Work / Mounds of Anchorage
Community app
Mounds of Anchorage
A geo-tagged community platform for tracking Anchorage's seasonal snow mounds — user auth, image storage, and interactive mapping, built from a simple idea in a matter of days.
See the map →The problem
Anchorage public works piles up massive snow mounds every winter, and locals have a genuine fascination with them — but nobody was tracking or sharing them. The idea was small and specific, and the real test was whether a real, multi-feature app could be shipped fast enough to catch the season.
What we built
We built a geo-tagged community platform: users sign up, photograph a mound, and drop it on an interactive map with location and imagery. It required real infrastructure — authentication, image storage, and geo-mapping — delivered as a polished consumer app rather than a toy.
Timeline
Idea to live, multi-feature app in a matter of days.
Stack
Outcome
- Full auth, storage, and mapping shipped in days
- A real consumer app from a deliberately small idea
- Demonstrates how fast a scoped concept can reach production
Questions
How long did Mounds of Anchorage take to build?
From idea to a live, multi-feature app in a matter of days — including user authentication, image storage, and interactive geo-mapping.
Why build an app about snow mounds?
It's a real local fascination in Anchorage and a deliberately small idea — which made it a perfect demonstration of how quickly a scoped concept can reach production as a polished app.