Aven
A ride-hailing web app: order a driver, then follow the whole trip live on the map.
- Year
- 2026
- Role
- Solo project: design, frontend, backend and database
- Platforms
- Web
- Mobile (planned)
Overview
Aven is a ride-hailing app in the spirit of Uber. A customer orders a driver, the first driver to accept gets the ride, and both follow it live on a shared page.
Order a ride in a few taps
Type a few letters, pick the place, and the route appears on the map right away with the distance.
- Search any place in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Route drawn on the map before you order
- Driver arrives in real time
A request lands, one driver takes it
Drivers work from their own area. When a customer is nearby, a modal pops up and the first accept wins.
- Own workspace at /account/driver
- Request modal for nearby customers
- Taken to the ride page together with the customer
How a ride works
Pick destination
Search and see the route
Drivers notified
Nearby drivers get the request
First accept wins
Only one driver gets the ride
Shared page
Both land on the ride page
Live trip
Customer follows in real time
Who uses it
Customer
- Search any place in Bosnia and Herzegovina by typing a few letters
- See the route drawn on the map
- Order a driver
- Watch the driver arrive in real time
- Follow the trip and the distance covered
Driver
- Works from their own area at /account/driver
- Gets a request modal when a customer is in their area
- The first to accept gets the ride
- Is taken to the ride page together with the customer
A project with real moving parts: two people watching the same ride, a location that keeps changing, and one decision that must happen exactly once.
Key features
Local place search
Type "tra" and get Travnik. Built for places in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Instant routes
Route and distance are drawn on the map before the customer orders.
First accept wins
No double bookings, even when two drivers tap at the same moment.
Live tracking
Customer and driver see the same ride, stage by stage.
How I built it
Next.js + TypeScript
One codebase for the interface and the backend.
Prisma + PostgreSQL
Users, drivers and rides modelled with clear relations.
Better Auth
Accounts and roles without reinventing login.
MapLibre
Open-source live map instead of a paid service.
OSRM
Routes and distances, also open source.
Location API
Powers the search box for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Screens
Challenges
Two drivers can press accept at almost the same moment.zz
Checking that the ride is still free and assigning it happen as one step in the database, so only the first accept wins.
The customer's and the driver's ride page must stay in sync while the driver moves.
Both pages read the same ride state, so what each person sees always matches the stage the ride is in.
What I learned
State is everything
Live features are mostly about state: who owns the ride and which stage it is in.
Model it cleanly
A clean database model makes everything else simpler.
Open source is enough
MapLibre and OSRM can replace a single paid map service.