Icon
Used for compact branding, quick recognition, and small-surface contexts.
Case Study
RigMateAU
RigMateAU is an Australia-focused PC builder and price-comparison platform with compatibility checks, trust-aware marketplace scoring, and premium shareable build pages.
From field toolkit to builder platform
Compatibility-first, trust-aware, and explicit about its data sourcing boundaries
RigMateAU started as a rig-planning toolkit and has since been rebuilt into a dedicated PC builder and price-comparison platform for the Australian market. The product scope is now explicit: help buyers assemble compatible builds, understand real landed cost and seller trust, and walk away with a build page worth sharing — without resorting to scraping the communities that already do pricing well.
Core Objectives
- Catch incompatible parts before checkout: socket, RAM type, form factor, clearances, PSU fit, and wattage.
- Surface marketplace trust signals — landed cost, seller trust, warranty risk, import caution — instead of raw price sorting.
- Produce a premium, shareable build page with print-to-PDF support.
Source Policy
- OzBargain and Whirlpool are explicitly excluded from provider logic, scraping, and pricing pipelines.
- Provider interfaces are staged for official retailer feeds, the eBay API, and approved AliExpress partner data — live scraping is intentionally not implemented yet.
- Product imagery is sourced locally or from approved manufacturer media, never scraped from search engines.
Two Deployment Modes
The same codebase ships two ways: a dynamic Cloudflare Workers deployment via OpenNext, and a static GitHub Pages fallback for environments without a server runtime.
Cloudflare Mode
- API routes and dynamic build persistence available.
- Architecture kept ready for D1, R2, KV, and the OpenNext runtime.
- Provider interfaces preserved for future official retailer integrations.
Static (GitHub Pages) Mode
- Next.js static export with client-side seed/catalog data.
- Compatibility checks and trust scoring run entirely client-side against mock providers.
- Share links still work with no server-only runtime features in play.
Visual System
The RigMateAU identity uses a compact icon and a strong horizontal header mark to communicate utility and confidence. Both assets are used in the live experience for recognizability across screens.
Header Logo
Used in primary banners and top-level branding to anchor the product identity.