CampFire

Create unique memories & good vibes at work

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Inspiration

After the pandemic, most of the companies are forced to work in remote setup, many companies declared the remote-first approach. The notable consequences were

  • The productivity of people is increased but overall satisfaction was decreased as there were no watercooler discussions, knowing team members at lunches, fun events
  • People are scared to switch to the remote-first company is because of uncertainty with whom they are interacting, what is the company culture.
  • No show of new joiners at joining dates

What it does

CampFire allows you to build human connection in your remote team with engaging & fun activities. we are solving employee retention and onboarding problems. Since the core pillar of any remote-first company is async communication. we want to solve the problem in the same way!

Key Areas Campfire helping remote-first companies

Fun Activities

  • Asynchronous team building activities
    • Earn and redeem participation points
    • Appreciate other team members

Know Your Co-Workers

  • Easily learn about coworkers on other teams
  • Connect with people having common interests beyond work

New Hire

  • Help to take async cultural interviews
  • Make them feel more at home even before joining

How we built it

We are using popular and OSS friendly projects

  • Next.js - Ther React framework for production
  • Prisma - The Next Generation Typescript ORM
  • PlaneScale - The Mysql Serverless database platorm :fire:
  • Postmark - Reliable of delivery of emails
  • Vercel - For automated deployments
  • FileStack - File Uploading made easy
  • Loom - For recording and embedding videos
    • unDraw - Big shoutout for amazing OSS work

Challenges we ran into

  • Though stronghold on React, Expres, Javascript decided to explore the new technologies and build MVP. so the learning curve was steeper
    • Single person behind the product idea and plethora of things to do in a short time
    • NextAuth.js was a bit opinioned and difficult to fit in the requirement, there is not much flexibility ... missing role-based access. but it was good to get started within no time
    • Loom Sdk was was good enough to get things working . only minor hiccups otherwise good DevX

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • The Look and Feel of the website ( Lot of iterations until I felt designs look good to me )

What we learned

  • Building usable product in a short period of time :P

What's next for CampFire

  • Building email/notification reminders
  • Building a rewarding system
  • Integrating subscriptions
  • Improving the user experience and questions
  • Wrap up the above things and onboard initial paying customers!

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