Plotting (motorcycle) events on Google Maps

Sometimes the best projects don’t have names—they have purpose. This mobile web application became my technical proving ground, a place to experiment with emerging technologies while solving a real problem: where should I go this weekend?

The concept was simple but useful: plot upcoming events geographically to inspire spontaneous road trips. Instead of searching by destination, users could see what’s happening around them—festivals, concerts, markets—and let those pins on the map guide their direction. Built on .NET Core Razor Pages with Azure SQL on the backend and Bootstrap, JavaScript, and Google Maps API on the frontend, it merged robust architecture with intuitive exploration.

The irony? Google Maps eventually built this exact feature into their app. But that’s the nature of personal projects—sometimes you’re not building for launch, you’re building to learn, to experiment, and occasionally to predict where the industry is headed.