, realtors, and other local pros by Social Trust™ — recommendations from your network — with AI-generated review summaries on every result.
How we ran it
- 01
Scope search, graph, and mobile as one product
Social Trust scoring, location search, and iOS had to ship together. The brief was graph + messaging + search — not three disconnected hires.
- 02
Match full-stack and iOS against that graph
Placed developers who could read the Recommendation Graph and messaging flows in week one, not after a month of onboarding decks.
- 03
Trial on real search and messaging paths
First work was the product users would actually tap — ranked results, in-app messaging, pro profiles — not a throwaway spike.
- 04
Expand city by city, month-to-month
NYC first, then outward. Same squad on web and iOS as categories (childcare, sitters, realtors) grew.
The team we placed
We matched Oaklo with full-stack and mobile developers who could ship the search experience, Recommendation Graph, and pro profiles together. The team built location-aware search, popular-category tags, in-app messaging, and the Social Trust scoring layer — month-to-month as the product expanded from NYC outward.
Developers placed
2 developers placed
Full-stack / backend · iOS engineer
How we worked
Embedded on their team
Month-to-month
Tech stack
- React
- Node.js
- Swift
- PostgreSQL
- Elasticsearch
- AWS
The outcome
Users search any business or service by location and get results ranked by people they trust. Pros connect directly with no commission. The homepage, iOS app, and pro marketplace run on the same platform — childcare, pet sitters, realtors, and more — without Oaklo hiring a full internal engineering org.
- Platforms
- Web + iOS live
- Pro commission
- 0%
- Search categories
- 15+ service types
Why it worked
- iOS and backend understood the graph and messaging on week one.
- Web and iOS live on the same Social Trust ranking, not two products glued together.
- Pros connect with 0% commission — the marketplace model stayed intact.
- 15+ service types without Oaklo hiring a full internal engineering org.
“The iOS and backend developers Hiring.co placed understood our graph and messaging flows on week one.”
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