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CarnivalXperience

A companion platform for the Calabar Carnival: events, stays, maps, and a safety layer for the crowd.

Why it exists

Everyone keeps pointing tech at fintech. I pointed this one at my own city, at something people actually live through every year.

How it works

01120+ carnival events with filtering and live countdowns
0240+ hotel listings with booking and Paystack payments
03Leaflet + OpenStreetMap venue and vendor mapping, no API key required
04Safety layer: emergency contacts, location sharing, family tracking, incident reporting
05AI concierge for personalised recommendations; Supabase auth and Postgres

What was hard

Building for a festival means building for peak load, bad network and people who will never read your instructions. All three at once.