Bunz
The city network: trade items, find jobs, homes and more.
- Role
- Chief Product Officer
- Period
- 2014–2017
- The work
- Product design, product management
The story
Bunz started as a barter community in Toronto and grew into a platform for your city: jobs, homes, help and more. While I led product it grew to more than 500,000 users across 250+ cities.
I learned how to build teams and scale a consumer product, built the original React app, and wore many hats from customer research to marketing.
From the résumé: Led a team of four developers, two QA specialists and another designer. The consumer product grew to more than 500,000 users across over 250 cities.
Bunz 3.0
A grid home feed shows more content based on likes and ISOs (in search of). A map view arrived without changing the feed, and gesture navigation tested well with the Bunz audience. The post view put the item first, not the person, and feed filters with a distance slider moved into view.
A small flow change. A measurable difference.
Posts in the two weeks before and after the Android create-post redesign: about 3% more. The original case study reported it alongside research-led search, city discovery and distance filtering.
A historical outcome I reported at the time. The résumé also records growth to 500,000+ users in 250+ cities, with 23% monthly active users.
From the design files.
As originally published on rishabh.ca. Select an image to open it full size.
