KÖA

The problem

KÖA needed a public site that could carry event listings, artist profiles, and video content for an LA nightlife brand, editable by non-technical staff without a developer in the loop for every update.

Constraints

• Content changes weekly — events, lineups, flyers — and needed a real CMS workflow, not hardcoded pages.
• Video content (artist sets, event recaps) needed a hosting solution that didn't mean self-managing encoding and delivery.
• The site had to launch on a realistic timeline for a small nightlife brand, which ruled out building a CMS from scratch.

What I built

A Next.js 14 site on the SanityPress starter, with a custom Sanity document model for event, artist, and venue content carrying relational references between them, flyers, and Mux-powered video galleries. GROQ queries drive the artist grids and event listings across 12 routes and 175 TS/TSX files.

Architecture

Sanity CMS is the content source of truth, queried via GROQ and rendered through Next.js App Router pages. Relational references between event, artist, and venue documents let one artist profile surface correctly across every event it's linked to, rather than duplicating artist data per event.

Decisions and tradeoffs

Outcome

KÖA is the only production project in this portfolio with publicly readable source code and a clickable live URL outside mortgage fintech — proof of range, and the one project a visiting engineer can actually click into.