recu.
Where fashion finds a second life and new style finds its first home.
We built Recu for people who see fashion as expression, not consumption. A buyer discovers curated listings on a visual feed, messages the seller, bookmarks favorites and buys with confidence. A seller photographs an item, prices it, tags it and watches it find the right wardrobe. One app, two sides of the same closet.
Warm, curated, effortless.
Recu looks the way a well-organized closet feels. Muted sage greens and warm peach tones set a calm backdrop that lets the fashion do the talking. No visual noise, no marketplace clutter. Every screen earns the user's attention with restraint.
Every screen tells a story.
A marketplace that feels like a lookbook.
01Visual product feed
Card-based grid with photos, prices, seller ratings and category filters. Scroll like a magazine, shop like a marketplace.
02Seller dashboard
Upload photos, set prices, tag categories, track sales and manage inventory. A listing goes live in under two minutes.
03In-app messaging
Conversations tied to listings with real-time delivery and push notifications. Negotiate and finalize without leaving the app.
04Social features
Follow users, wishlist items, get notified about deals and new listings from sellers you trust.
Browse. Buy. Sell.
Three actions that cover the entire marketplace experience.
Browse the feed
Scroll a visual grid of listings filtered by category, price and condition. Tap any card to see the full product story.
Chat and buy
Message the seller directly from the listing. Negotiate, ask questions and finalize the deal without leaving the app.
List in minutes
Snap a photo, set the price, pick new or used, add tags and publish. Your listing is live and searchable immediately.
Cross-platform speed. Server-side reliability.
Our Flutter app development delivers a native-feeling iOS experience from a single Dart codebase. A Laravel backend on MySQL handles listings, messaging, notifications and real-time inventory sync.
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Backend
Design meets function.
Hover each card to reveal how we solved it.
The interface had to feel editorial without sacrificing marketplace functionality. Buyers expect a visual, scroll-friendly feed. Sellers expect fast uploads and clear analytics. Both need to coexist on the same screen without clutter.
We designed a card-based feed that prioritizes product photography. Each card shows the image, price, seller rating and distance at a glance. The detail page expands into a full product story with comments, tags and a buy button. Sellers get a separate dashboard with sales tracking and inventory management.
Inventory had to update in real time across every device. When a seller marks an item as sold, every buyer viewing that listing needs to see it disappear instantly. Stale listings erode trust faster than anything else in a marketplace.
A Laravel backend pushes inventory state changes through real-time events. When a listing sells, every client viewing it receives the update within seconds. The same pipeline handles price changes, new comments and status toggles.
Buyers and sellers had to communicate seamlessly without leaving the app. Negotiations, questions about condition, shipping details — all of it needs to happen in one thread tied to the listing, not over email or a separate chat app.
We built an in-app messaging system tied to each listing. A buyer taps a chat icon on any product, the conversation opens with the listing context already attached. Sellers see all their active threads in one inbox sorted by recency.
Questions before the first stitch.
Building a fashion marketplace app typically costs between $50,000 and $170,000 in 2026. A lean MVP with listings, search and basic messaging starts near $50,000. A production build with real-time inventory, in-app chat, push notifications, seller analytics and admin tools usually lands between $100,000 and $170,000.
Flutter works well for marketplace apps because it delivers a native-feeling experience on iOS and Android from one codebase. Development is faster, the UI is consistent across platforms and the community of packages covers payments, chat and push notifications. Native makes sense when platform-specific hardware features are critical, but most marketplaces do not need that.
Real-time inventory in a marketplace app uses server-sent events or WebSockets to push state changes to every connected client. When a seller marks an item as sold or changes a price, the backend broadcasts the update. Every buyer viewing that listing sees the change within seconds without refreshing.
In-app messaging for a marketplace ties each conversation to a specific listing. When a buyer opens a chat, the listing context is already attached. Messages are stored server-side, delivered in real time through WebSockets and backed by push notifications for offline users. Sellers see all threads in one inbox.
A fashion marketplace needs at minimum: product listings with photos and categories, search and filters, user profiles with ratings, in-app messaging, push notifications, a wishlist or save feature and a seller dashboard for managing inventory. Payments and shipping integration can follow in a v2.
A marketplace app with Flutter typically takes 4 to 6 months from kickoff to launch. Expect 2 to 3 weeks of discovery, 12 to 16 weeks of development covering buyer and seller flows, 2 weeks of closed beta with real users and 1 to 2 weeks for App Store review and launch prep.
Product photography in a marketplace app is handled through the device camera and gallery. The app compresses and optimizes images on upload, stores them on cloud storage and serves them through a CDN for fast loading. Sellers can upload multiple photos per listing and reorder them before publishing.
Yes. The listing model includes a condition field — new or used — that filters into search and browse. Buyers can filter by condition, and sellers tag each listing at creation time. The same infrastructure handles both without separate code paths or databases.
Planning a marketplace or e-commerce app?
We build mobile marketplaces that handle listings, messaging and real-time inventory. Tell us about your concept and we will scope it out.