Gokada motorbike ride-hailing app: 325,000 completed rides in year one
- Geolocation integration
- Marketplace
Gokada, Lagos: Brocoders built the rider and driver apps in React Native, the Node.js back end and the admin panel, with Mapbox and Google Maps for routing and Paystack for cashless payment, from July 2018 to the first release in early 2019. 1,000+ drivers took 1.5 million ride requests, daily requests grew 2.5x in the first six months, and Gokada raised a $5.3M Series A.
Quick Answers to Common Questions
Brocoders developed Gokada — a high-load, cross-platform ride-sharing application operating in Lagos, Nigeria. The platform covered rider and driver mobile apps, a dispatch engine, real-time GPS tracking, and an operations dashboard.
Real-time location data from driver apps is ingested via WebSocket connections and stored in a geospatial index for proximity queries. Dispatch logic runs matching algorithms to assign the nearest available driver, accounting for traffic and driver load balancing.
Payment gateways (including mobile money APIs for markets with low card penetration), mapping and routing APIs (Google Maps, Mapbox, HERE), push notification services for real-time driver and rider updates, and fraud detection APIs for payment verification.
Yes. A focused ride-sharing MVP — rider app, driver app, basic dispatch, payment, and admin dashboard — can be scoped and delivered in four to six months. Brocoders has the platform architecture experience to avoid common scalability mistakes at the MVP stage.
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