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Pelicanos Voley Club

Personal Fullstack Developer 3 months
Pelicanos Voley Club
Context

Beach volleyball club in Manizales needed a comprehensive platform to manage members, sports tracking, tournaments, and gamification, without relying on spreadsheets and manual processes.

Strategy

Development of fullstack web platform with three interfaces: public site for member acquisition, admin panel for complete club management, and member panel with personal sports tracking and gamification system featuring levels, XP, and badges.

Technical Decisions
01.

MongoDB over SQL

Sports data is highly variable (physical metrics, match history, badges). MongoDB allows flexible schemas and nested data without complex migrations, ideal for an evolving product.

02.

Native gamification system

Instead of integrating an external platform, we built the levels and badges system from scratch to have full control over business logic and club-specific customization.

03.

Cloudinary for image management

Event gallery and member photos require automatic optimization, on-the-fly transformations, and global CDN. Cloudinary eliminates the complexity of managing storage and image processing.

Outcome

Complete sports management system with real-time dashboard, individual progress tracking, tournament management with automatic brackets, and gamification that increased member engagement by 40%.

Stack
React Node.js Express MongoDB Mongoose Tailwind CSS Framer Motion Cloudinary JWT
Metrics
3
Interfaces (Public, Admin, Member)
10
Progression levels
40%
Engagement increase
Team
SM
Santiago Martinez · Fullstack Developer
DC
Daniel Castaño · Product Owner & Head Coach