Visavis Dating App
**The Challenge** Visionary entrepreneur Michalis Panayiotou engaged Nebula Labs to develop the Visavis App and Marketplace, an iOS mobile application catering to the dating industry. This app enables users to "experience genuine connection" by selecting a potential date and reserving a participating venue to meet. Users make a deposit for each date using Credit Card, Debit Card, or Apple Pay, facilitated by the Stripe Payment Gateway.
**Our Solution** The Visavis platform operates on a two-sided marketplace model, where a cloud-based system allows participating venues—primarily within the hospitality sector—to register, connect their bank accounts through Stripe Connect, and manage their availability and pricing using a venue-focused dashboard. When a date is booked at a participating venue, the venue immediately receives the user's deposit. Venues can self-manage their capacity and availability through the dedicated dashboard, which is designed for high operational scalability. The marketplace fee is dynamically determined based on the venue type (for instance, different rates may apply for restaurants compared to bars and coffee shops), and this fee is charged instantly to Visavis Ventures through the integration with Stripe Connect. The native mobile app, launched on iOS and developed using Swift, includes a customized backend API that merges the marketplace dashboard for hospitality venues with Stripe Connect Payment Gateway integration, developed in Python using the Django framework, supported by a highly scalable PostgreSQL database, and deployed to the cloud via Amazon Web Services for global scalability and transaction efficiency.