Friendly Friday Hike (fridayhikes.com)

A women's hiking group was coordinating monthly hikes, RSVPs, and attendance by hand across text threads and email.

A member-facing site with passwordless sign-in, a published season schedule, self-service RSVP that members can change, self-marked attendance history, and automated reminder emails. Admins control roster visibility from a settings toggle rather than needing a code change.

Live with 30 registered members and the full season published for RSVP.

• Problem definition
• Workflow design
• Application development
• Deployment
• Client communication
• Maintenance

1. 01A member enters their email and receives a sign-in link. There is no password to store, reset, or forget.
2. 02The published season schedule lists each hike with date, location, and details. A member sets their RSVP to one of three states and can change it at any time up until the hike.
3. 03After a hike, members mark their own attendance, which builds a personal history without the organizer tracking it by hand.
4. 04Reminder emails go out automatically ahead of each event.
5. 05Organizers control whether the roster is visible to members from a settings toggle.

Built on Lovable with Lovable Cloud handling authentication, the database, and transactional email.

Row-level access rules scope member data so a member reads their own RSVP and attendance records, while organizer views are gated behind a role check rather than a client-side flag.

Roster privacy is a stored setting read at render time, so the client can change it without a deploy.

• Attendance is self-marked, so the history reflects what members report rather than a verified check-in.
• Reminder email delivery depends on the email provider; a member using an aggressive spam filter can miss one.
• The site is built for a single group. Supporting multiple chapters would require a real tenancy model.