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completedCollaborative project to build a waitlist landing page for Colombia coffee region tours, featuring e-bikes, sustainable tourism, and coffee farm experiences.
Timeframe
Q4 2025
Status
completed
Categories
travelcolombiatourswaitlistlanding-pagee-bikessustainable-tourismcoffee-regioncollaborationform-validationci-cd
About This Project
Collaborative project to build a waitlist landing page for Colombia coffee region tours, featuring e-bikes, sustainable tourism, and coffee farm experiences.
Built a multi-step form with comprehensive validation (client-side and server-side) for capturing tour preferences including duration, interests, fitness level, and travel timeline.
Implemented Supabase database with Row-Level Security policies, automated CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, and comprehensive testing with Jest and Playwright.
Created thank-you page with social sharing functionality and integrated Vercel Analytics for tracking.
Tech Stack
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSSupabasePostgreSQLJestPlaywrightVercel Analytics
Why I Built This
Helped a friend validate market interest for beginner-friendly hike & bike tours in Colombia's Coffee Region (Pereira) before building the full product
Wanted to gain experience working collaboratively with co-founders on both business planning and technical development
Opportunity to work with a team where co-founder had design and frontend expertise, requiring integration of Figma designs into development workflow
Built as a smoke test to measure signup quality, preferences alignment, and social share potential
Key Learnings
✓Working with co-founders in a team environment is fundamentally different from solo projects - requires more communication, alignment on priorities, and compromise on technical decisions
✓Helping with business planning and modeling alongside technical development gave valuable perspective on how product decisions impact business viability
✓Collaborating with a co-founder who had strong design and frontend expertise taught me how to integrate Figma designs into development workflow effectively
•Coordinating technical decisions with business stakeholders requires balancing perfect engineering with shipping quickly for market validation
✓Implemented comprehensive CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for automated testing, linting, and deployment - dramatically improved code quality and deployment confidence
✓Supabase Row-Level Security policies provide robust data protection even for public-facing forms without authentication
Business Model
Smoke test for market validation before building full product
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