Laying the Foundation for a Scalable Venue Directory: Inside the Initial Commit of Venue Scout
How I structured Venue Scout’s initial commit for scalability, from modular city directories to flexible amenity tagging in Next.js.
How I structured Venue Scout’s initial commit for scalability, from modular city directories to flexible amenity tagging in Next.js.
We automated image sitemaps and SEO page generation in our Laravel 12 app to scale search visibility ahead of peak season.
We replaced Umami with GA4 and custom lead tracking to gain better insights, performance, and control in our SaaS dashboard.
We unified AustinsElite's venue UIs and features with a single config file, making theming and iteration faster and more consistent.
Syncing lead status between a 15-year-old PHP app and a new Next.js frontend taught us hard lessons in event-driven design and data consistency.
We built a hybrid static sitemap generator using Laravel Artisan to serve Next.js content, improving crawl efficiency and reducing server load.
Laravel's PDO SQLite layer was silently breaking our geospatial queries—here's how inline parameter binding saved venue search in AustinsElite.
How I eliminated cold start delays in AustinsElite with a custom cache warming system using background jobs and dedicated controllers.
We rebuilt our venue-event matching engine using AI-driven address normalization in Motia to fix fragmented location data at scale.
We replaced brittle exact-match venue logic with a smart scoring engine powered by libpostal and dynamic weights—here’s how.
How we automated legacy event-to-venue matching in Next.js using Laravel-powered console commands and robust service layers.
How we evolved AustinsElite’s venue data pipeline to handle scale with batch processing, versioning, and standardized commands.