BAY 08 / Gear and crew rental
Thirdspace: gear and crew rental marketplace in Ghana
Thirdspace is a cinema gear and crew rental marketplace in Accra, live at thirdspace.rentals. Built by PED on Laravel, Inertia and React.
- Client
- Thirdspace
- Type
- Web apps and portals, Websites
- Sector
- Gear and crew rental
- Role
- Custom application and website
- Stack
- Laravel, Inertia, React
01 / THE JOB
Who it was for.
Thirdspace is a gear and crew rental marketplace in Ghana. The live site is one word, thirdspace.rentals. You rent cinema cameras, lenses, lighting, and grip, or you book a crew for weddings, photography, podcasts, and live production.
Gear is a catalogue: search, filters, rental dates, and what is free to take. Crew and coverage sit under event services, where a job is configured instead of picked off a shelf, and enquiries go straight to the desk.
02 / THE CHALLENGE
What the job asked for.
Two different jobs share one site. Renting kit is a catalogue job: search, filters, rental dates, and what is free to take. Booking a crew for a wedding, a podcast, photography, or live production is a different job, because a job is configured instead of picked off a shelf.
The site had to hold both, and send enquiries straight to the desk.
03 / WHAT PED BUILT
Built in order.
Each part, with the screen that shows it. Click any picture to enlarge.
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WEB / HOMEPAGE
One front door, two halves
The homepage splits into 01 Rental Gear and 02 Production Crew, so a visitor chooses which kind of job they are here for before anything else.
The homepage, with Gear and Crew panels Homepage split: Rental Gear and Production Crew 02 of 4
WEB / GEAR
Gear is a catalogue
The gear side is a catalogue of cinema cameras, lenses, lighting, and grip. A listing, here a Canon EOS R5 C, carries its specifications, dates, and availability.
The gear catalogue and a rental page A rental listing with dates and availability 03 of 4
WEB / CREW
Crew is configured, not shelved
Crew and coverage sit under event services, where a job is configured, and enquiries go straight to the desk. The Talk to the Desk form is the way in.
Talk to the Desk, landing, catalogue 04 of 4
MOBILE / PHONE VIEWS
In the hand
On a phone the site holds the same split: the gear catalogue, the Gear and Crew homepage, and a camera detail page.
Catalogue, split homepage, camera detail
04 / EVERY SCREEN
The full set.
All 6 pictures we have for this job, uncropped. Open one, then use the arrow keys.
How to read the picturesThe boards show the homepage, the gear catalogue, a camera detail page, and the mobile views across catalogue and contact. Day rates in those pictures belong to the listings. They are not a PED result.
05 / STACK, AS BUILT
What it runs on.
- Laravel
- Inertia
- React
What we did
06 / OUTCOME
What exists now.
Thirdspace is live at thirdspace.rentals. Cinema cameras, lenses, lighting, and grip are rented from a catalogue, and production crews are booked through event services.
Listings on the site are placed in Tema, Greater Accra.
07 / RELATED SERVICES
Stations this job runs through.
The service pages that describe the kind of work above.
