909 events aggregated
76 towns covered
17 towns with live automated feeds
Travel & Local Discovery
GardaDay
GardaDay aggregates events around Lake Garda, designed to be immediate and effortless for tourists in a rush and older visitors alike.
I designed and built it end-to-end, from architecture to interface to the automated pipeline behind it.
Platform
Web
Focus
Zero-to-one Product, IA, SEO, GEO
Tools
Claude Code, VS Code, Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres
Impact
Methods
Municipium RSS scraper + Postgres pipeline
Claude Code + VS Code for the full build
Moderated submissions with admin queue
Iterated on real feedback from local networks
Fragmentation
Lake Garda hosts thousands of events a year; scattered across sites, PDFs, and Facebook pages, with no single place to see what’s on nearby.
I built a scraping pipeline that normalizes it all into one schema, with Claude parsing formats, flagging duplicates, and running unattended.
Information Architecture: Day, Town, Category
A flat list breaks down fast at this scale. Navigation runs on three axes instead: Day, Town, Category.
The browsing stays fast, no matter how many events pile up. Built mobile-first for someone scanning on the street, not sitting at a desk.
Individual events rotate through evergreen pages like Events in Desenzano, so the architecture doubles as the SEO strategy.
What I Learned
Product design today isn’t just about interfaces; sourcing and structuring the data matter as much as any screen.
GardaDay is the project where I found the problem, built the product, and shipped it myself, end to end.