Dancernotes (2020)

Inspiration

Dancernotes emerged from a personal need that propelled me into the world of web development. As a parent of competitive dancers attending multiple studios, I encountered the challenge of managing a flood of emails and texts containing critical information regarding our children's dances, costumes, and events. This inspired me to work on an application that could consolidate all of this data from multiple sources and dance studios into a single source of truth. Developed over years of dedication, through various iterations and learning curves, I take pride in Dancernotes, a platform that has simplified the lives of dance parents, including many of our friends, by providing a centralized source for all their children's dance-related information.

Features

Dancernotes serves dual roles: it acts as an information management tool for dance parents and a content management system for dance studios. It consolidates information about classes, apparel, costumes, music, choreography, rehearsals, and events into one accessible location. Parents have the option to input data manually or connect with participating studios for real-time updates, class enrollments, and more, facilitating the management of multiple dancers and studios effortlessly.

Evolution

Dancernotes has evolved from a static page written in vanilla Javascript that used local storage to tailor the user's experience to a fully functional dynamic web application with user accounts and user generated content.

Unfortunately, this version has since been decommissioned due to its reliance on the now-retired Prism ORM v1. An updated version of Dancernotes is under development. Learn more at the updated Dancernotes page.

Corey Hayden