PRORAB — Mobile App and Landing for Construction Foremen

Context and goal

Uzbekistan's construction market still runs on paper logbooks, lost receipts and scattered chats. A foreman spends half the day on bookkeeping and the other half arguing with the client about "where the money went".

PRORAB was built to kill exactly that pain:

• sites, finances and crew in one place;
• transparent estimates and expenses you can actually show to the client;
• one-tap PDF reports sent straight to messengers.

The target audience is foremen, team leaders, private contractors and site managers who juggle one or several construction sites at the same time.

Tech stack and architecture

The project is built as a multi-component ecosystem: one backend, three clients (iOS, Android, landing) and one admin panel.

• Backend: Laravel (REST API) — a single source of truth for auth, sites, finances, crew and the Marketplace module.
• Admin panel: Filament — content, users, subscriptions and listing moderation.
• Landing: Alpine.js + Tailwind CSS, uz / ru / oz locales with separate SEO per language.
• Mobile clients: native iOS and Android apps (iOS 17.6+ required).
• Extras: push notifications, PDF report generation, photo-report uploads, in-app purchases (monthly subscription).

Everything runs on a single API, so data entered on a phone or in the admin panel is instantly available everywhere.

Core module: site management

The heart of the app is running several construction sites in parallel. Every site gets its own color so you never lose track of it in lists and filters.

Inside a single site the foreman gets:

• Finance control — income from the client and expenses on materials, with a receipt or photo attached to any entry.
• Estimates and purchases — planned work and materials, budget tracking.
• Crew — workers list, completed tasks, advance payments and salary calculation.
• Photo reports — a gallery of photos per site.
• PDF report — a client-ready document generated in one tap and sent to Telegram / WhatsApp.

Dedicated screens (Workers / Expenses / Photo reports) also aggregate data across all sites at once, with a per-site filter and color markers.

The "Marketplace" module — the project's signature feature

The Marketplace is a standalone classifieds board inside the app, purpose-built for the construction niche. Unlike general listing sites, it's already in the hands of working foremen.

• Categories: Equipment / Workers / Teams.
• Filters: Offering / Looking for — the author's intent is visible at a glance.
• Geo-search: by regions and districts of Uzbekistan.
• Call from the listing: the user dials with a single tap, without chats or middlemen.
• Manage your own listings: create, edit, archive, photos, price.

This turns PRORAB from a personal CRM into a regional construction marketplace.

Challenges and how we solved them

The project is far from a standard CRUD — there were several non-trivial problems:

• Three languages, two alphabets. uz (Latin), ru and oz (Cyrillic) serve different audiences. Locale logic is built per string, and the landing page has separate SEO per language.
• Cross-site aggregation. Workers, Expenses and Photo reports screens had to merge data from all sites at once, yet still filter down to a specific site instantly.
• SEO for a local market. The landing is tuned for queries like foreman, estimate, crew, builders marketplace, targeted specifically at the Uzbekistan audience.
• Publishing on both stores. Full compliance with App Store and Google Play: metadata, screenshots, privacy policy, age ratings.
• Native mobile clients were chosen deliberately over cross-platform — to make push, camera and UX feel fully native on each platform.

Results

PRORAB is a live product that is already onboarding real users:

• Landing: prorabapp.uz — three languages, SEO and subscription pages.
• App Store: iOS version — current build 2.1.5 (April 2026).
• Google Play: Android version.
• Active release cycle: since March 2026 — 8+ releases within a single month.
• Monetization: core features are free, advanced ones are unlocked via a monthly subscription (in-app purchases).
• Category: Business, age rating 4+ / 3+.

The outcome is a shipped product tailored to Uzbekistan's construction audience — locally focused, officially published on both stores.

Takeaways and roadmap

PRORAB is no longer just an app — it is a platform tailored for a local market. The core hypothesis held: foremen are ready to drop paper logbooks and pay for digital tools as long as the tool doesn't get in their way.

Where we are heading next:

• Cloud sync across devices — one account on the work phone and the desktop;
• Extending the Marketplace — ratings, verified contractor badges, in-app chats;
• Per-site analytics — dashboards on deadlines, budgets and margins;
• Financial integrations — banks and POS systems, automatic receipt import;
• Web dashboard for foremen and clients — bringing mobile logic onto the desktop.

Development is active, releases keep shipping — the product is becoming something foremen are no longer willing to give up.