PU Selection
King, Queen, Prince & Princess—fair ballots, judge weighting, and a floor that stays on schedule.
A web platform that streamlines standout student selection across majors: transparent voting, judge workflows, reusable event rooms, and archives that stay reserved for institutional memory—all tuned for high-traffic open nights.
Scale
2,500+
Peak visitors
Engineered for burst traffic during live voting—static-friendly delivery, disciplined client cache, and operator tooling that does not fight the clock.
Brief
PU Selection digitizes a longstanding campus tradition: elevating students across majors into ceremonial roles. The product has to feel festive for attendees while remaining strict for auditors—every vote and judge score needs a paper trail without slowing the show.
Next.js anchors the experience; Clerk gates privileged routes; Prisma speaks MongoDB with type-safe models; Zod guards every mutation; TanStack Query keeps the UI responsive as rounds advance; UploadThing covers rich media; Vercel hosts the whole stack at the edge.
Product pillars
Fair, fast, repeatable
Role-based voting
Separate flows for public ballots and judge scoring so weighting stays explicit and auditable.
Media pipeline
UploadThing-backed storage for candidate imagery—fast uploads, predictable URLs, and admin-friendly handling.
Rounds & control
Admin tooling to open and close rounds, align the event schedule, and keep the floor on-script.
Rooms & archive
Reusable room templates for recurring events plus archive reservation so history stays organized.
Interface
Screens & flows
Stack
Tools & services
Delivery
What had to land for opening night
- Built for peak traffic—2,500+ concurrent visitors during voting windows without turning the UI into a bottleneck.
- Clerk-authenticated surfaces with clear separation between voters, judges, and operators.
- Zod-validated inputs end to end; Prisma + MongoDB for resilient document-style workloads.
- TanStack Query for snappy client cache behavior where every round change must feel instant.
- UploadThing integration for candidate media—predictable delivery on Vercel’s edge footprint.
Repository & demo
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