Around four months ago, I noticed my school’s robotics organization had a lot of small problems adding up

• Our calendar was a one-page Google Doc
• Communication was scattered
• Field elements kept getting lost
• New members constantly needed help
• People across our 6 teams often had no idea what they were supposed to be doing

So a friend and I started building a centralized management portal. A few technical decisions I made

• Turborepo for a monorepo, so I didn’t have to duplicate backend logic across multiple repos
• Supabase + Prisma for auth and database accessZuplo for API rate limiting
• RoboEvents API for competition data
• GitHub + Fusion 360 webhooks for Discord notifications
• Render + UptimeRobot to keep hosting cheap and reduce cold starts

It was a long and difficult road to get here, as I had to learn so many new tools and resolve so many different problems. But now the portal has officially shipped to our robotics organization, with 200+ members across 6 teams!!

Pretty crazy considering it started because our Google Doc calendar sucked.