Purple Circle

Project brief

Theatres keep audiences coming back with gamified circles, quests and loyalty — not just one-off ticket sales.

Expo / React Native app, Next.js + Mantine admin with an @xyflow quest-chain builder, and a Go (gqlgen) GraphQL backend on PostgreSQL with a River job queue and JWT auth.

Timeline

4 months

Surface

Theatre community platform

Status

2026 · Shipped

Scope

Purple Circle is an audience-engagement platform for Austrian theatres (Graz, Salzburg, Vienna). Members join a theatre’s “Circle”, complete gamified quests (scan QR, attend events), earn badges and collect loyalty stamps. It pairs a React Native mobile app with a Next.js admin console — analytics, a visual quest-chain builder, badges and members — over one Go GraphQL API.

Outcome

Theatres turn ticket buyers into a returning community through gamified circles, quests and loyalty — with member analytics in one console.

Hard part

A node-based visual quest-chain builder, scheduled/relative unlock triggers, and one GraphQL contract serving both a React Native app and a Next admin.