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Developer Builds Quudos Casting Platform for Talent Agencies on Aurora and Vercel

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A developer built Quudos, an all-in-one casting management platform for talent agencies, after observing the fragmented audition process his 13-year-old daughter navigated as an aspiring actor. Conversations with agencies in New York and Los Angeles confirmed that most still manage talent rosters, submissions, and callbacks manually through spreadsheets and email. The platform was built using a stack of Angular on Vercel for the frontend, NestJS for the API, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless v2 as the primary database, submitted as part of the H0 Hackathon. Aurora's compatibility with standard PostgreSQL allowed the developer to migrate from hosted Postgres by simply updating a connection string, without rewriting application code. Planned features include a casting-director portal, actor-facing free access, AI-powered brief generation, integrated payments, and multi-region scaling via Aurora DSQL.

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