What it demonstrates
Rental Direct is a vacation-rental marketplace example designed around a direct connection between travelers and property owners. The experience demonstrates how discovery, property information, and owner engagement can be brought together in a polished responsive application.
The experience model
The example focuses on several core marketplace needs:
- Give travelers a clear way to discover and evaluate available properties.
- Present property information in a consistent, approachable format.
- Support a direct relationship between the traveler and owner.
- Create an experience that remains usable across desktop and mobile devices.
The application is intended to show how product structure and technical implementation work together around a specific customer journey.
Technical implementation
The user experience is built with Angular and TypeScript. An ASP.NET Web API provides the service layer, with Azure SQL supporting persistence and Azure App Service providing cloud application hosting. Vercel supports the public frontend deployment.
This separation between the client experience, API, and data layer illustrates a conventional enterprise web architecture while keeping the public demonstration easy to access.
AI-assisted development
Codex was the coding assistant used for this build. The example demonstrates an AI-assisted workflow applied across a multi-tier application that spans frontend development, API design, data persistence, deployment, and iterative refinement.
How to view the example
Rental Direct is presented as an independent coding example rather than an employer production system. The live application demonstrates the current traveler-facing experience and the technologies described here.