Case studies · Phone recycling · 10+ year partnership
Compare and Recycle
A leading UK phone-recycling comparison marketplace, and a platform we've built and grown alongside the team for over a decade.
Compare and RecycleAt a glance
Comparison platform & offers engine
The problem
Compare and Recycle compares live trade-in prices across the market, with thousands of new prices arriving every 10 minutes. They needed those offers gathered, kept accurate and served to a large audience fast, without the back-end becoming the bottleneck as traffic grew.
Our approach
- A Postgres-backed offers engine that normalises and ranks merchant pricing, with thousands of new prices ingested every 10 minutes.
- A FastAPI GraphQL backend and a Next.js storefront, with a custom CMS for the editorial team.
- High-performance Rust services handling 600,000+ API requests a day, with a real-time order updates pipeline.
- More than five billion rows of pricing history in BigQuery, with over 1TB of pricing data analysed.
- Merchant tooling so recyclers can manage their business and automate the trade-in process.
- Full observability across the customer journey, plus around-the-clock monitoring and on-call cover.
In production
A platform we've maintained and grown with the team for over a decade. It has been adapted for international markets, with live deployments in the US and Europe, and it's still actively developed today.
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