Oct 2023/Fullstack/competition
WaveFarm
WaveFarm was our entry for Srifoton 2023, a national web development competition organized by HMIF Universitas Sriwijaya. I led a team of three. One teammate handled the engineering. Another owned the design and branding. I ran the product. We had weeks to ship a complete, polished application from scratch. The brief was simple: build something useful with web technologies.
We chose weather. Not because it was original, but because it was something everyone needs and most weather apps get wrong. They overload you with charts, maps, and metrics you never asked for. We wanted the opposite. Open the app, know the weather, move on.
The hardest part was deciding what not to build. No accounts. No saved history. No radar maps. Just geolocation or city search, then a clean forecast view. Two pathways. That was it. Every feature we cut was a feature that could ship clean.
We took third place. But the real win was proving that a small team with clear priorities can ship faster than a big team with vague ambitions. Constraints are not limitations. They are design inputs.