StayNia

A responsive accommodation marketplace prototype for discovering fixture-based stays across Kenya.

Accommodation marketplace interfaces need property discovery, filtering, pricing information, and detail pages while remaining usable across different devices.

Built a Next.js marketplace prototype with destination search, URL-backed filters, sorting, reusable property data, statically generated detail pages, internal API routes, responsive property cards, SEO metadata, and browser testing.

• Destination search, filtering, sorting, result counts, and clear filters
• URL-backed discovery state
• Reusable property cards backed by canonical fixture data
• Statically generated property-detail pages and image galleries
• Guest capacity, amenities, sample ratings, KES pricing, and related stays
• Internal property collection and detail API routes
• Responsive layouts, custom 404 handling, and demo disclosures

Playwright browser tests cover desktop and mobile user paths, with unit validation included where supported by the project.

The prototype includes page metadata, dynamic robots output, a restricted sitemap, statically generated property routes, and a custom not-found experience.

StayNia currently uses fixture/demo data. Authentication, a production database, reservations, real availability, payment processing, live inventory, host onboarding, and submitted contact forms are intentionally not implemented.

The build reinforced four practices that carry into comparable Afrinex work: keeping UI and API responses aligned through a single shared data source, representing discovery state in the URL so results stay shareable, testing responsive journeys across desktop and mobile, and drawing a clear line between a working prototype and future transactional features.