2022-11-30 · 2 min read
A GoBiz merchant tool built and kept running across two Southeast Asian markets.
BizTips is a web application built for GoBiz, Gojek's business platform for merchant partners, and deployed across two markets under separate domains — an Indonesia instance at biztips.gobiz.co.id and a Vietnam-localized variant at vn-biztips.gobiz.com. I worked on it as a fullstack developer, which on a product like this typically means owning both the interface merchants interact with and the services behind it: rendering data reliably, keeping the two locale deployments in sync as features evolved, and making sure the app held up under GoBiz's existing infrastructure and branding constraints.
Working across two market variants of the same product adds a layer most single-market apps don't deal with — content, currency, and copy differences have to be handled without forking the codebase into two separate things to maintain. That shaped a lot of the day-to-day work: keeping shared components genuinely shared, isolating what's locale-specific, and being deliberate about which changes get patched just for Vietnam versus rolled into the main build for both markets.
The project is currently in maintenance, which is its own discipline — prioritizing fixes and small improvements without destabilizing something already live for merchants, and understanding an existing codebase well enough to change it safely rather than rewrite it.
It's a good example of the less glamorous but essential side of frontend work at scale: not building from a blank canvas, but keeping a live, multi-market product healthy over time.