DEVSA

Community Platform

The bridge for San Antonio's developer community: 23 community groups on one calendar, backed by 15 partners including Geekdom, Tech Bloc, UTSA, and the PyTexas Foundation.

Client: DEVSA (founder)
Timeline: 2023 – present
Role: Founder & Lead Organizer · Nonprofit
Links: Live site Source

Context

DEVSA started as a Discord server in September 2023 and became a 501(c)(3) six months later. It doesn’t replace San Antonio’s tech groups; it connects them, with one shared calendar and one public directory.

I founded DEVSA and built the platform that runs it. For SA Startup + Tech Week 2026, DEVSA activated 13 events, ran the Give-a-LOT computer donation drive with learnOPENtech, and put 7 speakers on the main stage at Texas Public Radio.

What I built

–Community calendar published as ICS and JSON feeds and an embeddable view
–Organizer admin with superadmin, admin, and organizer roles
–RSVPs with confirmation email and newsletter opt-in
–A weekly Discord digest of upcoming events
–A merch shop on Stripe and Printify, reconciled by a daily job
–A branded sub-site for each DEVSA conference

One source

This codebase runs the community site, organizer admin, .ics + JSON calendar feeds, embeddable calendar, Discord digest, merch shop, and per-page OG images.

Stack

Framework: Next.js 16 App Router · React 19 · a branded sub-site for each conference
Server: Firebase Auth · superadmin, admin, and organizer roles · proxy redirecting the legacy domain
API: Calendar feeds with a vitest contract test · RSVP, donation, and shop checkout routes · Stripe webhook
Data: Firestore · Vercel Blob · sanitize-html on admin rich text
Runtime: Vercel crons: Monday Discord digest, daily Stripe-to-Printify reconcile · BotID on public forms

Design

DEVSA is a bridge, so the design is mostly structure. The tokens define a page shell and its gutters rather than a palette, and the community’s own events bring the color. Each conference (PySA, Access Granted, The Model, More Human) gets its own sub-brand on the same frame. Geist and the full Geist Pixel family keep it legible to the people it’s for: builders.