HRphotocontest
Photo community · 2003 · Founder, Full-stack
A photography legend.
HRphotocontest is one of Croatia’s largest and longest-running photography communities. Running since 2003, it grew to more than 12,000 photographers, 200,000 photos and close to three million ratings across thousands of Fotomaraton competitions.
What Krnic did
Bringing two decades of photography onto a modern foundation: a Next.js 16 and React app with a bilingual interface and a hand-built design system, passwordless auth with better-auth, AI features through the Vercel AI SDK, and a Drizzle and PostgreSQL data layer that maps the archive of photos, competitions and ratings.
Stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, better-auth, Vercel AI SDK, Drizzle, PostgreSQL