Solo dev builds free concert tracker with 13 languages and 11,000 prerendered pages

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A solo developer built Gigvault, a free concert diary app, starting in January 2025 after growing frustrated with tracking live shows via spreadsheets. The app runs on iOS, Android, and the web from a single React codebase using Capacitor, with Supabase handling the backend. Gigvault stores every act at an event as its own logged set, enabling detailed stats across openers and festival lineups, not just headliners. The platform supports 13 languages with fully complete locale files and prerenders over 11,000 public entity pages at build time for SEO visibility. Features include a rolling 'Concert Wrapped,' a mutual-only friends system, setlist data from a 9.9 million-entry database, and private photo and note logging per show.

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