Foundations

The skeleton, the database, and a privacy model — all built before anything a guest would ever see.

Parties are intimate. If people don't trust that their candid shots stay in the circle, the whole thing falls apart.

The goalLay a solid base before building anything guests would see.

• Stood up the app skeleton — a fast, modern web app with nothing to install. Guests just scan and go.
• Made an early, important call: a hybrid look — clean, quiet interfaces for the ordinary screens, and a lovingly hand-built, tactile disposable-camera interface for the part that matters. All the colors live in one "control panel" so the whole app can be re-themed later from a single place.
• Built the foundation of the database — events, cameras, and photos — with privacy baked in from the start: guests' photos live in a private vault, and the rules make sure nobody can peek at another camera's shots or another event's gallery.
• Wrote the roadmap and set a quality bar (performance + experience standards to hold every feature to).