Upcoming from TheRare Visuals
A photographer near you, today.
Our studio work is booked weeks ahead. Shootlo is the other half: a marketplace of verified photographers and videographers you can book for the same day, from your phone. We're building it now, and piloting it in Mysuru during Dasara.
How it will work
Four steps, no back-and-forth on WhatsApp, and a fixed price before you book.
Tell us where and when
Pick a spot in the city and a time: now, later today, or a day you choose.
A verified photographer accepts
The shoot is offered to the best-matched photographers nearby, a few at a time.
Watch them arrive
Follow them on a live map, then share a 4-digit code to start the shoot.
Photos the same day
Edited previews within hours, the full gallery soon after.
Where it stands
- Customer, photographer and ops screens (done)
- Booking, payment and refunds end to end (done)
- Live tracking, uploads and sign-in (done)
- Notifications and masked calling (planned)
- Mysuru pilot · Dasara, 11–21 October (planned)
Built with Next.js, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL on Google Cloud, the same stack behind this site.
Developer document
The problems, and how each one is solved
We keep a working engineering document for Shootlo: the hard parts of building a same-day marketplace, the design we settled on for each, and what is still open. It's updated as the product changes.
- The shape of the problem
- Matching when supply is scarce
- Money that must never get stuck
- Cancellations, refunds and no-shows
- Location from a browser
- Trust between two strangers