HudsonHapps

Founder & Engineer

Aug 2022Dec 2024

A local discovery platform I founded and built for finding happy hours, restaurant specials, and local deals across Hudson County. Grew to 2,500+ monthly users and 15,000 pageviews.

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Technologies: Next.js, AWS Serverless, MongoDB

HudsonHapps is a local discovery platform I founded and built for finding happy hours, restaurant specials, and local deals across Hudson County, New Jersey.

I owned the product end to end — from discovery and architecture through launch, operations, and growth.

Highlights

  • Reached 2,500+ monthly users and 15,000 pageviews
  • Took the product from concept to production and grew it into a platform with consistent organic traffic
  • Owned product development, architecture, data modeling, deployment, and growth
  • Built a serverless architecture for managing and serving continuously changing local deal inventory

Stack

Built with Next.js, AWS Serverless, and MongoDB.

Tags: Next.js, MongoDB