Sotheby’s
Beyond traditional bidding
Web
Front-end
Back-end
Systems architecture
UX design
Sotheby's Sealed is a secure auction platform that allows buyers from all over the world to bid on high-end cars, rare collectibles, and fine art.
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An ambitious project
The world's premier auction house for art and luxury collectibles, Sotheby's has fully embraced digital platforms to remain competitive.
They approached us with a plan to take the time-honoured tradition of sealed-bid auctions to a global, online audience. Not only that, but the items up for sale would be some of the world's most valuable cars and other high-end luxury collectibles.
We were to build the auction platform from scratch. It had to be easy to use and convey the excitement of an in-person sealed-bid auction, and of course it had to be one hundred percent secure.
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A high-stakes mission
Our task was to develop a world-class web auction experience that reflected the Sotheby's brand, with highest priority given to ensuring top-tier security for international buyers.
To meet the demands of the project, our team employed a cutting-edge tech stack, including Styled Components, TypeScript, Next.js, Nest, GraphQL, Urql, and TypeORM. With these innovative technologies, we developed a seamless, responsive, and highly functional platform that exceeds current industry standards.
- Strongly typed PL
- Typescript
- Monorepo solution
- Nx
- React website framework
- Next.js
- CSS-in-JS
- Styled components
- A blazing-fast GraphQL client
- Urql
- ORM for TypeScript
- TypeORM
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