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Stepping
Autonomous source-to-exploit research. One rule: nothing gets reported unless a deterministic test could reproduce it.
What it is
Stepping is a community app for Chicago stepping, the smooth partner dance from Chicago's West and South sides. It puts one organized place behind what is currently scattered across group chats, flyers, and social posts: sets, weekenders, classes, DJs, promoters, stepping groups, video, and per-city travel information for people heading out of town.
Chicago is the flagship city. Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Charlotte, and Washington DC follow.
Why city-first structure matters
Stepping is a regional culture with real differences between scenes, and a national feed flattens exactly the thing people are looking for. Organizing by city first, then by event type, matches how people actually plan: they want to know what is happening where they are, or where they are traveling to next month.
The travel information is the piece that does not exist anywhere else. A stepper visiting another city currently has to know somebody there.
Stack
Next.js with the App Router, tRPC and Zod for typed end-to-end contracts, Drizzle for schema, and Postgres with PostGIS for geospatial queries. Auth and storage through the same platform. Video delivery is planned for a later phase. Monorepo with a package manager and build orchestrator suited to a shared front end and API surface.
Web first, then iOS and Android.