Loom & Luxe: rent the dress, skip the full retail bill
Rentals, deposits, and return logistics
Loom & Luxe is a designer dress rental marketplace. Shoppers book rental windows with Stripe. Owners and brands track inventory and earnings. Return labels and courier pickup run when the window closes.
Project intent
Make designer dresses reachable for short events: browse, book a window, pay a fraction of retail, and get pickup handled when the rental ends.
Challenge
A one-night dress should not cost a full retail hit. Early rental flows broke on deposits, delivery addresses, and getting garments back on time. Ops filled the gaps by hand, which does not scale.
Solution
We built a Next.js and React storefront with a Ruby on Rails API on Elastic Beanstalk. RDS PostgreSQL holds catalog and rental state. S3 stores product imagery. Stripe handles rentals, authorizations, and deposits. Google Maps covers address autocomplete and delivery tracking. Datadog and Sentry watch the stack. The storefront ships on Vercel.
Results
- Editorial catalog and detail pages built for browsing, not bulk grids
- Checkout with Stripe for rentals, holds, and security deposits
- Return labels and courier dispatch after each rental window
- Lender dashboard for inventory, active rentals, and earnings
Product screens
