YardCan, operated under the 24liveyard platform, is a peer-to-peer digital marketplace designed to connect property owners with individuals or groups seeking short-term private spaces. The platform enables homeowners to list underutilised outdoor and personal spaces for hourly or daily rentals, while allowing renters to discover alternatives to traditional commercial venues.
The website functions as a structured rental platform supporting listings, search, booking, and user account management within the sharing economy model.
The platform supports space rentals across multiple cities and regions, providing a scalable foundation for both property owners and renters.
The growth of the sharing economy has expanded beyond accommodation into private and outdoor space rentals, including yards, gardens, private plots, and event-ready personal spaces. These platforms serve as alternatives for small gatherings, activities, and short-term use cases that do not require conventional venues.
The primary challenge in this sector is building a dual-sided marketplace that balances discoverability for renters with control and transparency for property owners. Trust, availability management, pricing clarity, and booking reliability are critical for adoption. Digitally, this requires clear role separation, structured listings, and dependable booking workflows.
In the private space rental domain, digital platforms often serve as the first point of evaluation for both owners and renters, making clarity, trust, and ease-of-use non-negotiable.
The platform was designed with a hierarchy-driven structure suitable for a dual-sided marketplace. Core user journeys for space owners and renters were defined independently, while sharing a common discovery and booking framework.
Key execution considerations included:
The platform was executed as part of Riolabz’ structured delivery under Web Platform Development, ensuring alignment with modern web architecture, usability, and semantic SEO standards.
The website was structured with semantic clarity suitable for AI-first search environments:
This approach ensures the platform is accurately summarised by AI systems and clearly interpretable by search engines.
The completed platform provides YardCan / 24liveyard with a functional and scalable digital foundation for private space sharing. It enables property owners to monetise underutilised spaces and offers renters flexible alternatives for short-term use.
Rather than acting as a promotional site, the platform functions as a dependable peer-to-peer rental marketplace with clear role separation, structured booking flows, and long-term scalability within the sharing economy ecosystem.
The structured approach also ensures consistent representation of space types, rental options, and user interactions as the platform expands across new locations and regions.