PWA & LIVE VENUE COMMUNITY PLATFORM
A mobile-first progressive web app that turns physical venues into live digital rooms — guests scan a QR code, join without downloading an app, and move from presence to posts, events, and RSVPs.
About the Project
Brodly turns bars, coworking spaces, and social venues into shared digital communities. Guests scan a venue QR code in the mobile browser — no app-store download and no full signup — then see who is there, post text or photos, discover activities, and RSVP. Venue teams get branding, zones, announcements, polls, official events, and moderation aimed at the people actually connected to their space. We delivered the product in two phases: MVP for QR entry, live rooms, posts, and admin foundations, then MVP 1.5 for discovery, events, RSVP, announcements, and polls.
The product experience
A live community layer that moves guests from presence in a physical space to posts, events, RSVP, and real-world participation — without an app download.
See the product deep dive
From presence to participation
Project Deep Dive
Unpacking the architecture, innovations, and real-world results
People in the same space often still miss who is around or what is forming nearby. Each Brodly venue gets a chronological feed powered by Supabase Realtime. Guests post text and photos, signal what they are open to, and use interaction prompts to break the ice — so presence turns into conversation without leaving the room.
The home experience answers what a guest is doing today, what is happening around them, and where they can go next. Discovery surfaces Live Now, Starting Soon, Trending, Today, This Week, My Events, and venue search, so activity is findable across the network — not only inside one room.
Venue teams publish Official Venue Events for endorsed programming. Guests create Community Events for informal meetups that are clearly not venue-endorsed. RSVP supports Going and Interested states with visible counts, turning discovery into a concrete plan to show up.
Venues publish announcements with pin, expiry, and removal controls, and run live polls with real-time results. Administration spans Super Admin for platform-wide venues and moderation, Venue Admin for branding, logo, background, and zones, and Staff Operator for scoped monitoring. AI-assisted moderation helps catch spam and inappropriate text or images before they widen in the feed.
Brodly is a React and Next.js mobile-first PWA on Vercel, with Supabase for the database, Realtime live feed, and Storage for photos and venue assets — plus role-based access, file validation, compression, and rate limiting. The same product fits bars and restaurants, coworking, sports and recreation, fitness, and social venues. Code Huddle delivered the full MVP and MVP 1.5 scope: QR guest entry, realtime rooms, the activity layer, role-based admin, moderation, and PWA delivery.
Key Outcomes
Measurable results that demonstrate the impact of thoughtful design
MVP + 1.5
QR live rooms delivered first, then events, RSVP, discovery, announcements, and polls
No download
guests join on mobile browser through a venue QR code without an App Store install
Realtime
live venue feeds and poll results powered by Supabase Realtime
3 admin roles
Super Admin, Venue Admin, and Staff Operator with scoped access and moderation
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