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Wildmate

A place for outdoor crews to find each other, plan the trip, and handle the logistics in one product.

Solo full-stack engineer · product through deployment

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Explore the product

The pages worth opening. Each one is the live product.

HomeFind people, pick a place, plan the outing, then share it.Open pageExploreSix lanes: trails, water, adventure, slow days, hobbies, and drives.Open pageOutingsSearch hikes, paddles, and climbs by hub, activity, and distance.Open pageTrailsPlaces to go, with the stats up front.Open pagePermitsLottery deadlines, closures, and park alerts in one bulletin.Open pagePark kitsA few signature activities per park, then an outing with a crew.Open page

The product

Wildmate is a community product for hikes, paddles, climbs, and similar trips. People discover a trip, join a crew, and coordinate permits, gear, meals, carpools, and cost.

Finding a crew

Trip discovery and crew matching across 15+ US metro hubs, with member approvals before someone is in.

Magic Paste

Paste a messy trip idea and get a structured itinerary with geocoded waypoints. Several model providers sit behind it, so a draft still comes back if one fails.

The day of the trip

Socket.io chat plus shared logistics: gear, meals, carpools, permits, and costs, on the same trip.

How I worked

  1. Made the trip the object everything hangs on: place, crew, permits, and cost.
  2. Built the React frontend and the Express and MongoDB API together, then added real-time chat on that same trip.
  3. Brought Magic Paste in after the core loop worked, with a fallback chain across model providers.

Challenges

A paragraph is not a plan

People describe a trip in a mess of notes. Turning that into waypoints and stops had to fail softly when a model or a geocoder did.

One trip, many writers

Chat, gear, and approvals all change the same trip. The product had to keep those updates about one crew, not a pile of side threads.

Shipping the whole thing

This was the first product I took from the data model through a public deploy, then changed because people used it.

What shipped

Live at wildmate.app

15+ metro hubs, real-time trip coordination, and Magic Paste AI drafting.

  • React 19
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • MongoDB
  • Socket.io
  • Vite