Common
The central, community-owned platform for Vienna’s queer culture
Project overview
A scalable, community-first event platform for Vienna and beyond
To counter the fragmentation of Vienna’s LGBTQIA+ scene, I architected a centralized, resilient platform to aggregate events from across the city. Built with Next.js and Supabase, it replaces algorithmic gatekeepers with a transparent, community-driven infrastructure. The tech stack prioritizes independence: a PostGIS spatial engine for location-based discovery, and a custom CSRF protection system to ensure safety without relying on third-party black boxes.
Availability was critical. I engineered the platform as a Progressive Web App (PWA) with robust offline caching, ensuring access even in poor network conditions. To support organizers, I implemented complex recurring event logic that handles irregular schedules, something generic platforms fail to do. By using Resend for transactional communication and Vercel Edge caching, we achieved a high-performance, low-cost solution that scales internationally while remaining 100% community-owned and giving organizers the possibility to directly invite their followers to their next event.
Year
2023
What we achieved
Governance, infrastructure, and "tech for good"
Beyond the code, I served on the core strategic team, defining the governance model that keeps the platform independent from corporate influence. I managed the entire digital footprint, from securing DNS and email infrastructure to implementing strictly typed TypeScript workflows. My role was to ensure that our technical architecture mirrored our political values: open, safe, and sustainable.
This project proves that volunteer-driven initiatives don't have to compromise on professional standards. I brought senior engineering rigor, automated CI/CD pipelines, strict linting, and horizontal+vertical type safety, to a grassroots project. By building a stable, scalable foundation, I empowered the community to take ownership of their own data and traffic, creating a permanent digital home for queer culture in Vienna. Superb OpSec, with keys on a micro SD meant for a raspberry, within an unmounted VeraCrypt partition and multi-sig offline decryption keys, properly securing hosting and github accounts, ensures that only packages to be patched remain, as Claude Sonnet 4.6 stuns security researchers with numerous zero-day-vulnerabilities (nothing is truly ever safe).