loveyourcamper - Connect with Vanlifers globally

HI Makers & Hunters 😃 I am happy to present my first application I developed by myself and therefore become an official PH Maker! 😎 I always had a strong passion to travel with a CamperVan and explore the world on the road. A few years ago I bought “OscarTheBus”, a Volkswagen T3 Westfalia Van and created an Instagram Community named loveyourcamper to showcase my journey. My original Idea of loveyourcamper was always to build a CamperVan Community so that like-minded people can connect and most importantly go on CamperVan Adventures with people in the same area. This is exactly the use case I have: Living as an expat in Ireland trying to find other people who share the same interest in CamperVans and go on joined adventures. Born is 🚐 www.loveyourcamper.com 🚐 => A CamperVan Platform to connect like-minded Vanlifers from all around the globe ➖➖➖ How to join loveyourcamper? ➖➖➖ ✔ Register on the platform ✔ Enter some details about you and your CamperVan ✔ Place your Vanlife Profile on the worldmap ✔ Discover other Vanlifers in your area ✔ Connect, Follow and Message :-) ➖➖➖ Features of the Platform ➖➖➖ The platform is constantly developing but the basic functionalities are already in place: register profiles, utilize maps as well as follow and message other vanlifers. ➖➖➖ The Development Process ➖➖➖ I pretty much started from scratch trying to learn modern web development. I used some online learning platform like coursera and udemy to focus on the MEAN Stack. Loveyourcamper is purely built with Angular 5 + Firebase. The MVP of loveyourcamper took approximately 4 month to finish. I build it on weekends and looong nights after work. Angular has been quite a tough ride form creating a basic running application to working with promises, observables and all the typescript oddities. Connecting Firebase as a backend application was rather an easy process. I can highly recommend Firebase to utilize its features like Authentication, Database Technology (Cloud Firestore), Hosting and Cloud Storage. I am pretty sure that the backend can scale to millions of Vanlifers; my front-end might break tough 🤪 In terms of design: I did underestimate the difficulty of mobile development -> I should have started mobile first. Let me know what you think of the application! It's still an early version so be aware of all the bugs and easter eggs 🐣🐣 Happy Vanlifeing, Andre & Oscar