← The shelf
Royal Sounds
Escaped the labA real business runs on this: quote requests for an event-AV company — weddings, DJ rigs, dry ice, sparklers — flowing into a staff dashboard.
✳ How it actually works
FIG 1 · one quote, animated — submit, queue, ping, quoted
FIG 2 · the machinery — quote form → database + notification → staff dashboard
The story
Client work: an event-entertainment company that rents sound, lighting, and effects needed quote requests to stop living in text messages. Customers pick an event type, venue, date, and equipment packages — DMX lighting, dry ice, projectors, photo booth — and submit.
Requests land in MongoDB and fire an email notification; staff log in through NextAuth and work the queue from a dashboard. Unglamorous, deployed, and used — the kind of software that quietly runs a small business.