StudioSync was born out of listening to Bethany talk about how she manages her students and bands while teaching. It seemed much harder than I thought it needed to be. I wanted a solution that could be used by not only her, but her students and bands as well.
I started out trying to find another solution. I found a couple, but they either weren’t open source (sketch) or didn’t check enough of the boxes to warrant using. I thought about taking an existing ERP solution and converting it to my needs. Unfortunately, the needs of suits and musicians are two vastly different things.
I picked her brain one night in December to see what she would want and got to work on it.
It uses Next.js and Django all with custom built modules (which works as its own ERP solution now). It uses 0 outside dependencies and only 3 for the development and testing. I’m genuinely proud of this. I’ve been dabbling in Swift a bit lately and, my god, the dependencies.
I would really like this project to be a primary focus of mine and would love to see people use and enjoy it.