CampGenie – Summer Camp Marketplace Rescue

CampGenie is a founder-led marketplace for discovering and booking summer camps in the US. I was brought in after an agency-built product looked polished but was too unstable for the founder to confidently show to families and camps — with parents already searching and camps needing booking readiness, the launch window was seasonal and unforgiving.

I started with a paid discovery phase to assess the codebase and clarify the real launch risks, then converted a chaotic agency handoff into fixed-scope delivery phases, working directly with the founder as sole technical owner.

Across the stabilization and product phases I:

• Stabilized the critical family and camp flows — onboarding, search, booking, Stripe payments, security, analytics, and admin operations
• Introduced Playwright E2E coverage, local Supabase workflows, RLS hardening, health checks, and analytics instrumentation to build release confidence under the seasonal deadline
• Built operational tooling for a non-technical founder: admin list/detail pages, booking and transaction drill-downs, direct program editing, Slack ops alerts, and centralized transactional email
• Extended the product model to support direct/referral partnerships, custom-date mini camps, holiday-shortened schedules, per-session capacity enforcement, and richer family search

The product moved from rescue mode into roadmap mode: with the core experience trustworthy, the founder could focus on growth, merchandising, and partnerships. I worked AI-assisted throughout, with tests and CI as the guardrails that kept delivery fast without sacrificing confidence.

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Supabase, Postgres, Stripe, Playwright, GitHub Actions, PostHog