How to Launched a Real-Time Marketplace Dashboard in 10 Days with Hasura and PostgreSQL

An early-stage startup goal was to build a real-time dashboard for a wholesale marketplace, they had a clear ask:

“We need a working MVP in 10 days—something we can demo to investors and onboard early customers.”

Instead of months of custom backend development, we delivered a scalable, secure, production-grade app in under two weeks by combining Hasura, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL—a stack that prioritizes speed, visibility, and maintainability.

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🎯 The Mission: Build Fast, Launch Smart

The product—TradePilot—is a B2B tool where buyers monitor:

• 📦 Inventory availability
• ✅ Order statuses
• 🧾 Seller responsiveness
• 📊 Fulfillment rates and price updates

The founder’s goals:

• Ship a working product before demo day
• Show real-time value to users
• Build on a stack that can scale without rewrites

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💡 Why This Stack Worked

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⚒️ Stack Recap

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🧪 Results That Matter

No custom API boilerplate. No REST endpoints. No reinventing the wheel.

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🔄 Real-Time Dashboard (Without Extra Infrastructure)

Instead of polling or spinning up sockets and Redis layers, Hasura’s GraphQL subscriptions gave us instant UI updates. Orders placed by buyers or fulfilled by sellers appeared live on screen — no polling or extra infrastructure.

subscription {
  orders(where: { status: { _eq: "pending" } }) {
    id
    created_at
    status
  }
}

Live order tracking appeared on screen the second a seller or buyer acted. **No backend code was written** for this.

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## 🔐 Role-Based Security Out of the Box

We enforced permissions like:

- Sellers see only their own orders
- Buyers only view their own transactions
- Admins access platform-wide data

All handled inside Hasura’s permission engine—**no custom auth middleware**.

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## 💬 What This Means for Founders

You don’t need a team of 5 engineers to ship an MVP.

✅ Build with confidence
 ✅ Demo with real data
 ✅ Iterate fast post-launch
 ✅ Onboard users, not excuses



> 🧪 “We launched faster than we imagined—and got two new pilots after the demo.” — Founder, TradePilot

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## 🤝 Ready to Launch?

I help founders turn their vision into a working, scalable product—without the traditional delays or overhead.

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*Made with Hasura, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and two decades of full-stack expertise.*


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