Eventum

Inspiration

We all love university parties - however, they get crowded, have long queues, and the awareness team can always need support. We want to actually deploy and maintain a ticket management, food/drink ordering, and safety supporting app.

What it does

With Eventum, users can book the tickets for university parties conveniently from their home, evade long queues for drinks and food, and notify the Security Staff with a press of a button.

How we built it

We want a multiplatform, responsive, and network-resilient application. That's why we used Expo React Native, WorksOS Authentication, Stripe Payments, tRPC Backend, and Postgres. It's easy to deploy, can be used by Apple, Android, and Web Users, and can scale to 100k+ MAU for a low price.

Challenges we ran into

Hackathons are stressful and time-sensitive, so we used Agentic AI to increase our development speed. This helped us significantly, but also introduced a minor error that took longer than expected to resolve.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We built a functional and useful MVP, successfully implemented Stripe, and it looks really good!

What we learned

Sleep is really important - go home early to get a good night's sleep and avoid all-nighters. Teamwork, communication, limiting your scope, and having fun are the most important parts.

What's next for Eventum

We already got positive feedback from Fachschaft officials, and if they are interested, we want to develop, host, and publish the app for upcoming university events.

Coming to a TUM party near you™

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