AR Car Rentals — Full-Stack Rental Platform Case Study · Matt Alexius

AR Car Rentals is a production full-stack rental platform serving Cebu — real-time vehicle availability, automated booking, lead capture, and SEO from day one.

AR Car Rentals is a full-stack car rental web platform serving customers in Cebu. It features real-time vehicle availability, an automated booking system, lead generation tools to capture potential customers, automated email follow-ups to nurture inquiries, and is fully SEO optimized to drive organic traffic — all wrapped in a clean, mobile-responsive interface built for modern users.

The problem

The client was running their entire rental operation through Facebook DMs and a spreadsheet. Inquiries got lost, double-bookings happened weekly, and the brand had no online presence search engines could find. They needed a real product without the budget of a real product.

The approach

Built on React + Vite for a fast, mobile-first frontend, with Supabase as the realtime backend so availability updates instantly across users. Lead capture forms feed directly into automated email sequences, and the entire site is server-rendered metadata + structured data for SEO from day one.

What I learned

Shipping for a real client teaches you that "it works on my machine" is not a deliverable. Edge cases I’d ignored in personal projects — timezones, partial network failures, validation on every input — became unavoidable. Also: a fast site converts better than a pretty one.