Designed and built a full-featured online community platform for authors, editors, and readers from the ground up
Developed a custom membership system with tiered access control, feature flags, seat packs, and billing
Built a writing challenges system with submission management, a peer voting engine, live countdown timers, automatic status transitions, and winner selection with points rewards
Created a writing races feature with a real-time race clock, UTC-synced timers, and clock-skew correction for accurate cross-timezone countdowns
Implemented a chapters/feedback system allowing authors to share work-in-progress and receive structured reader feedback
Built user profiles, membership tier display, and activity tracking
Developed a gamification layer, including a custom leaderboard with podium display, rank badges, and live balance queries
Wrote all AJAX handlers, nonce-secured endpoints, and front-end JavaScript for real-time UI interactions across the platform
Handled all CSS with a consistent brand design system across dozens of custom components
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