JoinUp

Inspiration

We wanted to make community involvement easy and accessible with a modern feel. Drawing inspiration from websites such as luma, Instagram's feed carousel, and Tinder's swiping animation.

What it does

JoinUp is an event management platform designed for non-profits and community organizations. It allows participants to quickly check into events using a card swipe, tracks attendance, and connects them with their local communities. Users can explore upcoming events while event organizers can track attendance and foster greater engagement.

How we built it

For the front-end we utilized Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn's UI library. The back-end was done with Supabase for data management and Prisma helped streamline our database interactions.

Challenges we ran into

We encountered a few key challenges:

Creating a responsive swiping animation that mimicked a thumb swipe took time to implement.
Ensuring connection between the front-end and the Supabase back-end.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Managed to bring a real-time event-tracking feature, which could significantly improved event management for non-profits. We feel strongly about supporting our local communities and non-profit organizations.

What we learned

Through the development of JoinUp, learned about the importance of responsive UI design and the value of real-time databases for creating a good user experience.

What's next for JoinUp

Introduce features for recurring events and enhanced participant feedback. Improve data visualization tools for event organizers to track long-term community engagement.