Anı Kutusu

Event-photo platform

A web application where guests upload photos through a QR code and event hosts collect them in a shared gallery.

Anı Kutusu overview: event photography and management platform; venue and event management, QR code media uploads, and shared gallery. — Guest contributions become a shared event gallery.A promotional visual of the web application.

Who is it for?: Event hosts and guests sharing photos
My contribution: Independent project · Full-stack development
Period: Initial version: 2025 · Later moved to a shared Go backend

The need to solve

Event photos are scattered across guests. Participation needs to be simple while uploads and viewing permissions stay scoped to the event.

What it enables

Share a QR link for an event, collect guest photos and view them in a gallery with event-specific access permissions.

What I built

I developed guest photo uploads through a QR code and the event gallery. Within the shared server infrastructure, I implemented rules that restrict photo access to the relevant event’s permissions.

Application screens

Choose a screen to explore the end-to-end flow: from the QR mobile guest experience and OS-adaptive upload forms to venue administration and the shared wedding gallery. Screenshots show the Turkish interface.

Anı Kutusu iOS guest welcome screen showing event title, venue, date details, and name field.

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Guest experience (Mobile)

Event welcome and onboarding (iOS)

Media upload and audio recording (iOS)

Anı Kutusu iOS media upload form with voice message recording and photo gallery picker. — Guests can record up to 5 minutes of live voice wishes or select multiple photos and videos from their photo library.
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Live camera capture (Android)

Anı Kutusu Android interface showing live camera capture button, voice recording, and gallery upload. — On Android devices, the form dynamically adapts to provide direct live camera capture alongside voice messages and gallery selection.
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Secure sharing and quick tips (iOS)

Anı Kutusu iOS secure sharing section with privacy guarantee and upload guidelines. — Guests are reassured that files are privately stored for the hosts, with quick tips on multiple uploads and the 50MB file size limit.
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Venue and event management

Venue management

Event management and details

Event management dashboard for Boğaz Bahçe Davet showing event cards, status badges, and action shortcuts. — Wedding and party events under the selected venue are tracked with dates, duration, and status badges; gallery, sharing, and edit flows are managed directly.
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Media gallery and sharing

Media sharing and QR management

Media Gallery Sharing modal dialog showing gallery URL copy, media upload link, and QR code access guide. — Hosts copy the gallery viewing link and share the QR-code upload link with guests directly from a dedicated sharing dialog.
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Event media gallery (Grid view)

Deniz & Ece Wedding media gallery screen showing uploaded photo cards in a grid, guest badges, and batch download action. — Photos uploaded by guests appear in a responsive card grid with guest attribution tags, file sizes, and batch download options.
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Media gallery (List view)

Explore development details

For readers interested in the technical approach: workflows, technologies and implementation decisions.

How does the process work?

A simple QR guest experience is backed by event scoping, direct object uploads, completion validation and cleanup.

Main flow

Prepare the event and gallery
Create an event-linked gallery and QR sharing link.
Join the event through QR
The guest’s event token determines the upload and gallery-access scope.
Validate the upload intent
Check file type, size and event scope before issuing an upload intent.
Upload the file directly
Use a presigned URL to send the file straight to private MinIO storage, bypassing the application server.
Complete and associate the upload
Validate the object and ownership on completion; associate the media with the event gallery.
Open the gallery with authorized access
Provide media links within the guest token or authorized user-session scope.

Alternative and supporting processes

If an upload remains incomplete

Expire the upload intent
Expired or incomplete upload intents enter the cleanup process.
Clean up orphan objects
Remove objects that were never associated with the gallery through orphan cleanup.

When the event owner accesses the gallery

Verify the session
Validate the event owner’s JWT / OTP session.
Apply the permission scope
The shared backend limits media and gallery access to the user’s permissions.

Guest contributions become a shared event gallery.A schematic illustration of how the product works.

The approach

Built event and gallery management with QR-linked guest media uploads, using event tokens to scope access.
Implemented upload intents, direct uploads to private MinIO through presigned URLs and completion validation; added file-type/size and media-ownership checks.
Implemented OTP/JWT sessions and authorized media access on the backend shared with Mezuniyet Yıllığım; developed cleanup of expired upload intents and orphan objects.

Technologies

Next.js
Go
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
MinIO
Docker Compose