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Teutepeuters — Carnival association + CMS
Role
Web designer, full-stack developer & CMS author
Tech stack
Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · PostgreSQL
Year
2024
Context
The association managed everything manually: registrations by email, sponsors through verbal agreements. Alongside the public website I built an admin dashboard where board members can manage everything independently. Sponsors can now also be added through the site and compensated — a direct new revenue stream for the association.
Public website and a full CMS for a carnival association. Board members manage via the dashboard: members, king, albums, registrations and sponsors — without a single line of code. The result: dozens fewer emails per week and a new sponsorship stream the association manages themselves.
Building a CMS for non-technical users teaches you more about UX than almost any design project. The feature I implemented fastest — sponsor management — turned out to be the most valuable. That taught me to ask early and concretely what the client actually needs, not what they say they want.