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Penn Plates

Campus dining social app built through Penn SPARK.

A real product-focused build with practical constraints, team collaboration, and user-oriented iteration. The goal was connecting students around dining in a way that felt lightweight and usable.

Date
2026
Signal
Product
Build stage
Demo-ready build completed
Stack
Next.js, Supabase
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Demo

Project notes

Highlights

What I built

  • Auth and profile experience grounded in Supabase RLS.
  • Product iteration driven by student use cases.

Architecture

How the system works

  • Next.js client with Supabase-backed auth and data access.
  • Feature set optimized for practical student interaction loops.

Challenges

What made it hard

  • Balancing feature ambition with limited project timeline.
  • Keeping UX simple while still supporting social coordination.

Lessons

What I learned

  • Shipping on time is often a bigger challenge than coding features.
  • Product clarity usually beats feature density.

Stack / materials

Next.jsSupabaseReact
  • Good reminder that systems thinking applies to product scope too.

Media timeline

Build photos, clips, and process visuals. The goal is to show how the project evolved, not just the final screenshot.

Build snapshot
Penn Plates media 1