# Next Up Poker Platform for local poker rooms to manage their website and games for members. Role: Founder, product and GTM Stack: Stripe, Astro, Supabase Status: Active ### The problem Local poker rooms run on clipboards, group texts, and a whiteboard for the waitlist. Seating disputes, missed renewals, players calling to ask whether a game's running. The software built for big card rooms is overkill and priced for casinos, not a membership club run by one or two people. ### What I built Next Up Poker puts the whole operation in one place: cash games and tournaments scheduled side by side, a first-come waitlist with SMS alerts when a seat opens, a tournament clock that runs locally so a Wi-Fi drop doesn't kill the game, membership and dues tracking, hourly time tracking for no-rake rooms, and a built-in website where players see live game status and register online. Billing runs through Stripe. It's live, with rooms paying for it. ### What it demonstrates Not every build needs to be an AI product. Sometimes the right answer is solid, unglamorous engineering pointed at a real problem, with a little fun along the way.