When I became an AWS Community Builder, one of the things I was most excited about was getting the opportunity to experiment with AWS.
Let me Introduce .... eventinary.com A Completly free event management software
Like most developers, I had a long list of things I wanted to build. AI applications, serverless projects, agents, APIs — there was no shortage of ideas. The AWS credits made it easier to experiment without constantly thinking about the cost of every service I turned on.
But after a while, I started asking myself a different question.
What if I used those credits to build something that could actually give back to the community?
That question eventually led me to Eventinary.
I've always enjoyed technical meetups and community events. A meetup may only have a few dozen people in a room, but something interesting happens there. Someone learns about a technology for the first time. Someone meets another developer. Someone gets inspired to build something. Someone gives their first technical talk.
The event may last only a few hours, but the impact can last much longer.
Then I started looking at what happens behind the scenes.
Organizers have to create the event, manage registrations and RSVPs, keep track of attendees, coordinate speakers, prepare schedules, communicate updates, and somehow keep everything organized. For larger events, the number of tools and spreadsheets can grow quickly.
I thought, why not build a platform that makes this easier?
That became Eventinary.
At first, it was just another idea. Then I started building it. As the platform grew, I realized I didn't want to build another simple invitation or RSVP website. I wanted to create a proper digital event platform that could support the entire event experience.
Today, Eventinary can help organizers with things like:
- Event creation and digital event pages
- RSVP and attendee registration
- Speaker and session management
- Event schedules and itineraries
- Guest and attendee management
- Event information and updates
- Digital invitations and sharing
- Event discovery and community engagement
- Support for meetups, workshops, conferences, hackathons, and other events
And because I'm an engineer, I also wanted to build it properly.
Not just something that works on my laptop, but a production-grade SaaS platform running on cloud infrastructure, with scalability, security, reliability, monitoring, and cost in mind.
That's where AWS became an important part of the story.
The AWS Community Builder credits gave me the ability to experiment, build, deploy, and learn using real cloud infrastructure. But somewhere along the way, I stopped thinking about the credits as something I had received for myself.
I started thinking of them as something I could turn into value for other people.
That's why I decided to make Eventinary available for technical communities and meetups without charging them for the SaaS platform.
If a developer community wants to organize an AWS meetup, AI meetup, cloud workshop, hackathon, or technical event, they shouldn't have to worry about adding another software subscription just to manage their event.
The idea is simple: I use the resources I received as a community builder to operate the platform, and the platform helps other community builders organize their events.
It's a small way of giving back.
And the more I worked on Eventinary, the more I realized that the technology itself isn't really the most interesting part.
The interesting part is what happens because of it.
Imagine a local developer group organizing an AI meetup. They create the event, add the speakers and sessions, publish the schedule, and collect RSVPs. On the day of the event, developers walk into a room, meet each other, listen to a few talks, ask questions, and maybe leave with a new idea that turns into their next project.
Eventinary is simply helping make that happen.
That's what I like about this project.
As developers, we spend a lot of time thinking about code, architecture, APIs, databases, cloud services, and deployments. Those things are important, but ultimately we're building technology for people.
And sometimes the most meaningful thing we can build isn't something that makes millions of dollars.
Sometimes it's something that helps 50 people get together and learn from each other.
Eventinary is still evolving. There are plenty of features I want to add and many things I can improve. But the reason I started it hasn't changed.
AWS gave me an opportunity to learn and build.
I wanted to use that opportunity to build something that could help others build their communities.
So if you're organizing a technical meetup, developer group, AI event, cloud workshop, hackathon, or community event, take a look at Eventinary:
And if you try it, I'd genuinely love to hear what you think.
Because for me, this isn't just another SaaS project.
It's a simple idea I've come to believe in:
The best way to give back to a community that helped you grow is to build something that helps the next person grow too.
Top comments (0)