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Wazzup · Case Study

Turning the city into a living stream of events.

A mobile application bringing geolocated discovery, ticketing, stories and organizer tools into one experience.

  • 300+ interfaces
  • 9 backend modules
  • 34 data entities
Wazzup map showing nearby events
Wazzup event overview with date, venue and ticket call to action
Wazzup e-ticket with access-control QR code

Challenge

Combining social inspiration with transactional rigor

Solution

Frame the ecosystem · Unify the experience · Integrate and ship

Delivered

A complete operational application, with a production backend and tested critical journeys: discovery, ticket purchase, e-ticket delivery, social loop and organizer management.

Context

Fragmented local discovery

Local events live scattered across social networks, third-party ticketing tools and private messaging. Users lose the thread, and organizers lose control of their sales and their audience.

Challenge

Combining social inspiration with transactional rigor

The product had to stay light and social on discovery, while supporting a payment journey, access control and event management that are genuinely reliable.

Frame the ecosystem

Roles, entities, permissions and event lifecycles modelled before the first interface.

Unify the experience

A single design system covering discovery, transaction, social and organizer tools.

Integrate and ship

Payments, mapping, media, notifications and subscriptions plugged into one backend.

Product journeys

01

Discovering what is happening nearby

The map, advanced filters and keyword search share one intention: reducing the effort between wanting to go out and finding the relevant event.

Wazzup community screen showing nearby events
Wazzup map showing nearby events
Wazzup advanced filters: date, category, distance and price
Wazzup keyword search results

02

Understanding an event at a glance

The condensed card carries the decision, the full page carries the depth: line-up, venue, conditions and ticket call to action.

Wazzup event overview with date, venue and ticket call to action
Condensed view
Full Wazzup event detail page, scrolled from top to bottom
Full page

03

Buying and receiving the ticket

Ticket selection, confirmation, notification and QR-code e-ticket: a complete transactional journey, verifiable at the door.

Wazzup ticket selection and quantity choice
Wazzup notification list confirming the ticket was received
Wazzup e-ticket with access-control QR code

04

A social layer that serves the product

Following profiles, seeing who attends and extending the experience after the event: the social layer feeds discovery instead of replacing it.

Wazzup social list of people to follow
Wazzup social profile and connection action
Wazzup profile and settings, with role-related options

05

Running the event side

Event creation, ticketing, sales tracking and dashboards: organizers get management tooling inside the same application.

Creating an event in the Wazzup organizer space
Wazzup ticketing: sales overview for an event
Wazzup performance dashboard for organizers
Event-specific Wazzup dashboard: participants and revenue

Architecture

The system that makes the experience possible.

Mobile application

API & business logic

Data & media

Third-party services

  • React Native / Expo
  • NestJS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Mapbox
  • Stripe
  • RevenueCat
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Firebase

Nine backend modules and thirty-four data entities support discovery, ticketing, social features and organizer management.

Verified outcome

A complete operational application, with a production backend and tested critical journeys: discovery, ticket purchase, e-ticket delivery, social loop and organizer management.

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