Ilere: Building a Transparent Rental Marketplace on Expo and Supabase

Ilere is a mobile housing marketplace aimed at Nigerian cities such as Ibadan, Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt. The core idea is visible in the code: tenants browse listings with explicit fee breakdowns, open a listing to competitive bids from agents, choose the best offer, and continue the conversation in-app. The real problem is not just discovery. It is making the opaque part of the rental market, especially agent pricing and coordination, visible enough to compare. The current codebase also goes beyond that loop. Tenants can save homes, contact landlord listings directly, receive in-app and push notifications, and report or block abusive users. Agents and landlords can post listings. The result is a fairly opinionated mobile product with real workflow boundaries baked into both the frontend and the database. The architecture is straightforward in a good way. src/app/_layout.tsx is the actual shell of the app: it loads fonts, holds a shared QueryClient , hydrates auth state through