Event SaaS202601 / 06
Snapvyn
A QR-based event photo sharing platform that lets guests upload photos and videos into one live gallery without installing an app.
Role
Founder & sole engineer — product, frontend, backend, infrastructure
Stack
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Object storage
- Edge image pipeline
- Stripe
The problem
Wedding and event guests will not install an app for a single evening. Every existing option forced a download, an account, or both — so the photos that mattered most stayed scattered across a hundred camera rolls and never reached the host.
Approach
- 01Reduced onboarding to a single scan: the QR resolves straight into a browser-native uploader with no account, no install and no gate in front of the camera.
- 02Built the gallery as a live surface — uploads appear for every guest in real time, so the event has a shared visual feed while it is still happening.
- 03Moved transcoding and thumbnail generation to an async pipeline so a guest on venue Wi-Fi with a 4K video never waits on a spinner.
- 04Designed multi-tenant event isolation up front — each event is its own bounded space with its own retention window and access rules.
Outcome
- Guest onboarding reduced to one scan and zero installs.
- Uploads land in a single host-owned gallery instead of scattered camera rolls.
Next project
Fotovyn